Abstract: A series of bags are fabricated using a continuous, high-speed bag-forming process in which an elongated section of flattened film tubing is longitudinally conveyed toward a receiving station in which the formed bags are suitably packaged. As the flattened tube is moved toward the receiving station, elongated plastic film tie elements are sequentially formed and welded along relatively large area end portions thereof to at least two layers of a side edge portion of the flattened tube at longitudinally spaced locations thereon adjacent the upper end locations of the individual bags, the resulting free end portions of the tie elements overlying the flattened tube.

Abstract: The invention disclosed provides a flexible container which may be reclosed using a reusable closure system. The reusable closure system is an adhesive strip affixed to the flexible container which allows the flexible container to be reclosed a multiple number of times. The preferred method of closing the container comprises about any product contained therein between the open end of the container to substantially close the container. The gathered portion is then twisted and open end of the container is folded about the gathered portion and secured to any site on the container by means of the adhesive strip. A pressure sensitive adhesive utilized in conjunction with the strip quick-tack and quick-peel characteristics and does not permanently adhere to itself. The strip is usable over a broad range of temperatures and enables reclosing of a variety of containers both easily and effectively.

Abstract: A gussetted plastic bag and liner, wherein the bag is maintained open by an attached elastic band. The elastic is placed on either side of at least one gusset fold(s) in an untensioned state, so as to bridge the gusset. When the bag top is folded over a container rim, the elastic is stretched on the outside of the container. This placement permits the bag to be folded flat while providing a means to keep the bag open during use. The elastic is useful as a closure after use.

Abstract: A package assembly for providing ultra-clean storage and gravity discharge of contaminable powder or granular materials which comprises an outer container, a sterile vapor impermeable bag within said container, said bag having a bag body an inlet and an outlet, said inlet and outlet being closed when said bag accommodates said material to prevent contamination of said material, said outlet defining an opening, a flexible vapor impermeable tubular inner sheet extending from said opening and having a discharge end, a vapor impermeable tubular outer sheet enveloping said inner sheet terminating in a closed end, said inner sheet being secured by releasable securing means proximate said opening to prevent discharge of materials from said opening whereby when said inner sheet is positioned in a receiving means and said terminal end of said outer sheet is open and positioned around said receiving means and secured thereto, release of said securing means permits discharge of said material into said receiving means wi

Abstract: A series of bags are fabricated using a continuous, high-speed bag-forming process in which an elongated section of flattened film tubing is longitudinally conveyed toward a receiving station in which the formed bags are suitably packaged. As the flattened tube is moved toward the receiving station, elongated plastic film tie elements are sequentially formed and welded along relatively large area end portions thereof to at least two layers of a side edge portion of the flattened tube at longitudinally spaced locations thereon adjacent the upper end locations of the individual bags, the resulting free end portions of the tie elements overlying the flattened tube.

Abstract: A shopping container device, including a first, storage bag-size, collapsible bag, having an open top and a closed bottom, a flexible, non-stretchable handle attached about the open top for carrying the bag when full, a second, smaller collapsible bag having a closed bottom and an openable top, with the top biased normally closed, a flexible tape joining the open top of the first bag to the inside of the second bag a short distance below its biased-closed top, the bottom of the second bag folded flat to form a short flap, the flap folded about one portion of a small ring and attached it itself to form a ring-holding closed loop and a normally closed, openable snap anchored to the ring for attachment to the user's vehicle ignition keys, the smaller second bag of an overall size sufficient to completely contain the first bag collapsed therein, and of a length sufficient to contain the ignition keys when the first bag is removed therefrom.

Abstract: A system for disabling and protecting a particulate detector (10) as necessitated by many building, construction, and maintenance projects is disclosed. The particulate detector (10) is typically mounted on a ceiling or vertical wall surface (12), and a jacket (22) is secured to a body portion (16) of the particulate detector (10). The jacket (22) includes a non-opaque plastic container (24) with an opening (34) on one end and being substantially sealed elsewhere. A flag (26) attaches to the container (24) and hangs downward when the jacket (22) is installed on the particulate detector (10). Moreover, an opening control device (28) couples to the container (24) near the opening (34) thereof to control the size of the opening (34) so that the particulate detector (10) may be substantially inserted into the jacket (22) and so that the jacket (22) may be secured to the particulate detector (10).

Abstract: A plastic bag, such as a trash bag or the like, of linear low density polyethylene or a blend of low density polyethylene and low density polyethylene has a closure portion along its open end. The closure portion is of a plastic having dead fold properties, such as oriented high density polyethylene or polystyrene. The bag can be closed by twisting the closure portion. The dead fold property of the closure portion will maintain the twisted condition of the closure portion to maintain the bag closed.

