JP2005280813A - Rubber band for freely opening/closing bag, and method for using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubber band which firmly closes the opening of a bag, and opens/closes a bag freely. <P>SOLUTION: Three inside points of a ring-shaped rubber band 3 are gathered to be adhered, and the band 3 is folded back at the three middle points between each of the points to form three U-shaped branch parts; that is, the longest first branch part 5, the second branch part 7 big enough for the part 5 to go through its U-shaped inside, and the third brand part 9 whose U-shaped inside is adhered are formed. A double sided tape 11 is attached between the part 5 and the part 7. A tape 13 is applied to the outer face of the part 9. The part 5 formed in a rubber band 1 for opening/closing a bag freely is wound around the side face of the gathered opening of a bag, the tip end of the part 5 is inserted in the U-shape of the part 7 to be wound back in a direction opposite to the direction of winding to be hooked to the part 9. In this way, because of the elasticity and friction of the band 3, the opening of the bag is closed firmly. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a rubber band for closing a mouth of a trash bag to be opened to a garbage collection place, for example.

  For example, the mouth of a garbage bag that is put out at a garbage collection site may seriously damage the crows if odors such as raw garbage leak, and it is necessary to close the mouth firmly. In the past, the mouth was pulled and tied, but it was incomplete from the standpoint of not producing odors, and was wrapped with gummed tape to close it.

However, if you use gum tape, you will not be able to open the mouth even if you try to put the garbage that comes out later into the same garbage bag again.
On the other hand, the thing which freely opened and closed the opening | mouth part of a garbage bag using the string containing an iron wire is proposed conventionally.
Utility Model Registration No. 3002689

  However, a string containing an iron wire has a problem that if the closing force is increased, the iron wire must be strongly twisted, and if it is strongly twisted, the operation is troublesome when it is now opened.

Further, such a problem exists not only in the garbage bag in which the smell of raw garbage or the like becomes a problem, but also in other bags that are opened and closed. In other words, bags that store food in refrigerators, bags that contain sweets that easily absorb moisture, bags that contain pickles that have a problem of strong odor leaking to the outside, foods that become inconvenient to dry It is a bag to put.
In order to solve the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a bag opening and closing rubber band that can close the mouth of a bag such as a garbage bag and is easy to operate.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the first invention collects three points on the inner side of the ring-shaped rubber band, bonds them, and folds them at three intermediate positions between these points, thereby forming three U-shaped ones. A bag openable / closable rubber band characterized in that a branch portion is formed.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, the three branch portions are the longest first branch portion, and a second branch portion having a size that allows a U-shaped interior to pass through the tip of the first branch portion, A U-shaped inner part, and a double-sided tape is affixed between the first branch part and the second branch part, and a tape is attached to the outer surface of the third branch part. This is a bag openable / closable rubber band characterized by being stretched.
The third invention uses the first openable rubber band of the first invention, the first procedure of winding one of the three branches around the narrowed mouth of the bag, The second step of passing the tip of the first branch part through the U-shape of the other second branch part adjacent in the winding direction, and the tip of the first branch part as the winding direction The bag can be opened and closed freely, comprising: a third step of rewinding in the opposite direction and hooking the U-shaped tip of the first branch to another third branch adjacent to the rewind direction. This is how to use a rubber band.
4th invention uses the bag openable rubber band of 2nd invention, adhere | attaches the said double-sided tape on the side surface of the mouth part which squeezed the bag, and winds the 1st branch part of the said 3 branch parts A first step, a second step of passing the tip of the first branch portion through a U-shape of another second branch portion adjacent in the winding direction, and a further step of the first branch portion. Rewinding the tip in a direction opposite to the winding direction, and hooking the U-shaped tip of the first branch to another third branch adjacent to the rewind direction. It is the usage method of the bag openable rubber band characterized by the above.

  According to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th invention, the 1st branch part formed in a bag openable rubber band is wound around the side of the mouth part which the bag squeezed, and the tip is the 2nd Passing through the U-shape of the branch part, rewinding in the direction opposite to the winding direction, and hooking on the third branch part, the mouth part of the bag can be easily opened with the elastic force and frictional force of the rubber band Can close strongly. Moreover, it can be opened easily.

  According to the second or fourth invention, the bag open / close rubber band can be attached to the bag by adhering the double sided tape of the bag open / close rubber band to the side of the mouth of the bag. When opening the mouth of the bag, the rubber band that can freely open and close the bag is not lost.

An embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
First, the manufacturing method of the bag openable / closable rubber band 1 according to this embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 3 (A), a belt-shaped and ring-shaped rubber band 3 having a predetermined width is prepared. The width is 6 mm, for example, and the total length of the ring shape is 200 mm. Next, as shown in FIGS. 3B and 3C, the three points P1, P2, and P3 inside the rubber band 3 are collected and adhered with an adhesive 4 such as Aron Alpha. As a result, three U-shaped branches 5, 7, and 9 are formed by folding back at three intermediate positions B1, B2, and B3 between these points P1, P2, and P3. Among these branches, the longest first branch 5 is almost U-shaped closed using the adhesive 4 and has a length of 63 mm, for example. The second branch 7 has a ring shape with the U-shaped interior opened, and the ring-shaped interior has a sufficient size to allow the tip of the first branch 5 to pass through. The total length of the ring is 37 mm, for example. The third branch portion 9 has a U-shaped interior that is completely bonded and hardened, and has a length of, for example, 10 mm. At this time, as shown in FIG. 3B, if the third branch portion 9 is bonded first, the manufacturing is easy.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 3C, a double-sided tape 11 having a width of 6 mm and a length of 20 mm, for example, is attached between the first branch portion 5 and the second branch portion 7. Further, as shown in FIG. 3D, a conspicuous color tape 13 is applied to the outer surface of the third branch portion 9, and the hardness of the tape 13 is added, so that the third branch portion 9 is further hardened. Thus, it becomes easy to hook the U-shaped tip of the first branch portion 5.

