Patents by Inventor Kim N. I. Bell

Kim N. I. Bell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7223016
    Abstract: A collapsed bag of unitary construction is made of supple polymeric material, having first and second opposed contiguous flat sidewalls joined at edges and at the bottom but free or with user-releasable weakening at upper edges. The upper edges define a bag mouth. Appropriately situated graspable points at or near bag edges allow the sidewalls to be tensioned or snapped in opposing directions thereby causing the interlayer cling, to which supple polymeric bags are renownedly susceptible, to be readily disrupted for the full distance of contact between the tensioning points and thus for virtually the entirety of the bag mouth to be opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Inventor: Kim N. I. Bell
  • Publication number: 20040052434
    Abstract: A collapsed bag of unitary construction is made of supple polymeric material, having first and second opposed contiguous flat sidewalls joined at edges and at the bottom but free or with user-releasable weakening at upper edges. The upper edges define a bag mouth. Appropriately situated graspable points at or near bag edges allow the sidewalls to be tensioned or snapped in opposing directions thereby causing the interlayer cling, to which supple polymeric bags are renownedly susceptible, to be readily disrupted for the full distance of contact between the tensioning points and thus for virtually the entirety of the bag mouth to be opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Kim N. I. Bell