Flexible bags – Compartmented
Patent
1998-11-20
2000-03-14
Pascua, Jes F.
Flexible bags
Compartmented
383 37, B65D 3022
Patent
active
060363630
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a device for sorting refuse, household garbage, and the like in a receptacle, a holding device, or the like and for separate disposal, having at least two separably interconnected sackshaped sheet plastic compartments.
A device such as this with two or more compartments is known (EP-A-0 614 829), one in which the upper areas of the compartments effect transition to one common area which does not, however, prevent refuse from falling into compartments into which it is not intended to fall.
A device for presorting household garbage is known (DE 36 32 721 A1); in it individual replaceable garbage bags are suspended in a holding device, the garbage bags consisting of at least two separable component bags separated from each other and forming garbage compartments. The bag components are separably connected to each other along their lengthwise edges, and another separable junction point is present in the center where all the component bags come together. A device with three garbage components is thereby formed. Of course, it is not possible with this embodiment to fold the interconnected component bags over the edge of a receptacle or a holding device because the component bags are joined together. Slots or slotlike openings into which garbage can be introduced inadvertently are present in the upper intermediate areas between adjacent component bags.
As they are filled, the bags slide into the container and then can no longer be filled.
A refuse container is also known (DE 40 37 009 A1) in which a cylindrical container is employed which is slotted on its circumference for the purpose of receiving two separate plastic garbage bags at two diametrically opposite points. Two bags can be accommodated in the container, the top edge of the bags being folded over the container. It is, of course, a disadvantage in this instance that a slotlike opening into which garbage may be inadvertently introduced and then collect outside the two garbage bags may be formed in the central area between the top edges of the bags. In addition, the container itself is not suitable for separation and presorting of household garbage without the use of garbage bags. Nor is it designed to be disposed of along with garbage.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is concerned with the problem of designing a device such as that indicated in the foregoing so that a garbage bag is formed which may be transported as a unit and on the spot folded over the edge of a container or a holding device without the need for procuring a new container. After use the garbage bag may be removed as an individual element and it may then be used for waste disposal. However, separation of the individual compartments of the garbage bags at the separation points provided for the purpose and separate disposal are also conceivable.
The device claimed for the invention is in the form of trousers, that is, an article of clothing serving to cover the hips and the legs, when one assumes a device with two sacklike compartments. A device such as this accordingly has an upper cylindrical area from which the two also cylindrical sacklike compartments extend downward, a gusset, that is, an element connecting the two sacklike components, being formed in the intermediate area. The term "gusset" is used in this sense for this invention in order to express the fact that the sacklike components are joined together at this point, but of course in such a way that they can be separated from each other again at this point. All state-of-the-art processes, especially cementing or bonding together, may be considered as potential joining methods.
In a preferred embodiment the area to which the individual sacklike compartments make a transition is cylindrical or columnar in shape. Other cross-sectional shapes are also possible, of course, such as rectangular cross-sections, specifically when three or more sacklike compartments are to be positioned side by side.
All conceivable plastics may be considered as sheet material, especially one
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