CN1351567A - Reclosable storage bag with color closure indicator - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
- B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
- B65D33/25—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners
- B65D33/2508—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
- B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
- B65D33/18—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices using adhesive applied to integral parts, e.g. to flaps
- B65D33/20—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices using adhesive applied to integral parts, e.g. to flaps using pressure-sensitive adhesive
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
- B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
- B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
- B65D33/25—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners
- B65D33/2508—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor
- B65D33/2541—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor characterised by the slide fastener, e.g. adapted to interlock with a sheet between the interlocking members having sections of particular shape
- B65D33/255—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor characterised by the slide fastener, e.g. adapted to interlock with a sheet between the interlocking members having sections of particular shape being provided with special visual, audible or tactile indicating means, e.g. indicating proper engagement
Abstract
The present invention provides a flexible storage bag (10) having an opening and a closure system (40) for the opening, wherein the closure system provides a high contrast color indication when complete closure of the closure system has been achieved. The closure system may be a mechanical interlocking seal or an adhesive-based closure system. The high contrast color indication may be a change from coloress to colored, from white to black, and/or from translucent to opaque.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to be used in closure on the flexible storage bag usually as those, particularly those be suitable for being used in holding of the various article that comprise easy corrupt material and protect in closure.
Background technology
Be used for holding and protecting of various article, and be known in the art as the flexible storage bag of the preservation of the easy corrupt material of food etc.These sacks are generally the rectangular polymer diaphragm, and himself is folding and along two border seals, and form have two flexible opposing sidewalls, three sealings or folded edge and half packaging container of opening the edge.With the closure (as plastics or paper bag metal filament tether) of integrated closure of sack (as interlocking rib type closure member) or setting separately the storing apparatus assembly is finished.
Be used to refer to and especially repeated warpage or bending by warpage or crooked material at this used term " flexible ", make them can respond institute's externally applied forces and can adapt to and surrender.Thereby, " flexible " roughly opposite with " unbending, rigidity or difficult surrender " on meaning.Therefore, flexible material and structure can change on shape and structure, adapt to external force and match with the body form that will contact with them, and do not damage its integraty.The flexible storage bag of aforesaid kind is made by polymer film usually, and as other member of polyethylene or polyene hydrocarbon system, thickness is about 0.0002 inch to about 0.002 inch.This film usually is transparent, but is opaque and/or coloured sometimes.
The flexible storage bag of present commercial kind provides multiple article and material has been stored in the means that are generally in the disposable storing apparatus easily.Many commercial flexible storage bags utilize mechanical interlocked closure member to realize the sealed of sack opening, and some such sacks easy degree of also utilizing sliding mechanical closure to improve opening of mechanical interlocked closure member and close.No matter use the mechanical lock component of any type, still the problem of Cun Zaiing is, determine whether in fact to have striden across sack and finish fully sealed to realize required shutoff operation.
Exist two kinds of color change systems for this closure in the market.A kind of system relates to blue yellow elements interlock and forms green closure member, and another kind relates to red blue elements interlock and form the purple closure member.Above-mentioned being achieved in that promptly by each side of translucent sawtooth closure is caught a kind of different primary colors, thus when the both sides force together sealed, the light that sees through closure formed transparent color, and this color is by two kinds of original secondary colo(u)rs that primary colors forms.Although provide the color change indication really when finishing when sealing this system, under multiple light condition, it be difficult to color that identification seen by the user be produce by the closure member interlocking or only evenly superpose and produce by the light that passes element.And the crowd that those visions weaken as colour blindness or the reduction of visual discrimination ability only passes through the correctly state of interpretation closure member of eyesight.
Thereby, it is desirable to, provide a kind of and after realizing encapsulation fully, can provide the initiatively closure of indication.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides a kind of flexible storage bag, it has opening, is used to close the closure of opening, and wherein closure provides the indication of high-contrast color when having realized closure complete sealed.Closure can be for mechanical interlocked closure member or based on the closure of adhesive agent.High-contrast color indication can be from colourless to coloured, from white to black and/or variation from translucent to opaque.
