Method of providing a package with a handle
AssigneeIWEMA Forpacknings AB
InventorFolke Gustav Adolf Stenberg
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for making a package comprising a shrinking film surrounding a number of articles arranged in a package pattern and presenting on its top surface, which surface comprises at least two layers of said film to reinforce said surface, a carrying handle made wholly or partly from the package material proper, said handle being delimited by two cuts formed in the lengthwise direction in said reinforced top surface of said package, said handle being thus integral with the rest of the film at its ends only.
Claims5
The method of manufacturing an article-enclosing package and carrier handle comprising the steps of arranging the articles in a desired packaging pattern, wrapping a film of shrinking type plastic around said articles, overlapping the longitudinal side edge portions of said film, heat sealing said overlapping side edge portions to form an elongate reinforced section of said package, and forming two longitudinal slits in said package in parallel relationship to the elongate reinforced section and on opposite sides thereof to form a strip integral with said reinforced section and suitable for use as a carrying handle, the longitudinal slits being formed of lesser length than the length of the reinforced section for transferring loads from the carrying handle to the remaining film through a portion of the reinforced section.
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