US2712410A - Paper bag with flap providing ticket retainer - Google Patents

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July 5, 1955 G. w. POPPE PAPER BAG WITH FLAP PROVIDING TICKET RETAINER Filed April 29, 1952 INVENTOR. GEORGE W. PoPPE MW ATTORNEYS.

United Patent PAPER BAG FLAP PRGVIDING TICKET RETAINER George W. Poppa, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Equitable Paper Bag Co. ind, Long Isiand City, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application April 29, 1952, Serial No. 284,964

1 Claim. (Cl. 229-70) This invention relates to a paper bag adapted to be used under conditions requiring the attachment of a ticket, memorandum slip or the like to the bag. Usually a piece of paper carrying the data is folded into the form of a strip and it is conventionally attached to the bag by the use of a common pin which is considered disadvantageous in many instances.

One of the objects is to provide a paper bag which ma be made as inexpensively as a conventional paper bag yet which will provide inherently for the attachment of the ticket to the bag. Another object is to provide a bag having a mouth closing flap and, without materially increasing the conventional cost of making the bag, with the flap provided with an arrangement for retaining the ticket.

A specific example of the invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the bag;

Fig. 2 is a back view, this view showing only the upper portion of the bag;

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on the line 33 in Fig. l; and

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the line 44 in Fig. 1.

The illustrated paper bag has a front wall 1 and a back wall 2, these walls being mutually opposed and defining a flat mouth through which merchandise and the like may be placed in the bag. A fiap 3 extends from the back wall 2 and is foldable down over the front wall 1 to close the mouth.

This flap has laterally spaced longitudinally extending slits 4 formed therethrough. Both the bag walls and flap have lines of severance defining cooperative flap locking means 5. This locking means is formed by the lines of severance through the flap and bag walls being arranged to define shouldered tongues, which are the means 5, having foldable bases 6 along which the lines of severance partly extend from each end so that the tongues are actually shouldered tongues. The tongues taper from the bases 6, being of trapezoidal shapes with the bases the widest parts, and the tongues are arranged on the flap and bag walls respectively so that when the flap is folded closed its tongue points oppositely to the bag pointing directions of the wall tongues.

All of the tongues register mutually when the bag flap is closed. Prior to use of the bag the tongues lie flush with their respective parts, this being prior to folding of the tongues. Also prior to use the flap 3 normally extends straight away from the bag Wall 2.

As shown by Fig. l the slits 4 are parallel to each other and to the side edges of the bag, and they are relatively short and are positioned close to the fold lines of the bag flap. The tongues are all arranged below transverse alignment with the slits. In other words, a trans- 2,712,410 Fatented July 5, 1955 verse or horizontal line touching the bottoms of the slits is slightly above the upper levels of the various tongues, although it is conceivable that this alignment may be shifted somewhat without affecting the use of the bag.

In use the merchandise is thrust through the mouth of the bag and the flap 3 is folded closed as shown by the drawings. Either before or after folding the flap the ticket strip 7 has its ends folded in the same directions to form legs and these legs are thrust through the slits 4 so that when the flap is folded the leg ends are locked between the inside of the flap and the outside of the wall 1. Preferably the tongues are then pushed from the front of the bag towards its back wall 2 so that the tongues formed by the flap pass through the openings resulting from displacement of all of the tongues, with their shouldered bases snapping behind the wall 2 because of the narrower dimensions of the bag wall openings at their tops. Then by pushing the remaining tongues, formed by the walls from the back of the bag toward the front wall 1, these remaining tongues correspondingly snap over the front of the flap 3 as shown by Fig. 1. Thus the flap 3 is locked shut or closed against the face or front wall 1 of the bag.

It is obvious from the above that the ticket or other strip 7 is firmly anchored and retained to the flap of the bag. At the same time, no additional parts have been added to What may be an otherwise conventional bag construction. All that is necessary is to provide an automatic bag making machine with an appropriate die cutting roll for cutting the slits 4 and the lines of severance defining the tongues 5. Ordinarily this will be done to the bag web prior to tubing and at appropriate locations so that the finished bag is as shown and described. Thus the stated objectives of the invention are achieved.

I claim:

A paper bag including opposed walls defining a mouth, a flap extending from one of said walls and folded down wardly and superimposed on the outside of the other of said walls to close said month, said flap having a plurality of transversely interspaced longitudinally extending lines of severance formed therethrough, a ticket spanning transversely between said lines on the outside of said flap and having end portions extended through said lines and reversely folded at said lines so as to extend towards each other between said flap and sad wall on which it is superimposed, and means for locking said flap flatly against said wall on which it is superimposed so as to restrain said tickets end portions from unfolding and thus lock said ticket to said flap, said lines of severance being spaced apart transversely for an extended distance so that an extended portion of said ticket spans therebetween where it is exposed for visual examination, said locking means being spaced from said lines and being offset from said ticket.

References Qited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,507,156 Bunker et a1. Sept. 2, 1924 1,629,852 Wolf May 24, 1927 2,285,807 Cloutier June 9, 1942 2,446,001 Elwell July 27, 1948 FOREIGN PATENTS 535,463 France Jan. 25, 1922

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