Supports – Bag holders
Patent
1987-09-28
1989-05-23
Foss, J. Franklin
Supports
Bag holders
2483112, B65B 6712
Patent
active
048322903
ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a means of hanging or supporting, flexible plastic bags which have an increased thickness of plastic near the top of the bag. This increased thickness may be processed into the bags for many reasons including, but not limited to; closure mechanisms such as the rib and groove bag closures, handle ridges along the top of the bag, or ridges of slightly thicker plastic wall at the top of the bag due to bag processing methods.
The invention consists of rigid rails on each side of a slot or slots. This slot is wide enough for the thin sides of the plastic bag to pass through but not the greater width of the plastic at the point of increased thickness near the top of the bag. Thus, once inserted, the bag and its contents hang suspended downward from between the rails. The rails can be attached and adjacent to other rails and slot members forming a multiple bag hanger, or there may be only one set of rails with one slot between them, joined by a bridging of some rigid material and allowing the hanging of only one bag. The slot and the rails may be long enough to allow the whole top of the bag to slide, lengthwise, into the slot with some overlap for security. At least one end of the hanger shall be open to receive the bag. The end(s) which are intended to receive the bag may be flared or in some other way enlarged to aid in starting the slide of the plastic wall of the bag into the slot. The hanger would have some means of attaching it to another surface, either removably with a hook or loop on its upper surface intended to allow it to be hung from a bar, rack, or shelf of some kind, or more rigidly as with a multiple hanger clamped under a shelf or fastened with screws or bolts. In this case one end of all the slots would be left open for insertion and removal of bags.
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