Carriable shipping bag and carriable shipping bag system for textile products
AssigneeMettler Packaging LLC
InventorRene Donner
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Abstract
A carriable shipping bag contains a closable floor opening and an opening for a clothes hanger hook in the top shipping bag edge. The shipping bag further comprises a carrying device secured in some cases to or forming part of the front or back plastic film wall. Additionally, a carriable shipping bag system includes a carriable shipping bag of the present disclosure and a textile product protective cover, wherein in the top bag edge an opening for a clothes hanger hook is present. The shipping bag and the shipping bag system can be used for the transportation or shipment of textile products, such as for online sales of textile products, wherein in some cases the textile product is already placed on a clothes hanger.
Claims24
A carriable shipping bag containing a closable bottom opening with a front plastic film wall and a back plastic film wall, each with opposing side edges, a upper edge and a lower edge,
- wherein the front plastic film wall and the back plastic film wall are connected with one another or merge into one another as one piece along their corresponding side edges at least in sections to form opposing first and second bag edges and/or wherein the front plastic film wall and the back plastic film wall are connected with one another via a first side wall or first side wall sections and/or via an opposing second side wall or second side wall sections,
- wherein the front plastic film wall and the back plastic film wall are connected with one another along their corresponding upper edges directly or indirectly or merge into one another as one piece and form a upper shipping bag edge,
- wherein the lower edge of the back plastic film wall extends beyond the lower edge of the front plastic film wall and wherein this section of the back plastic film wall extending beyond the lower edge of the front plastic film wall has on its inside at least one first adhesive area, which extends or is spaced apart from one side edge in the direction of or as far as the opposing side edge, wherein this section of the back plastic film wall is designed and configured to be secured to the outside of the front or back plastic film wall folding over and/or via the at least one adhesive area, to close the bottom opening, and
- wherein the upper shipping bag edge has a pass through opening,
- the shipping bag further comprising at least one carrying device secured to or as part of the front and/or back plastic film wall and/or secured to the opposing side edges of the front and/or back plastic film wall and/or secured to the first and second bag edges,
- wherein the front plastic film wall and the back plastic film wall are based on a continuous section of a plastic film, wherein the upper shipping bag edge is an integral one-piece component of said continuous section of the plastic film,
- wherein the carriable shipping bag further comprises:
- spaced apart from the first adhesive area, and spaced further apart from the lower edge of the back plastic film wall than the first adhesive area, at least one second adhesive area on the inside on the section of the back plastic film wall extending beyond the lower edge of the front plastic film wall, wherein this second adhesive area extends or is spaced apart from one side edge in the direction of or as far as the opposing side edge and wherein the bottom opening is closable by the second adhesive area by securing to the outside of the back plastic film wall, and
- a weakened zone arranged between the first adhesive area and the lower edge of the back plastic film wall, wherein the first adhesive area runs substantially parallel to the lower edge, and/or to a weakened zone arranged between the first and the second spaced-apart adhesive areas, wherein the second adhesive area runs substantially parallel to the first adhesive area,
- wherein the shipping bag, in folded form, has n folding portions, folded along folding region(s), extending from or extending spaced apart from one side edge in the direction of or as far as the opposing side edge, wherein n=2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8, and wherein the folding region(s) run substantially parallel to the upper shipping bag edge and/or the lower edge of the back plastic film wall and/or the lower edge of the front plastic film wall,
- wherein:
- a) the at least one carrying device forms part of or is secured to the folding portion which contains the section of the back plastic film wall extending beyond the lower edge of the front plastic film wall, or
- b) the at least one carrying device forms part of or is secured to the folding portion which is adjacent to the folding portion which contains the section of the back plastic film wall extending beyond the lower edge of the front plastic film wall, or
- c) the at least one carrying device forms part of or is secured to the folding region which is present between the folding portion which contains the section of back plastic film wall extending beyond the lower edge of the front plastic film wall, and the folding portion adjacent to this, or
- d) the at least one carrying device forms part of or is secured to the folding region adjacent to the folding region according to feature c) above, and
- wherein the at least one first and/or second adhesive area, in the folded state of the shipping bag system, is connectable to or connected with the folding portion containing the upper shipping bag edge, or is connectable to or connected with the folding portion adjacent to the folding portion containing the upper shipping bag edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.