US1897018A - Shopping bag - Google Patents

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Feb. 7, 1933. P. E. DRAHEIM 1,897,018

SHOPPING BAG Filed Oct. 10, 1930 INVEN OP;

Patented Feb. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL E. DRAHEIM, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO PAUL KL'UGE AND PAUL KENDZIR, BOTH. OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA SHOPPING BAG- Application filed October 10, 1930. Serial No. 487,760.

This invention relates to devices used for inserting, or placing, or accumulating merchandise, or any small parcels, customarily collected or carried during or from shopping trips.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a container that will readily open in such a manner that parcels may easily be inserted.

Another object is to provide a shopping bag that will automatically close when grasped in a certain manner.

Another object is to provide a shopping bag that can be folded into the possibly smallest parcel when not in use.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claim as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a simple shopping bag in open position designed to operate and to be handled according to this invention.

Fig. 2 rough outline of the coil spring used in the top edge of the shopping bag, illustrating how this spring may be twisted and folded when not in use.

Fig. 3 is a plain connection that may serve as a handle member and at the same time facilitate a connection of the ends of the spring coil.

As illustrated in Fig. 1, one of the principal features of this invention is a coil spring fl, inserted in the top edge of the shopping bag.

This coil spring is preferably endless and of closely wound form, endless for the reason that it will then always tend to spread or open to a circular or round shape as soon as it is released, and closely wound for the reason that it will facilitate a slipping of the attached bag to desired positions and conditions, considering that a closely wound coil forms a suitably smooth surface over which eyes or rings of the shopping bag may slide quickly to desirable positions, while somewhat spaced wound coils might cause trouble in that the netting or other parts of the bag could become caught or entangled between the coils.

At 5, for instance, a few coils are indicated 1 V in such a closely wound manner that the rings 6, preferably used in connection with this bag, will easily slip over the comparatively smooth surface of such a coil to any ]position on the endless coil-edging of the A net 7 is shown attached to the rings 6 in such a manner that it will readily hang from the opened coil-ring-edge a in such a condition that a parcel or any article may easily be inserted into this bag.

From the rough outline in Fig. 2 it will easily be understood that the coil-edge may be twisted so that it will cross as indicated at 8 whereby two practically equal loops 9 and 10 are formed, which in turn may be folded one upon the other in the form of one loop; and, that the folded loops may again be twisted in a similar manner and folded together; and that this may be continued until a comparatively small bundle or parcel is made of the otherwise large coil-edge, around which the netting may easily be rolled to a compact suitably small package that will take up little room.

In this comparatively small form, the shopping bag may be carried in a ladys handbag or in a pocket when not in use.

To one of the rings 6, a string 11 with a ring 12, as a handle, is preferably attached as an additional convenience inasmuch as it serves to facilitate an opening of the shopping bag from the compact small condition. This string with the ring 12 is preferably arranged durin the twisting and rolling of the netting in such a manner that at least the ring 12 still protrudes from the small pack- By grasping the ring 12 and shaking the small package, the whole netting will easily undo, and the coil-edge has the tendency to spread out to the circular and round position in which it is illus trated in Fig. 1, there by making the whole shopping bag automati- When the shopping, either as to single articles or as to the whole shopping trip, has i been completed, the. shopper simply takes hold of any portion of the coil-edge whereupon all the small rings 6 will slip along the coil-edge to the lowermost portion of the coil edge, the coil-edge in this manner forming the handle for the shopping-bag, and the shopping thereby also closing itself automate v ically by the fact that all small rings arrange, themselves closely at the lowermost portion of the hanging coil-edge while so carried by r ,7 the shopper. v Again, a mere grasping of the lowermost portion of the coil-edge, between any two of the small rings while retaining hold ofthe coil-edge in the carrying hand, however bringing. the lowerportion to an evenlevel I with thetcarriedportion,automatically'opens the bag. w 5 g a As long as the small rings 6 are held by thenetting equallyjspaced, the rings have the tendency -to slipv jto positions equally spaced on the coil-edge,i.'especially so when the string p r ll is grasped by the handle ring 12,. since this string is attached to one of therings and the other rings are naturally drawn by the netting to their properly spaced positions on the coil-edge. v v Though the preferable form consists of an endless coil-spring-edge, athandle l3 of the form illustrated in Fig. 3 m'aybe used, having spiral grooves 14in which the ends 15 of the, in this case otherwise disconnected, coil-spring are secured or, applied in such a manner that with thishandleas a connecting link an, endless edge isalsoformed. 7 v 7 Having thus describedymy invention, claim: g r I,

' Ina shopping bag, an edge member of end- I less form made of a coil spring material adapted to, automatically. resume its normal open shape when released, rings slidinglyy disposed on the edge member, a shopping bag proper attached to the rings and, adapted to be. held open bythe edge member, andla handle member attached to one of the rings v 1 v and adapted to facilitate an opening of the -I bag, the edge member being shiftable within i the rings and otherwise exposed to be grasped V at anypointto cause the rings thereonto slide 1 l 7 .so as to close the bag. V 1

p In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I havesigned my name.

, V 'PAUL'E. :DRAHEIM-

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