Including Closure Flap Which Overlaps Sidewall Exterior When Closed Patents (Class 383/84)
  • Patent number: 5246103
    Abstract: A shallow rectangular frame has a hanger by which it can be suspended. The frame internally mounts a compartment-defining sheet with vertically oriented partitions. Upper ends of each of the compartments have hooks from which to suspend elongate articles of jewelry within the compartments. An auxiliary cloth panel of rectangular configuration has a plurality of pockets and is tackable or pinable to receive various articles of jewelry. In the underside of the top rail a plurality of horizontally spaced apart outwardly facing cup hooks are provided to engage a rod carried in aligned fabric loops at the upper edge of the auxiliary panel. The panel can thus be selectively placed laterally with respect to the main frame to expose the open sides of some only of the compartments. A travel envelope can be sleeved over the auxiliary panel and has a plurality of external pockets to receive sundry items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Inventor: Valerie S. Hicks
  • Patent number: 5199795
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method of packaging hazardous liquids for shipment or containment, and to the structure and composition of the packaging which can be used to practice the method.The method comprises packaging a hazardous liquid for shipment or containment wherein the hazardous liquid, present in at least one sealed container or in a leaking container, respectively, is placed in a package which can be sealed so that the package completely surrounds and isolates the container, wherein the improvement comprises:constructing the packaging material so that it comprises at least two layers, including an interior layer and an exterior layer, wherein the interior layer of the packaging material adjacent to the sealed or leaking container can be penetrated by liquid which escapes from the container, and wherein the exterior layer of the packaging material, the external portion of which is in contact with the external environment, is impermeable by the liquid and by hazardous vapor therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Rousseau Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph D. Russo, Laurence M. Russo
  • Patent number: 5184725
    Abstract: A reclosable package for containing a stack of cellulose tissues includes a block-shaped package which is made from a single sheet of material cut into a one-piece pattern and folded, which block-shaped package includes a front side having an upper end in which is defined a cutout having opposed ends to provide an enlarged removal area through which the cellulose tissues may be removed in use, a rear side having an upper end, right and left sides each having an upper end, a bottom, a top cover extending from the upper end of the rear side and having a pair of sides and an upper end, a closing flap having an upper edge with opposed ends extending from the upper end of the top cover, and left and right lateral closing folds for increasing resistance to tearing extending from the upper ends of respective sides and from the respective sides of the top cover, and each having a free edge, and which block-shaped package has a closed state in which the closing flap and top cover are folded downwardly over the cellulo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignee: VP-Schickedanz AG
    Inventors: Horst Reinheimer, Christof Stary
  • Patent number: 5150971
    Abstract: A mailing device for etiologic agents and/or biomedical materials is disclosed. The mailing device comprises a front panel joined to a back panel, the back panel being longer than the front panel. Three sides of each panel are sealed together, preferably by an adhesive, most preferably by heat sealing, such that an opening to an internal region is created, said opening defined by the top, unsealed portion of the front panel, and the top unsealed portion of the back panel which exceeds the height of the front panel. The region of the back panel extending above that of the front panel is referred to as a "flap" or "flap region". The flap region includes means for folding the flap along a substantially parallel line to said opening, said line being located above the opening, preferably from between about one-fourth to about one-half of the distance of the flap upwards from said opening and most preferably about one-fourth of the distance of said flap upward from said opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: Beckman Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Kathleen M. Strong, Richard S. Matusewicz
  • Patent number: 5102234
    Abstract: A medical specimen bag is made of three or more overlying sheets of clear pliable plastic material joined along three common edges to make at least two separate pockets open along a fourth edge of the sheets. One of the sheets includes an adhesive flap foldable against the exposed fourth edges of the remaining sheets for sealing all the pockets. The sealed end of the bag is torn off to regain access to all pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Inventor: Abner Levy
  • Patent number: 5077001
