A slider garage includes an overmolded body, the overmolded body oriented on a zipper, the overmolded body including an overmolded male portion and an overmolded female portion, the overmolded male and female portions positioned on an end of the zipper, such that each is on one side of the zipper, the overmolded male portion being shaped such that it fits in the overmolded female portion in a watertight fashion. Optionally, the zipper includes a male side and a female side, and the overmolded male portion is positioned on the male side of the zipper and the overmolded female portion is positioned on the female side of the zipper.

A single serve, fillable condiment packet for use by an end user to selectively retain and then dispense a desired substance. The single serve condiment packet includes an elongated packet body that has opposing resealable ends, a permanently sealed top edge, and a permanently sealed bottom edge. In one embodiment, each end of the packet body is defined by a conventional zip lock style closure which is individually operative to be opened by pulling apart the elements of the closure and sealed by pressing together the elements of the closure. The top edge is heat sealed and includes a tear notch adjacent to each end, positioned to allow a user to easily open the packet body at a location adjacent to the respective end.

A multi ply plastic film to create a heat-sealed enclosure for food to be heated inside the enclosure save for a region of the heat-seal where a vent-opening can be established to allow gas and/or steam to escape the enclosure during heating of the food. The film has a primary panel to create the enclosure by heat sealing to itself or a separate panel or to a peripheral lip of a container There is also provided a release panel applied to said primary panel to be located intermediate of and to prevent the primary panel being heat-sealed to itself or peripheral lip at the peripheral heat-sealed region for the vent-opening to thereat be established.

A method and apparatus for securing a zipper closure to polymeric film using minimal tension on the zipper closure includes providing first and second tension control loops, an eyemark detector, and a hole punch programmed to punch a hole in the zipper closure upon detection of the eyemark. The zipper closure and the film are supplied to a sealing station at the same speed, and the hole zipper closure is aligned with the eyemark on the film, to result in sealing the strip of zipper closure to the film resulting in minimal wrinkles to the resulting bag.

A zipper tape is in an elongated shape and includes, in a cross-sectional shape, a pair of base strips and engagement portions projecting from surfaces facing each other of the pair of respective base strips, the engagement portions being engageable with each other. At least the engagement portions are each formed of a first biodegradable resin composition having a yield strain of 3.4% or more during a tensile test.

Pouches and assemblies for use in sous vide cooking, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In several embodiments, a sous vide pouch includes a sealable chamber having a sauce for cooking with a food product. The chamber can have a partition that provides a boundary a boundary between a first and second portion of the chamber to receive two food products during a sous vide cooking process. In some embodiments, the sous vide pouch can further include a vacuum valve for removing air from the chamber.

The present disclosure relates to plastic or polymeric container (100) with reclosable zippers or reclosures (10) which make the package child-resistant. In one typical embodiment, this is achieved by a zipper or reclosure (10) including a tab (18) with a tab track (29) that engages with an opposite track (46) on an opposite profile. A user disengages the tab track (29) from the opposite track (46), typically by peeling, in order to open the remainder of the zipper or reclosure (10).

A gusseted stand-up flexible pouch including a pouch-forming structure. The pouch-forming structure including first and second body panels, first and second side gussets, a bottom gusset and at least one interior gusset. The bottom gusset extends between the first and second body panels. Each of the first and second side gussets is joined to the first and second body panels. The at least one interior gusset is joined to the first and second body panels. The at least one interior gusset is located between the first and second side gussets. The at least one interior gusset divides an interior of the stand-up flexible pouch into a plurality of compartments.

Recyclable pouches formed from rollstock and having a resealable closure that extends into both side edges of the pouch may be produced at high speeds on a single manufacturing line in which the pouches are formed, cut apart, filled, and then sealed if the film forming the pouch comprises a recyclable heat seal layer and a second recyclable layer having a melting temperature of at least 30° C. greater than the heat seal layer.

A package with magnetic closure portions. The package can include a first flexible polymeric sidewall and a second flexible polymeric sidewall. The first and second flexible polymeric sidewalls can be joined by opposing first and second sides and a bottom portion and together defining an access opening. A first magnetic region can be disposed on the first sidewall. A second magnetic region can be disposed on the first sidewall. A third magnetic region can be disposed on the second sidewall. A fourth magnetic region can be disposed on the second sidewall. The first and third magnetic regions can be magnetically engageable with a magnetic force to urge at least a portion of the first and second sidewalls into contacting relationship, and the second and fourth magnetic regions can be magnetically engageable with a magnetic force to urge at least a portion of the first and second sidewalls into contacting relationship.