Food package

Claim 1

A PACKAGE WHICH CONSISTS OF A STACK OF RELATIVELY THIN SLICES OF MEAT ARRANGED TO FORM AN UPRIGHT MASS, SAID PACKAGE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION WITH SAID PRODUCT A WRAPPER OF TRANSPARENT MATERIAL WHICH IS DRAPED OVER ONE END OF THE PRODUCT IN SNUG ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TOP END AND ADJOINING SIDE WALLS THEREOF, SAID WRAPPER CONSISTING OF A RELATIVELY THIN PLIABLE TRANSPARENT PLASTIC FILM MATERIAL, AN OPEN ENDED BAND MEMBER IN THE FORM OF A TUBULAR SECTION OF A CONTINUOUS PLASTIC MATERIAL WHICH IS RELATIVELY THIN, SLIGHTLY STRETCHABLE AND ADAPTED TO BE COLD WORKED WITHOUT RUPTURE, SAID BAND MEMBER HAVING MEMBER BEING RELATIVELY NARROW AND BEING TELESCOPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WRAPPER AND ENCLOSED PRODUCT AT ONE END ONLY THEREOF, THEREBY TO EXPOSE THE OTHER END OF THE PRODUCT INCLUDING SUBSTNTIAL PORTIONS OF THE SIDE WALLS THEREOF, AND A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT RIGID METAL DISK CLOSING THE OPEN END OF SAID WRAPPER AND SUPPORTING THE ADJOINING END OF THE PRODUCT, SAID WRAPPER HAVING ITS MARGINS REVERSELY FOLDED ABOUT THE OUTER END EDGES OF SAID BAND MEMBER, AND SAID METAL DISK HAVING ITS MARGINAL EDGES IN TIGHTLY COILED DOUBLE SEAM FORMING RELATION WITH THE MARGINAL EDGES OF SAID WRAPPER AND WITH END EDGES OF SAID BAND MEMBER, WHERBY TO ENCLOSE THE PRODUCT IN HERMETICALLY SEALED RELATION IN THE PACKAGE.