Appeal No. 2004-0996
Application No. 09/520,947
25. A method for packaging a loaf of bread, which method
comprises:
feeding the loaf through an open first end of an inner
preformed bag having a closed second end opposite the first end,
the closed second end of the inner preformed bag having bag-
weakening opening means for enabling access to the loaf by a
consumer through the second end of the inner bag;
closing the first end of the inner bag and heat shrinking the
inner bag to closely encircle the loaf;
inserting the heat shrunk inner bag and enclosed loaf endwise,
second end last, through an open end of a preformed outer bag which
outer bag has a closed end opposite the open end, the open end of
the outer bag being configured for closing and for reopening by a
consumer, but the closed end of the outer bag not being configured
for opening by a consumer; and
closing the open end of the outer bag such that the bag-
weakening opening means is presented to a consumer upon reopening
of the open end of the outer bag, without providing bag-weakening
opening means in the closed end of the outer bag and without
exposing the first end of the inner preformed bag at the reopened
end of the outer bag.
32. A packaged product comprising a loaf of bread snugly
enclosed in an inner heat shrunk bag having a preformed closed end
and a gathered, previously open end opposite the preformed closed
end, such heat shrunk inner bag and enclosed loaf being contained
within a separate outer bag having a closed first end and an
openable second end, the preformed closed end of the heat shrunk
inner bag being adjacent to the openable end of the outer bag and
such closed end of the heat shrunk inner bag having bag-weakening
means for manual opening of the inner bag by a consumer, the
second end of the outer bag being configured for opening by a
consumer but the closed first end of the outer bag not being
configured for opening by a consumer, and the inner bag being
disposed within the outer bag with the preformed closed end of the
inner bag adjacent to the openable second end of the outer bag and
the gathered end of the inner bag remote from the openable second
end of the outer bag.
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