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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Sarah M. Drewery, Hursley, GB;
Michael J. Fish, Hursley, GB;
Colin I. Holyoake, Hursley, GB;
Keira L. Hopkins, Hampshire, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A packaging product and a method of closing a packaging product are provided. Closing a packaging product may include providing a first member of the packaging product having an aperture therein and providing a bubble rivet extending through the aperture and having an expanded hollow head portion on one side of the aperture with a neck portion of the bubble rivet being provided in the aperture. The hollow head portion of the bubble rivet is breakable to enable withdrawal of the head portion through the aperture thereby non-reversibly opening the packaging product.