Bag with internal protective flap
AssigneeBagcraft Corporation of America
InventorsMark Faltynek, Morton Henshell
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Abstract
There is disclosed herein a bag having front, back, gusseted side and bottom panels which includes an internal flap to cover the bag bottom, which flap is hingedly secured to one of front or back walls and adhesively secured to said bottom. The flap is movable with the bag from a folded position with the bottom lying against the back wall to an open position where the bag bottom is normal to the other walls and can be positioned flat with the flap drawn over the bottom.
Claims8
A bag having a front panel, a back panel, a pair of gusseted side panels, each interconnecting the front and back panels, and a flat-style folded and glued bottom panel connected to the side, front and back panels and constructed to move between a folded storage position adjacent one of the front and back panels to an open position where the bottom panel is substantially normal to the back, front and side panels, wherein the improvement comprises
- an internal protective flap which includes a secured edge and an unsecured edge opposite the secured edge, and the secured edge is hingedly secured to an inner surface of one of said front and back panels adjacent said bottom, having a size and shape for covering said bottom and constructed to be secured to said bottom so as to be positioned adjacent said bottom panel inside said bag in the bag open position, and wherein adhesive means are provided on said bottom panel for securing said flap to said bottom panel when said bag is in the closed position and before said bag is opened.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.