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Different products are hermetically sealed in separate but integrally adjoining packages to form package pairs or what might be called “dual”packages. All of the packages are made from two continuous sheets of plastic packaging material, and the separate packages of each pair are differentially-cond

Different products are hermetically sealed in separate but integrally adjoining packages to form package pairs or what might be called “dual”packages. All of the packages are made from two continuous sheets of plastic packaging material, and the separate packages of each pair are differentially-conditioned by differential evacuation and/or gassing to different pressure levels. A continuous series of filled side-by-side containers formed from one sheet of packaging material is conveyed in two parallel rows into a sealing region where a cover sheet is laid over the containers to form packages. A group of the packages is stopped in the sealing region, and are clamped and partially sealed around the peripheries of the individual packages. The individual side-by-side units of the package pairs are differentially conditioned as to vacuum pressure or gas pressure or composition through aligned openings between adjacent containers in each of the parallel rows. The aligned openings and the remainder of the peripheries around the package then are sealed, and the completed package pairs are removed from the sealing region. The differential conditioning of the package pairs may be by way of differential evacuation, or evacuation followed by back-filling the packages with different pressures of gas, or other combinations.

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The method of packaging different products in the respective individual packages of integrally adjoining package pairs, the package pairs being differentially-conditioned while the individual packages of the pair are completed at the same time, said method comprising the steps of; conveying a contin

The method of packaging different products in the respective individual packages of integrally adjoining package pairs, the package pairs being differentially-conditioned while the individual packages of the pair are completed at the same time, said method comprising the steps of; conveying a continuous series of filled-containers in at least two parallel rows and wherein pairs of adjacent containers are filled with different products; covering said containers to form packages; moving a group of said packages into a sealing region, said group including at least one integrally adjoining package pair formed with one of said pairs of adjacent containers; clamping and initially partially sealing each of said group of packages around the peripheries thereof; differentially-conditioning the interiors of the individual packages of said one adjoining pair of packages through respective evacuation openings leading into the package interiors; sealing said openings to effect a final seal of the individual packages of said pair of packages in their differentially-conditioned state; and removing said sealed packages from said sealing region.