Abstract: A security bag includes a pair of overlapping wall panels joined at their bottom and side edges to define an opening at the top of the wall panels for carrying money and other items. One of the wall panels includes a receipt strip extending from the top of the panel and connected to the wall panel along a perforation line. The receipt strip and one of the wall panels each carry an identical identification number. The receipt strip is removable from the security bag by severing along the perforation line. A closure flap is provided for closing the opening of the bag when the receipt strip is removed. The closure flap includes a strip of tape having an adhesive on one surface that is adhered at a lower attachment portion of the tape to one wall panel. A release liner covers the adhesive on an upper sealing portion of the tape and is readily removable to expose the adhesive for adhering the closure flap to the other wall panel to close the bag opening.

Abstract: A tamper evident recloseable bag is disclosed having two opposing wall panels, a recloseable fastener profile assembly extending across the upper portion of the wall panels and a hooded closure enveloping the entire upper portion of the wall panels. The hooded closure arrangement seals the bags closed until intentional opening of the bag is desired, at which time the hooded closure can be removed by lightly pulling it in an upwardly direction. The removed hooded closure visually indicates the opened condition of the bag.

Abstract: A shipping sack having side walls defining a mouth from which contents may be discharged, includes a non-reclosable stitched fastener across and closing the mouth. The stitched fastener includes a removable chain stitch and a removable rip tape for facilitating manual opening of the stitched fastener. The rip tape is composed of a strip having a cut-out opening therethrough defining a handle adapted to be manually grasped for carry the shipping sack. The rip tape also includes a free end extending beyond the edge of the shipping sack to facilitate manual access to the rip tape and to facilitate pulling the rip tape to remove the stitched fastener.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a reclosable pouch having front and back walls and an opening along its upper edge. A double web of plastic material is advanced which comprises a front wall and a back wall. First and second fastener profiles are advanced simultaneously therewith. The first fastener profile is sealed on its ends to the exterior of the front wall of the pouch. The fastener profile extends longitudinally near the pouch opening. The second fastener profile is sealed on its ends to the exterior of the back wall of the pouch. The fastener profiles are adapted for interlocking with the front and back walls of the pouch being interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A recloseable bag having a fastener assembly comprising two fastener profiles, each having a hinged double wall construction to prevent unintended opening of the bag due to internal forces exerted on the inside of the bag wall panels. The bag is easily openable when suh is intended by simple manipulation of pull flanges, thereby providing access to the interior of the bag. The hinged double wall construction also assures proper alignment of the fastener profiles across the length of the upper portion of the bag wall panels, making interlocking closure easy when pressure is applied on the outer walls of the bag behind the fastener profiles.

Abstract: A reclosable flexible container is provided as a pouch having a front wall with an inside and an outside surface, a rear wall with an inside and an outside surface and a pouch opening. A pair of exterior closure elements are provided for mechanical interlocking with a pair of interior closure elements. A wall of the pouch is interposed between each interior and exterior closure element. The interior closure elements further have a mechanical mechanism for selective interlocking with each other so as to seal the pouch or reopen it as desired. As a result a reclosable pouch is provided without the use of heat seals or adhesives.

Abstract: A reclosable pouch is provided having front and back walls and an opening along its upper edge. A first fastener profile is sealed on its ends to the exterior of the front wall of the pouch. The fastener profile extends longitudinally near the pouch opening. A second fastener profile is sealed on its ends to the exterior of the back wall of the pouch. The first and second fastener profiles each have a rib member extending longitudinally thereon and a groove for reception of the oppositely disposed rib. The fastener profiles are adapted for interlocking with the front and back walls of the pouch being interposed therebetween. A method and apparatus for manufacturing the aforesaid pouches are also described herein.

Abstract: A resealable container having flexible side walls defining an access opening, and a sealing cuff disposed internally of said access opening. The sealing cuff is formed from a film sheet having a first marginal edge affixed to the container about the periphery of the access opening and having a free second marginal edge extending into the container. The sealing cuff defines mutually oposed surfaces having high cling characteristics so as to form a seal therebetween when brought into surface engagement. An external cuff having high slip properties may be formed peripherally of the access opening to facilitate opening of the internal sealing cuff.

Abstract: A reclosable flexible container is provided as a pouch having front and back walls and a pouch opening at the upper edge thereof. The pouch has a cuff about the periphery of the pouch opening. A first fastener profile is affixed to either the cuff or the front wall of the pouch. A second fastener profile is affixed to the rear wall or to a cuff affixed to the rear wall. The fastener profiles may be selectively interlocked so as to seal the pouch with at least one wall of the pouch being interposed therebetween and engaged therein.

Abstract: A bag structure and method of making the same, wherein a liner on the inside of the bag body has a closed top within the bag body top providing a primary closure for the bag which must be opened for access to contents within the bag. A secondary closure comprises a reclosable fastener zipper carried by the bag body top above the primary closure for access to the primary closure, and then serving for selectively opening and closing the bag top opening.

Abstract: A hood-like top closure on a bag top has end portions extending beyond opposite sides of the bag and the end portions are closed against leakage. The top closure may have a zipper separably connecting a pair of attachment flanges one of which extends along and is secured to one face of the bag top along the top opening and the other of which flanges is secured to a second face of the bag top along the opening. More particularly, the end portions of the attachment flanges are adhesively bonded so as to prevent sifting or leakage therethrough. A method of and apparatus for making the bag are also provided.

Abstract: The top end of a side gusset of a reclosable sack is securely closed as by means of spots of adhesive on and between the infolded gusset walls, leaving the bag walls free to spread relative to the gusset, and leaving the remainder of the gusset to its opposite end free to expand. A method and apparatus are provided for making the sacks.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for assembling and attaching zipper closure means in strip form to open ends of flat sacks fed serratim into an attachment station. Consecutive sections of the closure means must be in proper registration with the sacks in such station. Assembly of the sections with the sack ends is coordinated by monitoring relative orientation of the sections and the sacks and automatically correcting for deviations from the registration.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for making printed gusset bags from tubular bag material, which may be extruded film plastic with integral interlocking fastener profiles along the edges of panels of the material which have been collapsed into face-to-face relation, and in which each of the panels will provide a succession of separate finished bags, comprising the step of and means for imprinting on each of the panels indicia on bag wall areas and on a gusset area intermediate the wall areas, the step of and means for manipulating the imprinted bag material from the originally collapsed condition to fold the wall areas of each of the panels together into face-to-face relation and to infold the gusset area of each of said panels into position between the folded bag wall areas of each of the panels, and the step of and means for separating the gusseted panels into individual gusset bags.

Abstract: A reclosable sack having a pouring mouth from which discrete pourable contents may be discharged, comprises a primary non-reclosable stitched closure fastener across and closing the mouth against unintentional discharge of the contents and includes means such as chain stitch and rip strip for facilitating digital opening of the primary closure fastener. A secondary, reclosable fastener, desirably of the zipper type, extends across the sack mouth outwardly from the primary closure fastener and is adapted for selectively opening and closing the sack mouth after opening of the primary closure fastener. A method of making the reclosable sack is also disclosed.