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To better understanding be arranged to the present invention according to following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, Reference numeral identical in the accompanying drawing is represented components identical, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the three-dimensional view that adopts the flexible storage bag of closure of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the three-dimensional view that adopts another flexible storage bag of closure of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the transparent view of another flexible storage bag of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the three-dimensional view of another flexible storage bag of the present invention.
The specific embodiment
Fig. 1 has illustrated the preferred embodiment of flexible storage bag 10 of the present invention.In the embodiment shown in fig. 1, flexible storage bag 10 comprises the bag 20 that is formed by a piece of flexible material, and this material piece is folding and along latasuture 24 and 26 self bonding along fold line 22 self, has half packaging container of 30 openings along the edge with formation.Flexible storage bag 10 also comprises near the mechanical lock component 40 that is positioned at the edge 30, is used for closed edge 30, to form the container or the vessel of encapsulation fully shown in Figure 2.Sack such as storage bag among Fig. 1 10 can also be formed by the continuous tube structure of material piece, has cancelled latasuture 24 and 26 thus, and has replaced fold line 22 with end seam.Mechanical lock component 40 comprises the mechanical interlocked closure member with any suitable conventional confguration.
When realizing 40 closures complete sealed, closure 40 of the present invention provides the color indication of high-contrast.This used term " indication of high-contrast color " be used in reference to visual appearance absolute but not the variation of colourity.For example, high-contrast color indication can be from colourless to coloured, from white to black and/or variation from translucent to transparent, rather than the variation of the another kind of color from a kind of color to identical colourity.High-contrast color indication from the one or both sides of sack as seen.
Referring again to Fig. 1, closure 40 provides a kind of like this high-contrast color indication, when user's hand 70 along closure 40 translations, with the opposed member interlocking with mechanical interlocked closure member, its form is for changing to the purple outward appearance that is indicated by Reference numeral 50 from the initially clear/translucent/colorless appearance that is indicated by Reference numeral 60.
Fig. 2 shows similar flexible storage bag 10, and wherein the high-contrast color is designated as from the initial white colored appearance that is indicated by Reference numeral 60 and changes to the appearance of black that is indicated by Reference numeral 50.
Fig. 3 shows the flexible storage bag 10 based on the closure 45 of adhesive agent that utilizes pressure activation, and it provides the high-contrast color indication that changes to the green appearance form that is indicated by Reference numeral 50 from the initially clear/translucent/colorless appearance that is indicated by Reference numeral 60.The suitable closure based on adhesive agent comprises the selectively activated structure that is coated with adhesive agent; it by a plurality of by adhesive kit around compressible, can flatten that bulge is protected in case involuntary contact, and adhesive agent provides the sealed securely sealing when activating.Developed the suitable representational three-dimensional material of the thin layer pressure sensitive adhesives that comprises protected and anti-involuntary contact and the method and apparatus of making this material, and described in detail having in the following patent of commonly-assigned us with the present invention: the title of authorizing Hamilton and McGuire on September 2nd, 1997 is the US Patent 5662758 of " on being pressed in target surface time can be closed to this lip-deep composite material and manufacture method thereof releasedly "; And the title of authorizing Hamilton and McGuire on February 16th, 1999 is the US Patent 5871607 of " having material and manufacture method thereof by the material of deformable bearing protection "; And on November 8th, 1996 having the title of commonly-assigned us with the present invention and be the pending trial U.S. Patent application 08/745339 of " three-dimensional, nested-barrier material sheet and manufacturing method and apparatus thereof " (by) with the application of McGuire, Tweddell and Hamilton name; On November 8th, 1996 with the title of Hamilton and McGuire name application be " improved storage wrap material " 08/745340, all these documents all are incorporated herein by reference.
Fig. 4 is the flexible pouch 10 that is similar to Fig. 1, but adopts the mechanism of sliding mechanical closure (not marking) as sealed interlocked mechanical closure 40.The suitable conventional confguration of the interlocked mechanical closure member type that sliding mechanical closure can adopt for being used for.
