Reclosable integral package

Claim 1

AN INTEGRAL PACKAGE FABRICATED FROM A SINGLE PIECE OF MOLDABLE AND FLEXIBLE SHEET MATERIAL, SAID PACKAGE COMPRISING A BODY HAVING A GENERALLY FLAT BOTTOM AND UPWARDLY EXTENDING SIDE WALLS BOUNDING AND INTEGRAL WITH SAID BOTTOM, SAID SIDE WALLS TERMINATING AT THEIR UPPER EDGES IN A COMMON PLANE PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF SAID BOTTOM, AN OUTWARDLY EXTENDING BODY SHELF EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY AROUND AND INTEGRAL WITH SAID SIDE WALLS AT SAID PLANE OF TERMINATION, AND UPWARDLY EXTENDING BODY MARGIN AT THE OUTER EDGES OF SAID SHELF, AND A FLAT BODY FLANGE INTEGRAL WITH SAID BODY MARGIN AND LYING GENERALLY IN A PLANE PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF SAID BODY BOTTOM, SAID BODY FLANGE BEING SPACED FROM SAID BODY SHELF BY SAID BODY MARGIN, SAID BODY MARGIN BEING UPWARDLY CONVERGENT WHEREBY A FIRST HORIZONTAL OPENING BETWEEN JOINING CORNERS OF SAID BODY MARGIN AND SAID BODY FLANGE IS SMALLER IN PLAN THAN A SECOND HORIZONTAL OPENING BETWEEN CORRESPONDING JOINING CORNERS OF SAID BODY MARGIN AND SAID SHELF; A HINGE INTEGRAL WITH SAID BODY FLANGE ALONG ONE SIDE OF SAID PACKAGE; AND A COVER FOR SAID BODY, SAID COVER INCLUDING A CENTRAL RECESS COMPRISING A FLAT BOTTOM AND A CONTINUOUS, UPWARDLY EXTENDING COVER MARGIN, SAID COVER MARGIN MATING INTO SAID BODY MARGIN AND HAVING AN OUTSIDE HORIZONTAL DIMENSION GREATER THAN THE CORRESPONDING DIMENSION OF SAID FIRST HORIZONTAL OPENING AND A FLAT COVER FLANGE INTEGRAL WITH SAID COVER MARGIN AND EXTENDING AROUND SAID CENTRAL RECESS, ONE SIDE OF SAID COVER FLANGE BEING ADJACENT TO AND INTEGRAL WITH SAID HINGE, AND THE OPPOSITE PARALLEL SIDE OF SAID COVER FLANGE HAVING A WIDTH GREATER THAN THE WIDTH OF THE SIDE OF SAID BODY FLANGE OPPOSITE FROM SAID HINGE, SAID PARTS OF SAID FLANGES BEING ALIGNED ALONG A LINE NORMAL TO SAID HINGE; WHEREBY WHEN SAID COVER IS SWUNG OVER SAID BODY BY FLEXURE OF SAID HINGE AND PRESSED DOWNWARDLY INTO CLOSING RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID BODY WITH SAID COVER NESTED IN SAID BODY MARGIN THE OUTERMOST EDGE OF SAID OPPOSITE AND PARALLEL SIDE OF SAID COVER FLANGE EXTENDS OUTWARDLY BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE CONTACTING SIDE OF SAID BODY FLANGE FORMING AN OVERHANGING LIP FOR GRASPING IN ORDER TO PEEL SAID COVER AWAY FROM SAID BODY.