Patents Assigned to Mettler Packaging LLC
  • Patent number: 12486077
    Abstract: A plastic film bag with a bag opening with a bag opening edge, spaced apart from the upper edge of the bag, a connecting area interconnecting the plastic film front wall and the plastic film rear wall between the upper edges thereof and the bag opening edge, and (i) a first adhesion area which extends below the connecting area on the inner face of the plastic film rear wall from the first side edge of the plastic film rear wall up to the second side edge of the plastic film rear wall, or (ii) a second adhesive area which extends below the bag opening edge on the inner face of the plastic film front wall from the first side edge of the plastic film front wall up to the second side edge of the plastic film front wall. Furthermore, the present disclosure describes a blank for the plastic film bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Rene Donner, Patrick Eberhard
  • Patent number: 12415652
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a plastic carrier bag wherein the front and rear panel is designed to be multi-layered comprising an inner layer and an outer layer, and a reinforcing area containing at least one single or multi-layered plastic film strip is secured on the inside or outside to the front and rear panel, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2025
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Georg Donner, Wolfgang Trossen
  • Patent number: 12338062
    Abstract: A bag, such as a shipping bag, has an opening edge of a front wall present below an opening edge of the rear wall, so that the rear wall forms a protruding closing flap that can be folded over onto an overlapping area. The closing area has a first adhesive strip on the inner side of the rear wall, and the front wall has a third adhesive strip on the outer side on the other side of the overlapping area with the folded-over closing area. Also disclosed is a method for collecting used aluminum coffee capsules and a method for recycling used aluminum coffee capsules. The present disclosure further relates to use of the bags of the present disclosure for collecting and shipping used aluminum coffee capsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Eberhard
  • Patent number: 12280942
    Abstract: A bag, preferably a plastics bag, for the collection of waste, which may include damp waste such as used coffee capsules, wherein, a bag opening is present in the bag front wall, and further comprising a closing flap which has an adhesion area to cover and close the bag opening. The disclosure further relates to a method for collecting waste, which may include damp waste such as used coffee capsules, using the bag according to the disclosure. Moreover, a method for recycling used coffee capsules, comprising collecting a plurality of bags according to the disclosure filled therewith and subjecting this plurality of bags to a melting process. Finally, described herein is use of the bags according to the disclosure for the collection of waste, which may include damp waste such as used coffee capsules, or for the shipping of waste such as used coffee capsules to a collection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Rene Donner
  • Patent number: 12258198
    Abstract: A plastic film bag with a bag opening and an opposite bag end includes a plastic film front wall, a plastic film rear wall, a plastic film bag bottom, a plastic film interlayer arranged between the plastic film front wall and the plastic film rear wall, and at least one first layer comprising liquid-absorbent material, wherein the first layer is connected via the front side to the rear side of the plastic film interlayer and extends in the direction of the bottom edge of the plastic film interlayer and ends at a distance from said bottom edge or extends up to the bottom edge or in parts projects beyond the bottom edge in the direction of or up to the plastic film bag bottom. The present disclosure moreover relates to the use of the plastic film bag as a shipping bag, in particular for the transport of liquid samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Rene Donner
  • Patent number: 12048362
    Abstract: A reusable plastic bag having as well as a reusable plastic bag with holding straps have internal bag inserts for receiving one or more beverage bottles. A plastic film layer is connected to the inside of a front and/or rear wail of the plastic bag at least in portions, by way of at least two welded or adhesively bonded areas which are spaced apart from one another and extend from a point spaced apart from a base edge of the bag towards or as far as an opening edge of the bag, so as to form the internal bag inserts, which are open towards the bag opening and are each configured and designed to receive one or more beverage bottles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Georg Donner, Philipp Emanuel Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11958659
    Abstract: A plastic film bottom bag has a plastic film front wall that is welded or adhesively joined to side wall sections of adjoining plastic film side walls, and/or a plastic film rear wall that is welded or adhesively joined to the side wall sections of the adjoining plastic film side walls, so as to form a seam or casing seam. Further disclosed is a plastic film bottom bag, in which at least one, in particular both, plastic film side walls are provided with a side fold that comprises a welded or adhesive joint extending from or at a distance from the bag opening edge in the direction of the bag end or up to the bag end. The disclosure further relates to blanks for the plastic film bottom bags described herein and to the use of the plastic film bottom bags described herein, as reusable bags or reusable handbags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Georg Donner
  • Patent number: 11820555
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a plastic carrier bag wherein the front and rear panel is designed to be multi-layered comprising an inner layer and an outer layer, and a reinforcing area containing at least one single or multi-layered plastic film strip is secured on the inside or outside to the front and rear panel, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Georg Donner, Wolfgang Trossen
  • Patent number: 11524816
    Abstract: A plastics shipping bag includes a closure flap which projects beyond the front wall, can be folded over the outer face of the front wall, and comprises a passage opening, which is configured and designed for the passage of a handle loop or handle of the front wall and/or rear wall, wherein the closure flap comprises at least one fastening means between the opening edge of the rear wall and the passage opening, which fastening means is configured and designed to close the opening end once the closure flap has been folded over onto the outer face of the front wall. The plastics shipping bag can be used for shipping foods, such as chilled foods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Rene Donner, Patrick Eberhard
  • Patent number: 10625905
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a plastic carrier bag wherein the holding strap joined to the front panel and the holding strap joined to the rear panel comprises a first flexible hose-like hollow body or a single or multi-layered material strip not forming a hollow body, either of which is surrounded by a second flexible hose-like hollow body. Further, the present disclosure includes a holding strap for a plastic carrier bag containing a first flexible hose-like hollow body or a single or multi-layered material strip not forming a hollow body and a second flexible hose-like hollow body which surrounds the first flexible hose-like hollow body or the single or multi-layered material strip not forming a hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Georg Donner, Wolfgang Trossen
  • Patent number: 10518963
    Abstract: A carriable shipping bag contains a closable floor opening and an opening for a clothes hanger hook in the top shipping bag edge. The shipping bag further comprises a carrying device secured in some cases to or forming part of the front or back plastic film wall. Additionally, a carriable shipping bag system includes a carriable shipping bag of the present disclosure and a textile product protective cover, wherein in the top bag edge an opening for a clothes hanger hook is present. The shipping bag and the shipping bag system can be used for the transportation or shipment of textile products, such as for online sales of textile products, wherein in some cases the textile product is already placed on a clothes hanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventor: Rene Donner
  • Patent number: 10390635
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a carrier bag dispenser comprising a hold member arranged between a pair of struts for holding the carrying straps of a multitude of carrier bags, wherein said hold member has a support section, a fastening section and a separate retaining section, the latter two of which are resiliently connected, in some cases by at least one spring screw. The present disclosure further provides a carrier bag dispenser comprising a hold member arranged between a pair of struts for holding the carrying straps of a multitude of carrier bags, wherein said hold member has a support section, a fastening section and a retaining section having a front and a rear side wherein said rear side comprises a multitude of grooves extending from one side edge to the opposing side edge thereof. And, the present disclosure provides a carrier bag dispenser carousel comprising a multitude of carrier bag dispensers according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Mettler Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Willibrord Zender, Gerhard Janzen
  • Patent number: D894594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: METTLER PACKAGING LLC
    Inventors: Georg Donner, Wolfgang Trossen