Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturi – With cutting – breaking – tearing – or abrading
Reexamination Certificate
1998-09-21
2001-05-22
Cherry, Johnny D. (Department: 3652)
Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturi
With cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading
C294S137000, C294S171000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06234946
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to handles for bags or other containers.
More particularly, the invention relates to a grip for a bag with pliable plastic handles.
In another respect, the invention relates to a plastic bag having a pliable thin plastic handle which rolls into a thin strand that injures the hand of a person carrying the bag by holding the handle.
For many years, paper bags were utilized to bag groceries, clothes, and other items purchased in retail stores. In an effort to reduce the consumption of paper and to conserve forest resources, plastic bags came into use. One type of bag widely utilized in grocery stores to pack food articles is a pliable bag made from thin sheet plastic material. While such “standard” plastic bags are lightweight and relatively strong, each standard bag includes a pair of U-shaped handles that are cut from the same thin plastic used to make the remainder of the bag. The handles are typically about an inch wide. When, however, these U-shaped handles are grasped by an individual to carry a standard bag, the handles roll and compress into a thin string-like strand which tends to dig into the hand of an individual, sometimes painfully. In order to remedy this situation, auxiliary handles or grips have been developed which are fabricated from hard plastic or metal, are easily comfortably grasped, and permit the handles of a standard plastic bag to be threaded through the auxiliary grip. Such auxiliary grips do not appear ever to have come into widespread use, likely because the manufacturing cost was prohibitive, and because individuals shopping at a store would rather endure the short-term pain caused by carrying a plastic bag than purchase and carry an auxiliary grip.
Accordingly, it would be highly desirable to provide an improved auxiliary grip which is practical in manufacture and use and which could be utilized in conjunction with plastic shopping bag handles or other bag handles which dig into the hand.
Therefore, it is a principal object of the invention to provide an improved grip for the handle of a bag or other container.
A further object of the invention is to provide an improved grip for use in conjunction with bag handles which injure a user's hand.
Another object of the invention is to provide a grip which after being deformed has memory and returns, at least in part, to its original shape.
Still a further object of the invention is to provide an improved grip which, on being grasped, deforms to produce an opening which traps a bag handle and holds the grip on the bag handle after the grip is released by a user.
Yet a further object of the invention is to provide an improved grip which, when utilized to cradle a bag handle, is deformed by the bag handle to interlock the bag handle with the grip.
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Cherry Johnny D.
Nissle P.C. Tod R.
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