US1765539A - Shopping bag - Google Patents

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June 24, 1930. A. POTDEVIN I 1,765,539 I SHOPPING BAG Filed Oct. 12, 1928 A TTORNEY struction and Patented June 24, 1930 ADOLPH PO'IDE'VIN, OI GARDEN CITY,

COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW

NEW YORK, ABSIGNOR T0 POTDEVIN YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK SHOPPING BAG Application filed October 12, 1928. Serial No. 312,005.

This invention'relates to shopping bags of the type wherein a cord is operatively connected with a satchel-bottom bag to afford therefor a carrying element including a pair of handle loops. 1

An ob'ect of my invention is to provide, in

a bag 0 the type referred to, a novel conarrangement of the carrying cord whereby the loops thereof can be uniformly positioned with facility at'the top of the bag irrespective of the form or quantity of the contents of the bag. Another object of my invention is to provide a novel construction of the bottom members of the bag whereby eflicient cord retaining means, integral with the bag members, are provided.

A simple and eflicient form of embodiment of the invention whereby theforegoing objects are attained is herein illustrated, the scope of the invention being defined in the claims. 1

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tubular bag blank wherein the bottom slits and fold lines are indicated.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the slitted outer flap and creased end supplied with pasteand partially folded in the bottom forming operation;

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the next succeeding step in the folding operation.

Fig.4 1s a similar view, partly in section, showing the next succeeding step in the folding operation preparatory to the application of the carrying cord to the bag.

Fig. 5 is a similar view, showing the carrying cord as applied to the ba preparatory to the step of fixedly and slida 1 securing the respective members of the cor to the bottom ofthe ba Fig. 6 1s a similar view, showing one of the members of the cord slidably secured to the bottom of the bag.

Fig. 7 is a view of the completed bag in .open condition.

Fig. 8 is a longitudinal vertical section through the bottom of the bag.

Figs. 9 and 10 are details of the overlapping and fastened ends of the cord.

. edges, as at permit extended at their upper The bit herein illustrated comprises a front n 11, a bao 12, and a satchel bottom 13, which bottom when the bag is empty and collapsed is foldable against one side of the bag as usual. This bag is composed of a flat tubular body of paper, or other suitable material, hav ng at one end thereof pairs of parallel longitudinal slits 14 between which central flaps 15, 16 are formed. In the manufacture of the bagthese flaps are held at their free ends and pulled longitudinally of the body of the bag In opposite directions to each other,

thus drawing the opposite end portions of the body into bottom folds 17 of general V formatlon, from which the flaps 15, 16 extend outwardly, as represented in Fi 2. These flaps are then folded one upon t e other and secured together and to the bottom folds, suitably-disposed areas of aste 18 having been previously applied to t e upper surfaces of the flip 16 and the folds 17.

In ig. 3 the flap 15 is shown as folded and secured to the underlying bottom folds, prepa'ratory to the folding of the flap 16, and in Fig. 4 the latter flap is shown as folded to complete the formatlon of the bag bottom.

According to a feature of my invention the 16 is transversely slitted to a suit able extent inward from its respective lateral 19, to form a pair of supplemental tongues 20, 21 which may be flexed toward and from the bag bottom when themain body of the flap 16 is folded and secured in place, it being noted that the paste is applied to the flap 16, as indicated at 22 Figs. 2 and 3, to the flexing of the tongues. These tongues aflord simple and eflicient means for securing an endless carrying cord to the bottom of the bag as will presently appear.

