B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
D
220/2, 190/137.7
B65D 65/28 (2006.01) B65D 33/08 (2006.01) B65D 75/58 (2006.01) B65D 85/62 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2019715
EASY OPEN FLEXIBLE BAG DELMAR R. MUCKENFUHS ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An easy open flexible bag preferably containing one or more stacks of flexible articles which are maintained in a state of compression in a direction substantially parallel to their thickness. For products such as disposable absorbent baby diapers, catamenial pads, incontinent briefs and the like, the degree of compression within the bag may be as much as 50% or more when compared to the uncompressed thickness of the stack of articles in question. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the bag totally encloses the stack or stacks of compressed flexible articles and exhibits a substantially rectilinear shape. The bag preferably includes an integral carrying handle. The side panels and the front and back panels of the bag are subject to tension imposed by the stack of compressed flexible articles. The top of the bag is closed by forming inwardly folded side gussets and sealing the vertically extending portions of the front and back panels to one another above the uppermost surface of the product contained within the bag. A continuous line of weakness spanning a tensioned side wall of the bag and continuing into the closed uppermost end of the bag is provided. The portion of the line of weakness in the uppermost end of the bag is preferably located near, most preferably slightly inboard of, the innermost portions of the opposed inwardly folded side gussets such that the bag may be easily opened by grasping the outermost edge of the top of the bag and partially separating or completely removing the corner of the bag, along with the included side gusset, along the continuous line of weakness. Partial separation or complete removal of a portion of the tensioned side panel of the bag allows the coinciding portion of the stack of compressed articles to project in fan-like array through the aperture thus created to permit easy one-at-a-time removal.
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
The Procter & Gamble Company
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