    Abstract: A tamper-evident seal for a plastic envelope with a pocket and closing flap having first adhesive sealing means for sealing the flap to the envelope and a second, tamper-evident sealing means adhering to the end of and extending beyond the end of the flap which also adheres to the envelope after the flap is closed and sealed. The tamper-evident sealing means has a pattern of regions, some of the regions having visually distinct reflective characteristics from others of the regions. The tamper-evident means can also have a pearlaceous material therein or thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Makowka
  • Patent number: 5067821
    Abstract: This invention is a disposable bag having a foldable funnel mounted in the throat of the bag. The bag has a convergent, upwardly tapered neck toward the mouth of the bag. The mouth and a portion of the neck are inverted inside the bag where it forms a reflux valve below the funnel. One side of the funnel includes an upwardly extending closure that can be folded across the funnel into sealing engagement with the other side of the funnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Inventor: J. Winslow Young
  • Patent number: 5056932
    Abstract: This invention is a disposable bag having a foldable funnel mounted in the throat of the bag. The bag has a convergent, upwardly tapered neck toward the mouth of the bag. The mouth and a portion of the neck are inverted inside the bag where it forms a reflux valve below the funnel. One side of the funnel includes an upwardly extending closure that can be folded across the funnel into sealing engagement with the other side of the funnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Inventor: J. Winslow Young
  • Patent number: 5030189
    Abstract: Method for forming an envelope having a tear strip or a tear-off flap portion for aiding in opening the envelope, comprising the steps of providing an envelope blank formed of a material capable of being weakened by the application of ultrasonic frequencies, forming the blank into a finished envelope, and applying ultrasonic energy to the finished envelope to form either a pair of closely-spaced, elongate distress lines or a single, straight distress line at which the fibers forming the material are weakened, thus defining a tear strip or a tear-off flap portion capable of manual separation form the remainder of the envelope. An envelope formed according to the above method comprises a body portion having a front panel, a back panel, and a seal flap extending outwardly from and formed integrally with a side of the front panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: National Services Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: A. Derrell Hightower
  • Patent number: 4988547
    Abstract: A bag having a front panel and a rear panel having respective side and bottom portions sealed together leaving an opening in the bag for access to the interior thereof. The rear panel extends beyond the opening to form a flap that can be folded over the opening. A first area of adhesive means is carried by the rear panel, i.e., the flap, and is adapted to secure the panels together to close the opening of the bag by bonding to a second area of adhesive means carried by the front panel. Each adhesive means comprises a backing bearing a layer of adhesive on one major surface thereof, and each is bonded to its respective panel by means of the second major surface of said backing, which second major surface is bonded to the material of its respective panel by means of heating, fusing, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Leonard M. Voto, Jr., Shari J. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4937040
    Abstract: A security deposit bag for receipt of articles and including adhesive closure means for releasably enclosing the opening of the bag. The adhesive closure means includes means for forming indicia in the adhesive closure means if the bag is opened at substantially below room temperature after being sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Bruce A. Holcomb, Shaun D. McCracken, Bryan J. McGinnis
  • Patent number: 4925711
    Abstract: A packaging bag for photosensitive materials has an opening and welded fin sides wherein the bag and comprises a folded cylindrical coextruded multilayer inflation film having at least one light-shielding layer containing a light-shielding material, said opening being formed of the uncut ends of the folded inflation film, and said welded fin sides being formed of both cut portions of the inflation film, and a bag-making method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsuo Akao, Koji Inoue
  • Bag
    Patent number: 4917507
    Abstract: A bag (1) for bulk transportation and storage of materials includes an aperture (2) in a bottom panel (3). An external flap (4) is provided for covering the aperture (2) when required. Fleece and hook fasteners (7, 8) are provided for holding the flap in either a first position covering the aperture, or a second position remote therefrom. For aiding lifting the bag loops (11) are attached to the bag (1) a short distance from the top thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: Sidian Trading Ltd.