Abstract: An improved plastic trash bag having elastic means secured to the trash bag adjacent its top edge that automatically gathers the top edge inwardly thereby closing its top end. The trash bags would be sold with multiple trash bags mounted within each other and they would be mounted on a display board having a specific configuration for mounting them thereon. When used with a trash receptacle, the top edge of the trash bag is stretched to open its top end and its top edge is folded downwardly over the top edge of the trash receptacle to prevent the trash bag from slipping down into the trash receptacle.

Abstract: A closing clip for sausage casings and the like, formed from a metal strip which is to be bent round the gathered casing end and of which the bearing surface resting against the casing end contains a friction-increasing impression. The impressions are provided so as to cover essentially the entire area.

Abstract: A series of bags are fabricated using a continuous, high-speed bag-forming process in which an elongated section of flattened film tubing is longitudinally conveyed toward a receiving station in which the formed bags are suitably packaged. As the flattened tube is moved toward the receiving station, elongated plastic film tie elements are sequentially formed and welded along relatively large area end portions thereof to at least two layers of a side edge portion of the flattened tube at longitudinally spaced locations thereon adjacent the upper end locations of the individual bags, the resulting free end portions of the tie elements overlying the flattened tube.

Abstract: A bag closure device includes a handle member, a clasp member connected at one of its ends to the handle member and having an opposite free end capable of being removably coupled to the handle member. Structure is provided which beneficially compresses, and hence closes, a portion of flexible bag therebetween. According to one embodiment, such structure may be in the form of a truncated V-shaped member associated with the handle member which compresses a region of the bag against a V-shaped trough associated with the clasp member. In another embodiment, such structure includes a circumferential boss segment which compresses the bag portion against an interior surface of an axially flexible strap member. In either embodiment, the captured bag is effectively prevented from slipping under its own weight during transport of the bag via the bag closure device.

Abstract: In the apparatus of the present invention, a twist-tie is shown formed of a layered flexible material. A wire is affixed along the length of this layer of plastic material and adhesively engaged thereto. The surface of adhesive and the wire is over fixed with a peelable layer of material which covers the adhesive and the wire or the first layer. The entire assembly is cut to a desired length and, in the preferred embodiment, a decorative ribbon may be secured thereto as by a staple, adhesive, string, or any other means, the decorative ribbon is then capable of being secured to a package of a size such that the peelable layer can be removed and the adhesive can be employed directed to affix the ribbon to the package. Alternatively, the peelable layer may remain and the ribbon affixed to a smaller package by utilizing the invention in the manner of a standard twist-tie. The size of the package with which the twist-tie alone can be employed is a function of the length of the twist-tie used.

Abstract: A tape is made of plastic with high elongation, then is coated on one or both sides with pressure-sensitive adhesive. The adhesive is then coated with a brittle coating material. In use, the tape is manually stretched, causing the brittle coating to crack and separate, exposing the adhesive. The tape is then wrapped around the neck of a bag to effect a closure.

Abstract: An article including at least one segment which is capable of being elastically shirred along at least a portion of its length subsequent to manufacture of the article, preferably by mechanical manipulation of a predetermined portion of the elastically shirrable segment. The predetermined mechanically manipulatable portion of the elastically shirrable segment preferably comprises an elastomeric monomer which is maintained in a prestretched and tensioned condition in the desired direction of shirring. The opposed ends of the elastically shirrable segment in the article are interconnected to one another through the prestretched and tensioned elastomeric member.

Abstract: A fluid dispenser has a cradle for holding a container of liquid to be agitated before dispensing in a downwardly inclined position towards the dispensing outlet and includes an arrangement for causing a wave-like motion to the contents of the container. The arrangement can include a rocking mechanism for the end of the cradle remote from the dispensing end or an arrangement for intermittently applying pressure to the wall of the container adjacent the dispensing end. The diminishing contents of the container may be compensated for.

Abstract: A plastic tape is coated with adhesive in alternating spots, then folded in corrugations to cover the spots of adhesive. In use, the tape is manually stretched to expose the adhesive, then wrapped around the neck of a bag to effect a closure.

Abstract: A closure for a T-shirt bag includes a sheet of material, the sheet of material defining first and second openings in which to place first and second handles of a T-shirt bag in order to restrain the handles for purposes of retaining the T-shirt bag at least partially closed. The first and second openings have substantially identical shapes, each being dimensioned and arranged to receive a portion of each handle. Each opening may include an access opening portion and an interior portion, the access opening portion being dimensioned and arranged to enable a user to pass handles through it into the interior portion. The interior portion of each opening may include first and second channel portions that extend on opposite sides of the access opening, each channel portion receiving a separate one of the handles.

