GUM SLAB PACKAGE HAVING INSERTABLE PRODUCT RETENTION MEMBER

• Main Author: ALDRIDGE ALLEN SYDNEY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.04.2010
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS,e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES,DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKAGES; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; STORING; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a product package maintaining remaining products even after removal of one of products. SOLUTION: A package assembly 10 encloses a plurality of individual elongate consumable products. The package assembly includes a plurality of products aligned in a side-by-side array 12. A package housing 16 encloses the array of product. The package housing has front and back walls 18 and 20 for supporting the products therebetween and a closeable cover for closing a product dispensing opening 28. The package housing further includes a frictional product retention member insertably supported within the package for frictionally retaining the array of product within the package. The frictional product retention member includes an extending element to engage with the product. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT