Tetrahedral container

Claim 1

A FILLED PACKAGE COMPRISING A LENGTH OF TUBING FORMED FROM A WEB OF FLEXIBLE PACKAGING MATERIAL WHICH IS HEAT-SEALABLE ON ONE FACE, SAID WEB BEING FORMED INTO THE TUBING WITH ITS SAID ONE FACE ON THE INSIDE OF THE TUBING AND WITH SIDE MARGINS OF THE WEB IN INSIDE-FACETO-INSIDE-FACE ENGAGEMENT AND HEAT-SEALED TOGETHER THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF THE TUBING TO FORM AN INSIDEFACE-TO-INSIDE-FACE EXTERNAL LONGITUDINAL SEAM FOR THE TUBING ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE TUBING, SAID TUBING BEING TRANSVERSELY FLATTENED AT EACH END AND HAVING ITS OPPOSITE WALLS AT ITS ENDS HEAT-SEALED TOGETHER IN INSIDEFACE-TO-INSIDE-FACE RELATION AT SAID ENDS TO FORM FLAT INSIDE-FACE-TO-INSIDE-FACE END SEALS FOR THE TUBING, SAID END SEALS LYING IN PLANES WHICH EXTEND LONGITUDINALLY WITH RESPECT TO THE TUBING AND AT SUCH AN ANGLE TO ONE ANOTHER THAT THE PACKAGE HAS THE SHAPE OF TETRAHEDRON WITH FOUR TRIANGULAR FACES AND FOUR LONGITUDINAL EDGES CONSTITUTING THE SIDES OF SAID TRIANGULAR FACES, EACH EDGE EXTENDING FROM A RESPECTIVE END OF ONE THE PACKAGE FROM A POINT INTEROF THE OTHER END SEAL, SAID EXTERNAL LONGITUDINAL SEAM EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF THE PACKAGE FROM A POINT INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS OF ONE END SEAL ON THE OUTSIDE OF A FIRST OF SAID TRIANGULAR FACES TO A POINT INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS OF ONE OF THE LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF THE PACKAGE CONSTITUTING ONE OF THE SIDES OF SAID FIRST TRIANGULAR FACE AND ALSO CONSTITUTING ONE OF THE SIDES OF SECOND TRIANGULAR FACE OF THE PACKAGE ADJACENT SAID FIRST TRIANGULAR FACE, AND EXTERNAL LONGITUDINAL SEAM INTERSECTING SAID ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE AT AN OBLIQUE ANGLE AND THEN ANGLING AND TWISTING AROUND SAID ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE TO SAID SECOND TRIANGULAR FACE AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF THE PACKAGE ON THE OUTSIDE OF SAID SECOND TRIANGULAR FACE TO A POINT INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS OF THE OTHER END SEAL OF THE PACKAGE SAID EXTERNAL LONGITUDINAL SEAM BEING FOLDED OVER AND LYING SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT ON THE OUTSIDE OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND TRIANGULAR FACES AND SAID END SEALS AND BEING CONSTRAINED TO LIE SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT ON THE OUTSIDE OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND TRIANGULAR FACES AND SAID END SEALS BY THE ANGLING AND TWISTING THEREOF AROUND SAID ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF THE PACKAGE.