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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2019
Frito-lay Trading Company Gmbh, Bern, CH;
Mike Sharpe, Leicester, GB;
Frito-Lay Trading Company GmbH, Bern, CH;
Abstract
A packaged food that includes a sealed bag defining therein a sealed cavity containing a food, the sealed bag being formed from a flexible packaging film that includes a monoaxially oriented polymeric layer defining a preferential tear direction extending along the film; wherein the packaging film is configured to form first and second elongate tear-away portions of the sealed bag which are on opposite sides of, and adjacent to, an elongate central portion of the sealed bag, the first and second elongate tear-away portions and the elongate central portion extending along the preferential tear direction, whereby tearing away of the first and second elongate tear-away portions along the preferential tear direction to open the sealed bag leaves the elongate central portion forming a handle portion of the opened bag.