Abstract: A series of bags are fabricated using a continuous, high-speed bag-forming process is which an elongated section of flattened film tubing is longitudinally conveyed toward a receiving station in which the formed bags are suitably packaged. As the flattened tube is moved toward the receiving station, elongated plastic film tie elements are sequentially formed and welded along relatively large area end portions thereof to at least two layers of a side edge portion of the flattened tube at longitudinally spaced locations thereon adjacent the upper end locations of the individual bags, the resulting free end portions of the tie elements overlying the flattened tube.

Abstract: A carrying handle is provided for use in conjunction with wrapped food items wherein the wrapping is secured at one end with a retaining clip. The carrying handle has a finger hold allowing the user to grab the handle with one or more fingers, a pair of flexible arms which allow the carrying handle to either lie flat against the food item or to be lifted away from the food item, a clamp which is drawn into position around the shrink wrapping and a pair of flexible fingers which bend outwardly as the wrapping is inserted into the clamp and then return to their normal position in which they engage the wrapping and keep the wrapping in the clamp.

Abstract: A package of the type used to contain one or more products to be carried out of a store or restaurant, includes a paperboard base tray having tapered side walls and a tapered, flexible bag portion made, for example, of transparent plastic film. The sleeve forming the bag portion is attached to the side walls of the base. The package thus has a rigid, smooth inner bottom for supporting upstanding articles, such as drink cups, has the capability of being nested in an open configuration for storage, and can be made from a minimum of materials.

Abstract: A draw band bag made from polyethylene film providing a bag body having side seals and a mouth at one end of the body defined by a lip portion. A draw band extends along the lip portion of the bag and is secured at the opposite ends to the side seals of the bag. The body has an opening therethrough adjacent the lip portion and intermediate the side seals through which the draw band is adapted to be pulled for closing the mouth. The draw band covers the openings through the bag body prior to being pulled therethrough. After the draw band is pulled through the openings to close the mouth, it is used to make a half hitch around the top of the bag and pulled tight.

Abstract: A flexible sealed bag for storing a liquid comprises a triangle-shaped flexible bag body which is tapered narrower toward its distal end and stores a liquid therein, and a wire for releasably fastening a portion near the distal end of the body, so as to separate the body into a liquid storing portion in which the liquid is sealed and a distal end portion in which the liquid is absent. An opening is formed in the distal end portion. Thereafter, the wire is removed and the liquid in the bag is discharged through the opening.

Abstract: A disposable and collapsible water resistant trash receptacle has a pleated sidewall comprising the side cylindrical portion of the container and a circular bottom attached to the bottom of the cylindrical portion. The upper portion of the sidewall forms an integral lid and has pairs of tie tabs so that when the receptacle is full of trash, the lid is pulled up and the pairs of tie tabs can be tied together to seal off the receptacle when full of trash. The longitudinal pleating and the type of material employed for forming the sidewall gives the receptacle sufficient rigidity so that it is freestanding when in the opened position. Additionally the pleating allows the sidewall to compress inwardly forming a compact, elongate tube for transport and sale. Further features of the basic receptacle include vertical stiffeners attached or molded into the sidewall to increase its rigidity and a transverse reinforcing strip for increasing the rigidity around the area forming the rim of the receptacle.

Abstract: A quick reseal system is provided and consists of a slideable fastener over twisted end of a bag that has an elongated aperture in sidewall to allow items to be removed therefrom when the fastener is manually moved to other side of the aperture.

Abstract: There is provided a storage container for paste-like substances, for example mayonnaise, in the shape of a bag with collapsible walls mounted within a pump-operated dispensing unit. The wall of the bag includes a segmentally crimped tube tightly sealed at one extremity with a clamp which is part of a double clamping device with an intermediate transverse separation band. The clamp segment which faces the bag cavity may be detachable from the crimped section.

Abstract: A body worn urinary collection system for a male incontinent is disclosed. A reusable, generally moistureproof and pliable penile sheath is shaped as an open-ended sack, and is sized to loosely overfit the male organ. The sack includes an oversized, first resilient, outer ferrule rimming the sack's open end. The cooperation of the ferrule and a strap on the sheath secures the sheath to the male organ with a snug and comfortable dam against backflow and leakage. The sheath may also include a urine outlet proximate the closed sack end to be connected to a urine storage bag via a flexible drain tube. The urine storage bag may be body mounted and includes an outlet orifice with plug means to release the stored urine at a desired time.

