Abstract: A zipper closure strip for attachment to the top of a formed, filled and sealed package is provided. The zipper strip has a pair of interlocking profile members that extend from bowed webs which conform generally to the cross section of the top of the filled package. The strip may thus straddle the top of the package, gable fashion, and be bonded to the top of the package by heat seals, adhesive or the like. A slider seats on the profile members for urging them into engagement or forcing them apart. A blade protrudes through the slider from a plunger to enable the film at the top of the package beneath the closure strip to be slit. The zipper may be cuffed to expose the top end of the package to facilitate opening.

Abstract: A reclosable bag is formed with profiles on internal surfaces of the bag walls defining a closure. Gripping ribs are formed between the profiles and the bag mouth to facilitate opening the bag. Finger guide ribs provided opposite the profiles to facilitate closing the bag.

Abstract: A reclosable plastic film for a bag and the method and mechanism for making the same. The film may be employed for making various types of bags, but in each case the arrangement provides for a tear strip wherein a series of perforations are placed in the film extending parallel to the fastener profiles, and a sealing cap layer is placed over the perforations which cap layer is grain oriented and sufficiently frangible so that as the film is torn along the line of perforations, the cap layer will tear, providing sealing until tearing occurs. A method and apparatus are provided wherein a completed film for a bag may be constructed in a single pass with the film first being perforated, the cap layer laid over the film while molten, and the profiles then attached to the film oriented relative to the location of the perforations.

Abstract: Apparatus for extending film tube from high density polyethylene biaxially oriented in longitudinal or machine direction as well as in cross machine diameter-increasing direction, and for joining extruded closure strip carried helically on one wall of the tube correspondingly stretched as a result of the biaxial stretching to which the film of the tube is stretched. The closure-strip-carrying, biaxially oriented tube is adapted to be converted into a ribbon sheet form with the closure strip extending as individual closure strip sections across the ribbon sheet form at longitudinally spaced intervals, and adapted for making bags.

Abstract: A method of making reclosable bag material and bags made therefrom, wherein the bag making film providing bag walls is provided with an extruded plastic profile reclosable fastener strip across a portion of the longitudinal formation axis of the film and bag walls to be located at the open end of the bag and the strip having a base web for attachment to the film, and bonding the base web of the fastener strip to the film so that on one wall of the bag the base web is attached above and below the profile structure on the strip and on the other wall of the bag the base web is bonded to the film at a location only above the centerline of the profile structure on the strip.

Abstract: Bag making material comprises a plastic film carrying a reclosable fastener or zipper male profile and with one or more alignment ribs in spaced parallel relation to the profile. Reinforcing ridge or ridges provide stabilizing beam effect in respect to the profile and/or the alignment rib or ribs on the film along the back of the profile and/or alignment rib base or bases.

Abstract: A bag has wall panels defining a receptacle space and providing a bag mouth arrangement between upper end portions of the wall panels. A tamper evident, and if desired hermetic seal, non-reclosable closure adjacent to a reclosable zipper and located adjacently below upper end portions of the wall panels is accessible to be opened when the zipper is open. The zipper is arranged for intermittent opening and closing of the bag and its opposite ends are sealed into the side edges of the bag. The non-reclosable closure may be a peel seal or a rupturable connection.

Abstract: A zippered cook-in-bag pouch and method wherein the pouch and a profiled extruded plastic zipper structure at the mouth of the pouch body are formed from material which will withstand substantially without deterioration maximum cooking heat to which contents within the pouch may be subjected when cooking the contents. A set hot melt adhesive between the profiles bonds the profiles tenaciously against separation at room temperature. The adhesive is sufficiently softenable at a temperature substantially above room temperature but near the cooking temperature, for releasing the profiles for opening the pouch body. The adhesive is settable to a non-tacky state in respect to the separated profiles when the adhesive temperature drops below the softenable temperature of the adhesive so that the zipper can then be reclosed and opened at will without adhesive interference.

Abstract: A bag structure and the method of forming wherein the bag is formed of a thin film material with wall panels and an openable bag top having pressure closable rib and groove profile fasteners at the top and upwardly extending pull flanges with a fold formed at the top of one of the wall panels and extending downwardly to attach to one of the fasteners and the flange of that fastener attached directly to the fastener so that the pull flange can apply an opening force directly to the fastener and so that the side wall and the fold can expand and move outwardly without applying a direct force to the fastener which would tend to open the fastener.

