Flexible bags – With means to maintain the bag mouth in an open configuration
Patent
1994-05-20
1995-12-26
Pascua, Jes F.
Flexible bags
With means to maintain the bag mouth in an open configuration
383 37, 248 99, 220404, B65D 3314
Patent
active
054781523
ABSTRACT:
A locking system for releasably holding open the opening of a plastic film bag, composed generally of a first locking element extending from the external surface of the plastic film bag adjacent the opening thereof and a second locking element extending from a shape defining structure. The first locking element lockably mates with the second locking element in a male-female fashion either by pressing them mutually together or by sliding one into the other. The shape defining structure may be a ring member of a sidewall of a trash receptacle or of a removable lid therefor, or some other structure, such as a free standing ring member which may or may not be of circular shape. The first and second locking elements may be configured in a number of different forms in order to accomplish the aforesaid mutual interlocking function. For example, a T-shaped tongue element extending from the exterior sidewall of the plastic film bag and a female groove having opposing bosses separated by a slot provided on the shape defining structure, wherein the T-shaped tongue element is slid into or out of the female groove in order to selectively hold open the plastic film bag. As another example, the first and second elements may be in the form of a bulbous male rib and female socket arrangement, wherein alignment guides may be optionally provided to assist aligning of the first and second elements.
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Pascua Jes F.
Sadowski Jeffrey A.
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