    Inventor: James I. Davidson
  • Patent number: 4872558
    Abstract: A packaging system includes an outer bag having an inner bag suspended therein to define an expandable chamber between the bags and one either side of the inner bag. When the chamber is charged with a filler medium, such as pressurized air, the outer bag will inflate to suspend the inner bag at a fixed position therein. The inner bag defines a pocket adapted to receive and retain an article, prepackaged therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Inventor: Daniel A. Pharo
  • Patent number: 4860899
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus and articles for use in dispensing medication. Control of the medication is accomplished by assigning unique numerical (or alpha-numerical) code identifications to each of the many medications prescribed for patient use. A typical dosage, usually a unit dosage, of each medication is placed in a sealed packet and each packet is marked with the code identification of the medication contained in the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: RNA, Incorporated
    Inventor: John H. McKee
  • Patent number: 4838708
    Abstract: A security deposit bag for receipt of articles and including adhesive closure means for releasably enclosing the opening of the bag. The adhesive closure means includes means for forming indicia in the adhesive closure means if the bag is opened after being sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Bruce A. Holcomb, Shaun D. McCracken, Bryan J. McGinnis
  • Patent number: 4834552
    Abstract: A tamper-evident seal for a plastic envelope with a pocket and closing flap having an adhesive sealing means and a tamper-evident layer(s) between the sealing means and plastic pocket for visually determining when tampering has occurred, said means becoming disrupted and visually distorted when a tamper attempt has been made on the flap of the envelope and another tamper-evident layer(s) on the region of the plastic material where the seal is to be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Makowka
  • Patent number: 4826011
    Abstract: Gas-sealed pack for receiving pieces of a material such as chocolate tablettes. It consists of an envelope (9) of a flat and foldable material, having two edge regions (6, 6') inside which is located a detachable joining strip (7) to provide a sealed closure, preferably by cold sealing. These edge regions are folded back onto the upper surface of the envelope (9). The outside of the edge region (6'), which is applied to the top surface of the envelope (9), is linked at least on part of its surface with the surface of the envelope (9) preferably by means of a hot melting adhesive. The other edge region (6), which is not connected to the upper surface of the envelope (9), does not extend as far as the joining strip (7). A fold (3) is preferably arranged on this edge. The inner surfaces of the envelope are joined by cold sealing. Thus the pack is preferably designed in a tubular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Folienwalzwerk Bruder Teich AG
    Inventor: Wilfried Jud
  • Patent number: 4807806
    Abstract: A display-mailer assembly in which a display card, having an object to be displayed fastened thereto, is inserted in an outer envelope of a transparent material for containing the display card during display. The envelope is quick-detachably fastened to retain the display card in the envelope and manually activated adhesive is provided on the envelope to enable the display card to be sealed in the envelope after it has been removed therefrom and addressed, to enable the assembly to be mailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Inventor: Conrad Neiman
  • Patent number: 4795287
    Abstract: For use in a ring binder a holder for loose sheets formed of a blank folded on transverse hinge lines to form a pocket at its lower end extending across the blank and if desired a small pocket similarly formed at an upper corner. The folded portions have one common lateral edge through which a plurality of holes are formed, conforming in size and spacing to the rings of a ring type fastener so that when placed in the ring fastener the pockets are closed along at least that side. Additional closures are provided at the opposite sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Inventor: Michael N. Friedman
  • Patent number: 4785940
    Abstract: A flexible bag having front and back panels sealed along bottom and side edges. A pressure sensitive adhesive closure strip is adhered to the back panel and to the rear surface of the front panel. The front panel includes a transverse separation line intermediate the bottom edge of the bag and the closure strip. A portion of the front panel above the separation line may be removed from the bag so as to expose the closure strip for securing the back panel to the front surface of the front panel for closing the top of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Shari J. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4759643
    Abstract: A self-sealing envelope in which the opening is defined between a taller flap and a shorter flap and the height of the shorter flap is such that when a protective peal-off tape is removed from a band of pressure sensitive material extending across the taller flap, the upper end of the shorter flap adheres to the lower region of the pressure sensitive band to seal the closure, leaving exposed the upper region of the adhesive band so that when the upper end of the envelope is folded down above the contents, the exposed adhesive band will adhere to the surface of the envelope across the width of the taller flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Equitable Bag Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonard E. Canno
  • Patent number: 4738366
    Abstract: A light-proof tearable sheathing for a pack of photographic or X-ray sheet films insertable in a film supply magazine of a film cassette-loading device includes a winding flap which is wound on a shaft of the winding device to pull the sheathing from the film pack, a folded connection flap opposite to the winding flap and glued to the sheathing by a glue tape, and a tearing tape provided between two spaced strips of the glue tape and tearable from the sheathing to open the latter for the removal therefrom of individual film sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Manfred Schmidt, Dirk Peeters, Emiel Wollaert, Johann Zanner
  • Patent number: 4709399
    Abstract: A container of synthetic plastics film material is provided with a re-sealable closure in the form of a re-usable adhesive tape which bridges an opening so as to form an airtight closure. The container is opened by peeling the tape from a surface with which the tape is in contact and the container is re-closed by reapplying the tape to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Beiersdorf A.G.