Abstract: A plastic bag for retaining a content therein and wherein the bag has a gathered throat portion adjacent an end opening thereof, the gathered throat portion being formed by randomly disposed wall portions of the plastic material fused together by two or more rows of adjacent spaced apart fused zones of plastic material disposed about a plurality of needle holes. The apparatus comprises at least one set of opposed gathering jaw plates for gathering, in a random fashion, a circumferential portion of the plastic bag adjacent the end opening thereof to form a gathered throat portion. Two pressing plates are disposed on a respective side of the gathered throat portion and are each provided with two or more spaced apart rows of needle receiving bores disposed adjacent one another in differing planes. A needle support block of heat conductive material has needles secured thereto for conducting heat from the block.

Abstract: A sack comprises an inner container and a double-ply outer container which latter comprises a tubular or essentially tubular section of which the opposed severed edges are interconnected by a seam. Alternatively, the outer container comprises two such sections having their severed edges interconnected by respective seams.

Abstract: A flexible inflatable container is closed at one end and open at its other end. A closure strap is secured to the bag adjacent the open end and is arranged to be wrapped around and close this open end after inflating the bag. This closure strap is associated with another strip of material secured to the bag for forming a handle at this end of the bag. The other end of the bag has a base strip secured peripherally around the bag and has flexible strips secured thereto to form handles at this end of the bag. The bag is sufficiently elongated from end to end so as to carry a person lying crosswise thereon for riding a wave in the surf.

Abstract: A sack of a thermoplastic film comprising an open mouth region, a body region and a closed bottom region, said body region having at least one cold-stretched, circumferential band of reduced diameter therein. The method of forming such a sack comprising providing a sack of thermoplastic film; folding said bag at least once longitudinally so that the fold line is at least generally at right angles to the bag mouth opening; and at ambient temperature, applying a stretching force within at least one comparatively narrow band region across the folded bag, said stretching force being sufficient to neck-down the plastic film to a reduced diameter in relation to the original diameter of said bag.

Abstract: A collapsible mobile device for shoppers having a wheeled base assembly, a plastic bag member detachably secured to the wheeled base assembly and extendible upwardly therefrom, and a handle device circumscribing the plastic bag member in locking relationship thereto for moving the bag on the wheeled base assembly.

Abstract: A flexible bulk container includes top and bottom walls and an encircling side wall. Substantially identical flexible fill and discharge spouts are secured to the top and bottom walls, respectively. Each spout carries a cord which can be tightened around the spout for closing the same and a slide fastener on the cord for holding the cord in its tightened position. The slide fastener is comprised of a flexible plastic tube which frictionally fits around the cord. An additional cord is attached to the slide fastener associated with the discharge spout so that the fastener can be slid into its open position from a remote location thereby protecting the workman opening the discharge spout. The top and bottom walls are each also provided with a pocket into which their respective folded spout can be inserted. The pockets are each held closed by drawstrings which are also provided with similar slide fasteners.

Abstract: A microscope drape fabricated from a very thin, transparent heat-resistant plastic film which is adapted to completely house an operating microscope including its support arms, is provided with an improved means for securing the tubular ocular housing extension of the drape to the oculars of the microscope which consists of a thin malleable strip attached to the ocular housing which permits the ocular housing to be secured to the microscope by crimping and folding over the metal strip after positioning the ocular housing on an ocular of a microscope.

Abstract: An open ended ostomy pouch having a folding bar attached to the bottom of the pouch. The folding bar extends on both sides beyond the width of the pouch at the bottom opening and includes interlocking closure components on opposite ends.

Abstract: A package and dispensing device for a continuous roll of pre-moistened towelettes which has an outer container that holds therein the roll of pre-moistened towelettes, the roll being surrounded by a bag which prevents the roll from drying out. The towelettes are pulled away from the roll through a hole in a sealing and dispensing plate and are pulled out of the top of the container.

Abstract: A package of an aqueous slurry of drywall joint compound, which consists of a flexible cross-laminated, high density polyethylene film which, when formed into a tube, is the sole outer container and is substantially filled with the joint compound slurry.

Abstract: A fastener is provided which is useful with a flexible article having a plurality of orifices, such as a conventional laundry bag. The fastener is adapted to be held in one of the orifices and thus carried with the bag for immediate availability. The fastener comprises an elongated body with one and an other spaced apart ends. A medial portion interconnects a flexible strap and a shank of the body. A bore is at the one end into which a leading tip at the other end is adapted to be releasably associated.