Square ended bag
AssigneeBasic Packaging Systems, Inc.
InventorOliver R. Titchenal
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Abstract
Open mouth square ended bags are formed from a tube-like band and in a chain with the back wall and top end of each bag partially sealed together from each side wall to provide an open mouth therebetween. Each bag in turn may be filled through the mouth located between the back wall and top end, the bag expanding forwardly from the back wall by expanding gussets in the top and bottom ends.
Claims14
In a chain of open mouth square ended bags constructed from an elongated band with each of said bags being defined by front and back walls, top and bottom ends, and fore and aft seal sides with each said seal side consisting of portions of said band extending from each said wall and end and sealed together by a side seal, each said seal side being breakably joined to the nearest seal side of the next adjacent bag in the chain, and elongated longitudinal strip means of said band located along the back walls and the top ends of all the bags and at least partially aligning the respective back wall and top end of each bag, the provision of each said bag having its back wall and top end sealed together with a closing seal leg extending from each seal side towards the opposite seal side a distance less than half the distance between the seal sides and defining therebetween an open mouth through which the bag may be filled from the top and between the back wall and top end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.