Abstract: A new method of making a form fill bag having a reclosable fastener thereon and a mechanism therefor wherein a continuous length of film is advanced and joined first and second fastener profile strips are laid laterally onto the film of a length substantially equal to one-half of the film width, the film is advanced and formed into a tube with the side edges folded together and seamed, the first profile strip is attached to the surface of the film prior to forming it into the tube and the second opposed interlocked profile strip is attached to the inner surface of the film after it is formed into a tube, and a cross-seam is formed in the tube above the closure strip to form the bottom of the succeeding bag and a completed bag is cut from the film by cutting below the bottom seam and above the fastener strips.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for attaching a rapidly continuously running substrate web and a corunning separable fastener strip having an attachment base surface carrying a dormant reactivatable adhesive which is reactivated and the fastener strip and the web pressed into firmly adhesively bonded relation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a tube and bag from a supply of thin thermoplastic film with the film being formed into tubular shape about a filling tube with the edges of the film brought together and joined solely by a zipper strip having reclosable pressure interlocking members thereon with the zipper strip preferably heat sealed to the film and the zipper strip having a web between the pressure interlocking members which provides a tamper-evident juncture between the edges of the film so that the web must be severed for access to the interior of a bag formed from the film, and individual bags formed from the continuous tube by filling the tube through the filling tube and cross-seaming and cutting individual bags from the continuous film tube.

Abstract: A bag with an openable mouth carries a reclosable extruded plastic zipper inside the mouth. The zipper has complementary profiles separably interlockable in a closed condition of the zipper. A gasket flange structure is separably sealingly grippingly interengageable by and between the profiles in the closed condition of the zipper, and may also serve as a tamper evident or tamper discouraging device.

Abstract: A leak resistant toothless plastic zipper is provided. The closed end of the zipper fused together and/or is secured in position by a clamp from which a gasket extends toward the open end of the zipper to engage with the zipper slider in sealing the gap that would otherwise form at the zipper closed end. A hook is provided to secure the tab of the zipper slider in sealing engagement with the gasket when the slider is at the closed end. The gasket may be disposed about the zipper elements or interposed between the elements. A bag incorporating such a zipper is also disclosed.

Abstract: An improved reclosable bag structure formed out of a plastic film or laminations thereof with front and back wall panels attached along their bottom and along their side edges and having fastener strips along the inner surfaces of the panels at the bag top with the strips secured thereto and one strip having a web element which is secured at its lower edge below the center line of the first strip and the other strip having a web element which is secured to the top of the strip with said web elements bonded along their faces to the inner surfaces of the panels at the top of the bag so that forces against the bag walls cause the strips to tilt and resist separation with said forces being applied in a shear mode rather than a peel mode.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming film capable of being converted into bags in an form, fill and seal machine or for providing bags attached to each other in end-to-end relationship including relatively advancing a continuous sheet of thin plastic film along a path having a fastener station therealong, moving first and second thermoplastic flexible fastener members laterally from opposite sides of the sheet to extend transversely substantially to the center thereof and attaching said fastener members to the surface of the sheet whereby the sheet can thereafter be formed into bags in an form, fill and seal machine or folded longitudinally to join the fastener members and to form a side seal to form a completed series of bags by cross-seaming the material at predetermined spaced intervals.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for packaging product masses in a form, fill and seal machine, wherein a continuous length of packaging film is joined in running relation by a continuous length of separately formed plastic reclosable fastener assembly having interlock profile strips spot sealed together at package length intervals. The corunning fastener strip assembly and the packaging film are oriented so that the spot seals of the strip are located in alignment with the spaces between the product masses on the film to assure that the fastener strip assembly will be cross sealed at the spot seals when the film is cross sealed between the product masses to provide individual packages. The orienting may be effected by an indexing arrangement including sensor response to index marks on the film and the fastener assembly.

Abstract: A fastener structure having continuous interlocking flexible plastic profiles on opposing strips adapted to be releasably interlocked to each other, each strip having a pair of ribs and a pair of grooves wherein each rib and each groove of the pairs are of the same size and shape, a blocking boss extending continuously along the outermost of the ribs to engage a rib of the other strip when the strips are misaligned and the wrong rib is pressed into the wrong groove but allowing interlocking when both ribs and grooves are aligned.

Abstract: A series of bags having printable areas thereon with the bags secured at their base to a support strip and the support strip is mounted to a continuous support web such as computer paper by a strip of double surfaced adhesive tape supplied between the strip and computer paper with the computer paper thereafter folded to maintain the bags in registry for subsequent printing.

Abstract: A plastic film structure for forming a bag including a sheet of thin plastic film with continuous shaped interlocking rib and groove profiles thereon either integral with the film or on strips which are fused to the film with the sheet having plastic reinforcing strips thereon between the profiles with the reinforcing strips providing tear guidelines for tearing off the top of a bag formed from the sheet to thereafter provide gripping flanges for separating the profiles and opening the bag.