`` Open / close operation ''
The operation of closing the mouth of the garbage bag 15 using the bag openable / closable rubber band 1 according to this embodiment will be described. First, as shown in FIG. 1A, a double-sided tape 11 is adhered to the side surface of the mouth portion of the garbage bag 15, and the bag openable / closable rubber band 1 is attached substantially horizontally. Then, one of the three branches is wound clockwise in the direction in which the tip of the first branch 5 extends (the left direction in the figure).

  Next, as shown in FIG. 1 (B), the tip of the first branch portion 5 is connected to the first branch portion 5 in the U-shape of another second branch portion 7 adjacent in the winding direction (clockwise direction). Pass into the shape. Further, as shown in FIGS. 1B and 1C, the tip of the first branch portion 5 passing through the second branch portion 7 is rewound in a direction opposite to the winding direction (counterclockwise direction). Further, the U-shaped tip of the first branch portion 5 is hooked to another third branch portion 9 adjacent in the rewinding direction (counterclockwise direction) as shown in FIG. The third branch portion 9 is hardened by the adhesive and the tape 13, and it is easy to hook the U-shaped tip of the first branch portion 5. FIG. 2 shows a state where the operation for closing the mouth of the garbage bag is completed.

  On the contrary, the operation of opening the mouth portion of the garbage bag 15 is performed in reverse of the operations shown in FIGS. At this time, after removing the U-shaped tip of the first branch portion 5 from the third branch portion 9, the first branch portion 5 is strongly pulled in the winding direction (clockwise direction), thereby Since the second branch part 7 that has remained on the branch part 5 is easily loosened, the second branch part 7 can be easily detached from the first branch part 5 by moving the loosened second branch part 7 in the winding direction (clockwise direction). .

"Effect of the embodiment"
According to this embodiment, the bag openable rubber band 1 can be easily attached to the garbage bag 15 by adhering the double-sided tape 11 of the bag openable rubber band 1 to the side surface of the mouth portion of the garbage bag 15. . Therefore, even when the mouth of the garbage bag 15 is opened, the bag openable / closable rubber band 1 remains attached and cannot be lost.

  Furthermore, the mouth of the garbage bag 15 can be strongly closed by the elastic force and frictional force of the rubber band 3. In particular, the end of the first branch portion 5 that has passed through the second branch portion 7 is rewound in the direction opposite to the winding direction (counterclockwise direction), so that the U-shaped inner side of the second branch portion 7 is restored. The portion and the outer portion of the first branch portion 5 remain with a strong frictional force, and the mouth portion of the garbage bag 15 can be strongly closed while the elastic force of the rubber band 3 is still working.

"Other embodiments"
In the above embodiment, the three branch portions have different lengths and shapes from each other. However, in other embodiments, the three branch portions may have the same length and shape.
Further, in the above embodiment, the third branch portion 9 is hardened by the adhesive and the tape 13, but in other embodiments, it is not necessary to make it harder by increasing the length. The U-shaped tip of the first branch portion 5 can be easily hooked.

  In the above embodiment, the garbage bag in which the smell of garbage etc. is a problem has been described. However, in other embodiments, the present invention can be implemented for other bags that are opened and closed. In other words, bags that store food in refrigerators, bags that contain sweets that easily absorb moisture, bags that contain pickles that have a strong odor that leaks to the outside, and foods that become problematic when they become dry It is a bag to put.

(A), (B), (C), and (D) are perspective views sequentially illustrating operations for closing the mouth portion of the garbage bag by the bag openable / closable rubber band according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is a perspective view which shows the state which the operation which closes the opening | mouth part of a garbage bag was completed by FIG. (A) (B) (C) (D) is a figure which shows manufacture of the bag openable rubber band which shows one Embodiment of this invention in order.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Bag openable rubber band, 3 ... Rubber band, 5 ... 1st branch part, 7 ... 2nd branch part, 9 ... 3rd branch part, 11 ... Double-sided tape, 13 ... Tape.

Claims (4)

3 points on the inside of the ring-shaped rubber band are collected and bonded together, and folded at three intermediate positions between these points to form three U-shaped branches that can be opened and closed freely. rubber band. The three branch parts are the longest first branch part, the second branch part having a size that allows the U-shaped interior to pass through the tip of the first branch part, and the U-shaped interior. A double-sided tape is attached between the first branch portion and the second branch portion, and a tape is stretched on the outer surface of the third branch portion. The bag openable / closable rubber band according to claim 1. A first procedure of winding one first branch of the three branches around the side of the mouth portion of the bag, using the bag openable / closable rubber band according to claim 1, A second step of passing the tip of one branch through the U-shape of another second branch adjacent to the winding direction; and a direction opposite to the winding direction of the tip of the first branch And a third step of hooking the U-shaped tip of the first branch to another third branch adjacent to the rewind direction. how to use. A first procedure of using the bag openable / closable rubber band according to claim 2 and bonding the double-sided tape to a side surface of the mouth portion of the bag and winding one of the three branches. Then, the second step of passing the tip of the first branch through the U-shape of the other second branch adjacent in the winding direction, and the tip of the first branch A third step of rewinding in a direction opposite to the direction of winding and hooking the U-shaped tip of the first branch to another third branch adjacent to the unwinding direction. How to use a rubber band that can be opened and closed.

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