    Inventor: Bernard Sanders
  • Patent number: 4691370
    Abstract: A bulk material bag includes an inner bag united with a cover bag. One tape of a closed slide fastener overlaps the interior of an inner bag rear top extension and is secured thereto. The top extension, together with the attached closed slide fastener and a rear top cover bag flap is folded over the front face of the cover bag and the second tape of the slide fastener is secured to the front face of the cover bag and the flap is secured to the front face of the cover bag and covers and protects the slide fastener until the initial opening of the bulk material bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Talon, Inc.
    Inventor: Norman W. MacFee
  • Patent number: 4679688
    Abstract: The invention relates to a package with shock-absorbing material for shipment of risk samples contained, for instance, in a primary package. The package of the invention includes a shock-absorbing, translucent inner casing with liquid-absorbing material therein and a partly translucent outer casing with a cover flap which seals both the inner and outer casings. A specification or other document may be inserted in a compartment intermediate the respective casings, and means are provided to prevent reading of the document from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1987
    Inventors: Jan Soderholm, Hugo Cedraeus
  • Patent number: 4590610
    Abstract: Two hangable display packages, one being a plastic bag container and the other a cardboard box container, have a separate rigid plastic hanger for hanging on a rod or the like of a display rack. The plastic bag is of a different material than the plastic hanger which is disposed within a pocket formed at the top of the bag with the hook portion of the hanger extending through a hole in the top peripheral edge of the bag, and the bag has layers thereof bonded together slightly below the lower edges of arms of the hanger to entrap the hanger within the bag. A method of forming the hangable package by properly positioning the hanger within the bag and bonding the layers of the bag together while the top edge of the hanger arms are properly positioned against the top peripheral edge of the bag is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Rhyne & Company
    Inventor: Steven B. Rhyne
  • Patent number: 4580683
    Abstract: A shipping enclosure in the nature of an envelope includes a sealing flap of greater width than the envelope adapted to be folded over the mouth of the envelope, the flap including extensions arranged to be bonded to the face of the envelope opposite the face defining the primary seal. A tear strip is interposed between the hinge connection of the flap to the envelope and the bond line for facilitating opening of the envelope, and for encircling and, hence, reenforcing the enclosure mouth prior to opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Jiffy Packaging Corp.
    Inventor: Stanley R. Gochenour
  • Patent number: 4513445
    Abstract: An adhesive closure bag with a Z-folded flap, together with a method of production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Ewald A. Kamp
  • Patent number: 4468811
    Abstract: A pouch comprises two opposed webs having respective side and bottom portions sealed together thereby leaving an unsealed end whereat one of the opposed webs extends beyond the free edge of the other of the opposed webs to form a flap. The flap is foldable onto over an edge portion of the other web. An area of pressure sensitive adhesive, which is disposed on the flap, extends through a position for normal folding of the flap, so that the flap is foldable within the area covered by the adhesive to bring that latter into direct sealing contact at the flap fold.The flap is foldable along a rupturable portion which extends across the width of the flap. The relatively readily rupturable portion, which defines a fold line, comprises a perforated line of weakness or a scored line of weakness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: Smith Brothers (Whitehaven) Limited
    Inventors: Peter M. Shaw, Friedhelm Dahl