Patents by Inventor Terry D. Gebhardt
Terry D. Gebhardt 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).
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Patent number: 6659644Abstract: A bag for holding hot food products is provided with pairs of arcuate vents such that hot moist air may escape from the bag to keep food held within fresh. The arcuate vent pairs are placed in certain areas of the body of the bag such that structural strength in the bag is not lost yet hot moist air is allowed to escape. In a preferred embodiment, the bag is made of plastic and has handles defined in the front and rear panels of the bag, such that the gussets, or sides, of the bag are not perforated by handles and the bag presents a neat appearance when it is open and full of product.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: TC Manufacturing Inc., Co.Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Publication number: 20030015454Abstract: A headerless pack of thermoplastic film bags having weak bag to bag seals to make said pack and a teardrop like shaped supporting opening whereby said pack is supported on a dispenser rod through said opening and a single bag can easily be removed by pulling down on said bag thereby breaking said seals and tearing through said opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2002Publication date: January 23, 2003Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 6478156Abstract: A headerless pack of thermoplastic film bags having weak bag to bag seals to make said pack and a teardrop like shaped supporting opening whereby said pack is supported on a dispenser rod through said opening and a single bag can easily be removed by pulling down on said bag thereby breaking said seals and tearing through said opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1997Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: TC Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Publication number: 20020110290Abstract: A bag for holding hot food products is provided with pairs of arcuate vents such that hot moist air may escape from the bag to keep food held within fresh. The arcuate vent pairs are randomly placed in certain areas of the body of the bag such that structural strength in the bag is not lost yet hot moist air is allowed to escape. In a preferred embodiment, the bag is made of plastic and has handles defined in the front and rear panels of the bag, such that the gussets, or sides, of the bag are not perforated by handles and the bag presents a neat appearance when it is open and full of product.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2002Publication date: August 15, 2002Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 6231234Abstract: A plastic bag having a closure device attached thereto adjacent the opening and adapted to fold over the bag walls and hook to itself to seal the bag while allowing the opening to remain outside of the closure.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: TC Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 5826724Abstract: A plastic bag has two perforations, an upper and a lower, and a flip top allowing the top of the bag to be torn from a header or saddle loaded with product and closed. The flip top can then be removed using the lower perforation to expose the product.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1997Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: TC Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 5676467Abstract: A plastic bag is disclosed of the type to hold flat or awkward shaped objects, which is constructed of a top, a bottom, a first and second end, and two sides. A slit is utilized to allow entry into the bag. The slit may be positioned across the side or across the top.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1996Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignee: TC Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 5575393Abstract: A stack of a plurality of headerless plastic bags are assembled together for individual dispensing. Each bag comprises a front wall having a first body portion and a first lip and a rear wall attached to the front wall. The rear wall includes a second body portion which overlies the first body portion of the front wall and a rear lip which extends beyond the front lip of the front wall. The bags are collated into a stack and are removably joined to one another by forming a cold weld in and between the rear lips of the rear wall of adjacent bags. The cold welds are formed by pressing the rear lips of the bags together under pressure, but without the application of heat. The cold welds join the plurality of bags in the stack together until the cold welds which join a particular bag to the stack are severed. Each bag is dispensed in its entirety without any residual waste.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1995Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: TC Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 5205808Abstract: An interfolded boxed bag arrangement and method and apparatus for making the same from plastic tube or sheeting stock. Plastic tubular or sheeting stock is unwound off two rolls under tension. The stock proceeds to various stations where it is cut into bag lanes by rotary knife blades. A bag lane is cut between each pair of rotary knife blades with a hot knife to form a sealed bottom for the bags. The bag lanes are then cut to a specified length with a hot knife which seals each side of the bag. Bags produced by each roll of stock material are staggered adjacent to one another and are interfolded with each other by a set of rotary gripper fingers and tucker fingers to form an interfolded stack of bags. The stacks are placed into a dispensing box for individual dispensing.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1991Date of Patent: April 27, 1993Assignee: T C Manufacturing Co. Inc.Inventor: Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 4790803Abstract: The method of making from tube stock the bag pad arrangement of parent application Ser. No. 068,062 that is concerned with bagging a pair of liquid containers, such as containers for carry out for milk shakes, carbonated beverages, and other types of drinks, that are commonly available at fast food outlets, at the point of sale of such products, for easy and effective carry away by the customer, in which the bags of the bag pad are all the same and are incorporated in the pad in congruent relation.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1988Date of Patent: December 13, 1988Assignee: T. C. Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Ralph M. Roen, Terry D. Gebhardt, Richard C. Dokmo
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Patent number: 4769126Abstract: A bag pad arrangement, and method of making same from tube stock, for bagging a pair of liquid containers, such as containers for carry out for milk shakes, carbonated beverages, and other types of drinks, that are commonly available at fast food outlets, at the point of sale of such products, for easy and effective carry away by the customer, in which the bags of the bag pad are all the same and are incorporated in the pad in congruent relation, with each bag having a bottom fold that is gusseted for flat bottom shaping when open, front and back panels extending between side end seals that extend normally of the bag bottom that are spot welded together at the center of the bag but spaced from the bottom gusset thereof, and that define rectilinear side edgings forming the upper corners of the respective bags that extend to the bag end seals adjacent to but spaced from the bottom gusset thereof, and aligned handle forming openings formed in the bag front and back panels adjacent the upper end of each bag; as iType: GrantFiled: June 30, 1987Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: T. C. Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Ralph M. Roen, Terry D. Gebhardt, Richard C. Dokmo
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Patent number: 4769125Abstract: A bag pad arrangement for bagging food containers, such as containers for carry out cooked chicken or hamburgers, at fast food outlets, at the point of sale of such products, for easy and effective carry away by the customer, in which the pad bags are all the same and are incorporated in the pad in congruent relation, with each bag having a bottom fold that is gusseted for flat bottom shaping when open, front and back panels extending between side end seals that extend normally of the bag bottom, and aligned handle forming openings formed in the bag front and back panels adjacent the upper end of each bag; as incorporated in the bag pad, the back panel of each bag includes a projecting flange that extends beyond the top edging of the bag front panel which is free of the back panel to form the mouth of each bag.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1987Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: T. C. Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Ralph M. Roen, Terry D. Gebhardt
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Patent number: 4717262Abstract: A flat bottom plastic bag of two sided panel construction with the bottom of the bag formed by a gussett extending between the sealed ends of the bag, at which point the bag side panels are joined together, with the bag bottom gusset having a central fold line that is, in the flattened relation of the bag, disposed between the lower portions of the bag side panels, and that in such relation forms a first pair of adjacent bag plies that includes one of said bag side panel lower portions, and a second pair of bag plies that includes the lower portion of the other bag side panel, with said respective sets of bag plies being respectively joined together but free of adherence to each other by diagonally extending heat seals on either side of the bag that extend diagonally from the bag respective ends in converging relation to adjacent the respective bottom edgers of the bag that are defined by the respective bag plies.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1987Date of Patent: January 5, 1988Assignee: T.C. Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Ralph M. Roen, Terry D. Gebhardt