Food pouch with integral collar

Claim 1

A flexible pouch having a generally parallelpiped configuration and including a sealed product-containing pocket for a viscous flowable food product and integral collar-forming structure externally of said pocket enabling said pouch to be suspended from an object, said pouch comprising two sheets each constituted of a liquid-impervious laminated flexible material including a plastic film web arranged to provide two superimposed facing plastic film webs, seals extending about three edges of said pouch for adhering said plastic film webs of said laminated material to each other, a further seal extending in parallel with the unsealed edge and being offset relative to said edge, said sealed pocket being located intermediate said seals, and a surface area of said pouch being located intermediate said pocket and the unsealed edge; a pair of parallel space continuous slits extending through at least one of said sheets of laminated material in said surface area and extending in parallel with the unsealed edge whereby separation of the laminated material sheets along said continuous slits provides a loop-like strip constituting sid collar structure.