Packaging design with separate compartments

Abstract

A gum packaging design that utilizes two separate compartments, an upper compartment and a lower compartment. Each of the compartments may be formed from a separate paperboard blank. The blanks are folded to form the compartments and then the lower compartment is adhered to the upper compartment in a fashion that allows the lower compartment to be later separated therefrom by tearing along a perforation after the lower compartment is emptied. A cover flap on the upper compartment can be used to hold the package in a compact, closed position by folding the compartments to face each other and tucking an end into a receiving slot formed in the back panel of the lower compartment. Once the lower compartment is separated from the upper compartment, the same cover flap can be used to close the remaining package by tucking the same end of the cover flap into a receiving slot formed in a front panel of the upper compartment.

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         58 . A package assembly for accommodating consumable products, said package assembly comprising: 
 a package housing for supporting said consumable products in a first and second plurality;    one of said first and second pluralities being removable from the other of said first and second pluralities supported in said package.    
     
     
         59 . A package assembly of  claim 58  wherein said first and second pluralities define first and second arrays of said products.  
     
     
         60 . A package assembly of  claim 59  wherein at least one of said arrays includes a band surrounding said products of said array.  
     
     
         61 . A package assembly of  claim 59  wherein at least one of said arrays includes a sheet surrounding said products of said array.  
     
     
         62 . A package assembly of  claim 61  wherein said sheet is an open ended U-shaped member.  
     
     
         63 . A package assembly of  claim 61  wherein said sheet is adhesively secured to said package.  
     
     
         64 . A package assembly of  claim 63  wherein said package housing includes an interior wall surface and wherein said sheet is adhesively secured to said interior wall surface.  
     
     
         65 . A package assembly of  claim 64  wherein said sheet and said products are adhesively secured to said interior wall surface.  
     
     
         66 . A package assembly of  claim 58  wherein said housing includes a first and second compartments for accommodating respectively said first and second pluralities, said second compartment being removably detachable from said first compartment.  
     
     
         67 . A package assembly of  claim 65  including said array of products being removable from said compartments.  
     
     
         68 . A package assembly of  claim 59  wherein said package housing includes a housing interior for supporting at least one of said first and second pluralities and an opening for accessing said one of said first and second pluralities; and 
 a flap for overlying said opening, said flap being movable from an open condition to a closed condition.    
     
     
         69 . A package assembly of  claim 68  wherein said housing includes a slot for removably accommodating said flap in said closed condition.  
     
     
         70 . A package assembly of  claim 69  wherein said slot is skewed.  
     
     
         71 . A package assembly of  claim 68  wherein said flap overlies said first and second arrays of said products in said closed condition.  
     
     
         72 . A package assembly of  claim 59  wherein said package housing includes an interior and wherein first and second arrays of said product are adhesively secured in said package interior.  
     
     
         73 . A package assembly of  claim 72  wherein said first and second arrays are unsecured to each other.  
     
     
         74 . A package assembly of  claim 72  wherein said first array of said products is adhered to said interior wall surface and said second array of products is separately adhered to said interior wall surface.  
     
     
         75 . A package assembly of  claim 74  wherein said first array of said products is separable from said second array of said products.  
     
     
         76 . A package for containing at least two arrays of consumable products, each said array including a plurality of said consumable products adjacently arranged, said package comprising: 
 a package housing for separately supporting said product arrays so as to permit removal of one of said arrays from the other said array; and    a flap cover for enclosing said product arrays, said flap cover being openable to permit removal of said one array and reclosable to enclose said other array.    
     
     
         77 . A package of  claim 76  wherein each said array is removably adhered to said package housing.  
     
     
         78 . A package of  claim 77  further including a sheet surrounding each array.  
     
     
         79 . A package of  claim 78  wherein each said sheet is adhered to said package housing.  
     
     
         80 . A package of  claim 76  wherein said flap includes an end insertable into a slot on said housing for closing said flap.  
     
     
         81 . A package of  claim 80  wherein said end of said flap is laterally asymmetrical and wherein said slot of said housing is offset toward one side to be in position to receive said end of said flap.  
     
     
         82 . A package for containing at least two arrays of consumable products, each said array including a plurality of said consumable products adjacently arranged, said package comprising: 
 a package housing for supporting at least one of said at least two arrays;    at least another of said two arrays being attached to a housing portion which is removable from said housing.    
     
     
         83 . A package of  claim 82  wherein said at least two said arrays are unsecured to each other.  
     
     
         84 . A package of  claim 82  further including a flap cover for enclosing said product arrays.  
     
     
         85 . A package for containing at least two arrays of consumable products, each said array including a plurality of said consumable products adjacently arranged, said package comprising: 
 a package housing for supporting said at least two arrays;    said arrays being unsecured to each other;    one of said arrays being removable from said other array; and    a flap closure for enclosing said housing supporting said at least tow arrays and with said one array being removed.    
     
     
         86 . A package of claim  20  wherein said housing includes a slot for receiving an end of said flap.