Be used to produce with as the material of sack and closure structure, the inclusion that sack will be adorned (that is, food variety, sterilized etc.) and any appropriate device of the high-contrast color indication coordinated mutually of foreseeable environmental conditions all can use.Color and indication can be selected according to sack parts, sack inclusion and used chemistry/structural approach.
For example, from translucent to opaque or the high-contrast color of black indication can realize that this apparent surface has stopped a large amount of light and darker by apparent surface when force together with coating.Another kind of more peculiar mode is to use the polarized light coating, and therefore when coating was separated, it presented complete clear state, and will stop a large amount of light transmission so that they are opaque during force together.
The another kind of appropriate method that produces the indication of high-contrast color is to use the chemical system that produces color when contact via chemical reaction.One of this system comprises microencapsulation phenolphthalein (phenolthalene) solution that is sprayed at closure member one side, and the micro-capsule alkaline solution that is sprayed at opposite side.When force together formed closure member under sufficient pressure in both sides, capsule was with fragmentation, and indicator reacts, and pink colour becomes obvious.If sufficient water can be present in the adhesive agent, then generally can under the situation of no microcapsules, finish.
Another kind of mode is similar to use the ink of the encapsulated that is used for carbon-free form.These can be printed in the texture of the adhesive agent closure relative with adhesive agent and be coated with varnish or other airtight coating, or are printed between adhesive agent and the bag material.For the mechanical lock component, the ink of encapsulated can be arranged between the mechanical interlocked closure member.
The various compositions that are suitable for constructing flexible storage bag of the present invention comprise sir-tight basically material, as polyvinylchloride (PVC), Vingon (PVDC), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), aluminium foil, coating (waxing etc.) and uncoated paper, the non-woven fleece of coating etc., and the infiltrative material of tool basically, such as scrim, mesh, weaven goods, non-woven fleece or membrana perforata or perforated film, no matter and whether they are natural for two-dimensional structure or form three-dimensional structure.These materials can comprise single component or single synusia, can be the composite structures of multiple material perhaps, comprise the substrate material as material carrier.
In case required material piece (comprising all or part of material that is used for bag) is made in certain desirable and suitable mode, sack can be constructed by any known and suitable mode and be formed, and is used to make the sack of commercial form as known in the art.Heat or adhesive agent bonding technology can be used for the various parts of sack or combination of elements to from one's body or be bonded to each other.In addition, bag can be used the molded of thermoplastic shaping, spray moulding or alternate manner, rather than dependence is folding and bonding technology is constructed bag by material roll sheet or thin slice.Two recent US Patent: No. 5554093 and No. 5575747 patent of authorizing people such as Dais on November 19th, 1996 that on September 10th, 1996 was authorized people such as Porchia, be about the illustrated examples of flexible storage bag in the prior art, on overall structure, be similar to those examples shown in Fig. 1 and 2, but the type for seeing at present.
Although have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of the present invention, it is evident that for those of skill in the art various without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention other changes and modification all is feasible.Therefore, the present invention is tending towards covering all changes and the modification in the scope of the invention in appending claims.
Claims (10)
1. flexible storage bag comprises:
(a) has the bag of opening;
(b) be used to close the closure that closes on described opening of described opening;
It is characterized in that described closure provides the indication of high-contrast color when having realized described closure complete sealed.
2. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the degree that described high-contrast color indication has been closed with respect to described closure is progressive finishing.
3. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described closure is mechanical interlocked closure member.
4. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that described closure also comprises sliding mechanical closure.
5. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described closure comprises the closure based on adhesive agent.
6. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the indication of described high-contrast color is colourlessly chosen to coloured, white to black, the translucent group of forming to opaque and their combination from comprising.
7. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described high-contrast color indication realizes via chemical reaction.
8. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described high-contrast color indication realizes via polarisation of light.
9. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described high-contrast color indication realizes via the encapsulated ink.
10. flexible storage bag as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described high-contrast color indication realizes via the coating on the apparent surface.
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