Flexible bags – With means to maintain the bag mouth in an open configuration
Patent
1991-02-15
1992-11-03
Marcus, Stephen
Flexible bags
With means to maintain the bag mouth in an open configuration
383 43, 383 71, 383 76, B65D 3328, B65D 3330
Patent
active
051601966
ABSTRACT:
A large plastic lawn or trash bag is provided including a tubular hem extending about its open end. An access opening is formed at one point about the hem opening thereinto and a plurality of pairs of registered openings are formed through the bag and the material defining the free marginal edge of the hem along the path the free marginal portion of the hem is secured to the bag. An elongated stiff but flexive reinforcing strip is provided of a length somewhat greater than the length of the periphery of the open end of the bag and the opposite ends of the strip are provided with coacting structure by which the opposite ends may be secured together in adjusted overlapped relation. The reinforcing strip may be inserted into the hem through the access openings thereof and have its opposite ends releasably secured together with the reinforcing strip serving to maintain the open end of the bag open or, alternatively, the strip may be threaded through the registered openings and thereafter have its ends removably secured together so as to function as a reinforcement strip to maintain the open end of the bag open. The reinforcing strip is arcuate in transverse cross section in order to increase the stiffness thereof when functioning as a reinforcing strip, but the arcuate strip is only appoximately 30 degrees in angular extent to enable the strip to be coiled into a coil of a diameter no more than one-tenth the length of the reinforcing strip to thereby enable the strip to be readily packaged within a package containing a plurality of folded bags with which the strip ultimately is to be used.
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Marcus Stephen
Pascua Jes F.
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