The front'and back of the bag'blank are ends, as at 23, and the extensions are inwardly folded and may be pasted to the front and back respectively, thus reinforcing the margins of the bag. These reinforced mar ins are provided with corresponding pairs ofspaced-apart perforations 24. The front and back are also provided with similar pairs of perforations 25 below the perforations 24, said perforations 25 being somewhat above the upper edge of i upward and the end passed to the exterior the end the perforations in the back of the bag, wherev the bag bottom when the latter is folded flatcarrying cord 26 of suitable length is applied to the foregoing described bag as follows, reference being had more especial- 1y to Fig. 5.. One end of the cord is passed into the interior of the bag through one of the lower rforations on one side, say the back, 0 the bag. The cord is then drawn the bag through the aligning upper perforation 24 at the top of the same side of the bag. The end of the cord is then passed lnto the interior of the bag through the adjacent upper perforation 24 in the same side of. thebag, and the cord is drawn downward and plassed to theexterior of the bag throught same side of'the bag. e cord is then drawn downward and around the bottom of the bag and upward. The end isthen passed into the interior of the bag throu h one of the perforations25on' the other si e, say the front, of the bag,- and is threaded through the remaining perforations of the latter in} the same order as described with-respectto upon the leading end of the cord meets the other or trailing end of the cord at the bottom of the bag and the two ends are fastenedtogether,- thus producing an endless carrying 1 cord embodyin two longitudinal suspension members on cue side thereof, handle loops 27 at the tops of the respective sides, and spaced apart transverse supporting loops 28 at the bottom of the bag.

The overlapping ends 29 of'the cord are fastened together, preferably by spaced-apart wire staples 30 applied thereto and clinched, as seen in Figs. 9 and 10. The connected ends are place upon and transversely of the bottom of the bag in close relation to the tongue 20, which tongue, being coated on its underside with paste 31, (Fig. 6) is folded upon and pasted to such ends and the bottom fold 15, thereby fixedly securing the cord to the latter. The adjacent parallel member of the cord is located upon and transversely of the bottom of the bag in close relation to the tongue 21 and the latter is then folded over the cord and pasted to the bottom fold 15, only that portion of the tongue 21 in contact with the fold 15 being provided with paste, as indicated at 32, Fig. 5. Hence the lc)ord is slidably secured to the bottom of the From the foregoing it will be seen that my invention provides a simple and handy shopping bag wherein the two spaced-apart supporting strands which extend transversely of the bottom of the bag are fixedly and slidably secured to the bottom, respectively, thus permitting the ready manipulation of the endlem carrying cord to ensure the proper thereto.

and pasted by machine, with the tongues free to be pasted down'after the bottomof the bag has dried and the cord has been applie It Will also 1.1. seen that by the described formation and arrangement of the tongues in relation to the bottom flaps the two spaced supporting strands of the cord, when it is p I v applied to the bag, extend across the respec 9 other lower 'erforation25, in the tive overlapping flapsthroughout the width of the .bag bottom, thus'contributing to the strength of the flaps and their paste connectudinally of the side walls and transversely 'ofthe bottom of the bag, the bottom strands of the cord being spaced-apart and interposed between the inner flap and the respective tongues of the outerflap,'and the said tongues being fastened to the said inner flap in a manner to secure the cord to the bag bottom.

2.. A shopping bag com rising side walls, a satchel'bottom therefor, including overlapping sealingl flaps whereof the outer flap is formed wit spacedapart flexible tongues,

and an endless carrying cord looped at the upper end of, the bag at the respective sides thereof and extended through and longitudihall of the side walls and transversel of the ottom of the bag, the bottom stran s of.

the cord being spaced-apart and interposed between the inner flap and the respective tongues of the outer flap, one of said tongues being fastened to the adjacent strand and the inner flap, and the other ton fastened to theinner flap only an securing e being the adjacent strandslidably the bag bottom.

Y 3. A shoppingbag'com sidewalls, a satchel bottom therefor, inclu mg overlappingsealinglfla'ps whereof the outer flap is formed wit spaced-apart flexible tongues, and a carryinglcord looped at the upper end of the bag at t e respective sides thereof and extended through-and longitudinally of the side walls and transversely of the bottom of the bag, the ends of the cords being overlapped and united, said united ends being fixedly secured by and between the inner flap and the adjacent tongue of the outer flap,

and a spaced portion of the cord being slidably secured y and between the inner flap and the other ton e.

4. A shopping ag comprising side walls having pairs of perforations therein, a satchel bottom, and an endless carryin cord looped at the upper end of the respectlve side walls of the bag and threaded through the periterations to extend longitudinally of the side Walls and transversely of the bottom at spaced locations, said bottom including an outer fla havmg spaced apart integral ton es w ereby said cord is fixedly secured to t 0 bottom at one location and is slidably 15 secured to the bottom at the other location. Signed at the city of New York, in the count of Kings and State of New York, this 7 10th ay of October A. D. 1928. i

a ADOLPH POTDEVIN.

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