Profiled plastics bag closure strip and adhesive bonding method
AssigneeMinigrip, Inc.
InventorPaul A. Tilman
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Abstract
A closure strip (1) which incorporates a profiled closure element for use in resealable or reclosable bags is provided with a channel (4) in its surface which contacts a bag forming substrate material (6) for receiving adhesive (5). The presence of the channel ensures that a suitable thickness of adhesive is present at the time of bonding of the closure strip to the substrate. The invention also provides a method of making bag forming material by use of such a closure strip.
Claims15
Material for making a reclosable bag, and including a thin sheet-like substrate material and a plastic closure strip having closure profile means projecting oppositely to a base surface having opposite longitudinal edges and adapted to be adhesively secured to the substrate, the improvement comprising:
- adhesive means between said base surface and said substrate for securing said base surface to the substrate;
- and spacer means along said edges extending between said base surface and said substrate, said spacer means being separated by a longitudinal area of said base surface located between said spacer means, said base surface having many times the width of said spacer means, and said base surface being inset relative to said spacer means for assuring a substantial thickness of the adhesive between said base surface and said substrate.
In a closure strip of plastics material for use in the manufacture of a resealable bag and having a longitudinally extending profiled closure element upstanding with respect to one face of a ribbon-like base element and having an opposite face surface adapted to be adhesively attached to bag material, the improvement in which said opposite face surface of the ribbon-like base element includes adhesive-confining narrow spacer rib means along opposite longitudinal edges and projecting from said surface a distance about the same as the thickness of a layer of adhesive for securing the closure strip to a substrate of said bag material, there being an adhesive layer-receiving wide channel area of said surface several times as wide as said rib means and intervening between said rib means;
- said rib means being adapted to maintain said area spaced an adhesive layer thickness distance from the substrate when pressure is applied for pressing the strip and substrate together.
A closure strip according to any one of claims 2, 8 or 11 comprising a plurality of said channel areas extending parallel to each other and divided by additional rib means.
A method of making material for producing reclosable bags, and including providing a thin sheet-like substrate material and a plastic closure strip having profile means projecting oppositely to a base surface having opposite longitudinal edges and adapted to be adhesively secured to the substrate, the improvement comprising:
- applying adhesive means between said base surface and said substrate and securing said base surface to the substrate;
- and providing spacer means along said edges extending between said base surface and said substrate and separating the spacer means by a longitudinal area of said base surface located between said spacer means, said base surface being of many times the width of said spacer means and being inset relative to said spacer means, and thereby assuring a substantial thickness of the adhesive between said surface and said substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.