US3485413A - Package containing large size,flat,flexible articles - Google Patents

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US3485413A
US3485413A US737948A US3485413DA US3485413A US 3485413 A US3485413 A US 3485413A US 737948 A US737948 A US 737948A US 3485413D A US3485413D A US 3485413DA US 3485413 A US3485413 A US 3485413A
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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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/08—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession
    • B65D83/0894—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession the articles being positioned relative to one another or to the container in a special way, e.g. for facilitating dispensing, without additional support
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/14—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form
    • B65B25/145—Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form packaging folded articles

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  • the present invention relates to a package article comprising a dispensing carton containing a stack of large size flat articles made of flexible sheet material and to a method for producing such package article.
  • Flat articles made of flexible sheet material such as sandwich bags or napkins, for example, are commonly provided in a dispensing carton in which they may be stacked in their flat condition.
  • the front wall, or the top wall, of the carton is preferably provided with a tear strip.
  • An open slot is formed in the carton when the tear strip is removed to permit grasping of the bag, or the napkin on top of the stack Within the carton.
  • Such articles are also provided in cartons having dispensing aids, particularly in the case of plastic sandwich bags.
  • a sheet of cardboard or the like sometimes referred to as an insert member, is provided within the carton and the bags are folded about it in such manner that the cardboard sheet urges the bags toward a slot in the carton.
  • the articles are in the form of a continuous length, each article being separated from adjacent articles by a perforated line.
  • the continuous length is wrapped around a core of cardboard or the like.
  • the bags are separated from the continuous length by pulling along the perforated line.
  • the plastic material may also be produced in the form of yarns or of strips which are used to make a strong, andyet, flexible fabric, particularly desirable in the manufacture of heavy duty bags. Because of their dimensions, these sheets and bags cannot be stacked flat vided, like small bags, in the form of a continuous length, with transverse perforated lines to separate the bags, such length being wrapped around a cylindrical core. Although this arrangement permits individual dispensing of the bags, it still has several drawbacks. Because of the large size of the bags, a very strong pull is necessary to separate each bag from the continuous length. The core is long and somewhat costly; so is the carton. A large size carton also is undesirable because it occupies a large volume of storage space. Another drawback lies in the production of the bags in the form of a continuous length because an unused portion of plastic film must be provided between the bags in the continuous length and this film is wasted.
  • It is an object of the present invention to provide a package article comprising a dispensing carton of small size containing a plurality of large, flat, flexible articles which are folded and stacked in such a manner that they are readily dispensable individually from the carton.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a stack of plastic bags and apparatus for folding the stack;
  • FIG. 2 is a similar view illustrating the formation of corrugated folds in the stack of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the corrugated stack of FIG. 2, ready to be placed into any empty carton;
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an open carton into which the corrugated stack of FIG. 3 has been placed.
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the carton showing the manner in which the bags are individually dispensed by the user.
  • a package article which comprises a dispensing carton containing a stack of large size, flat, flexible articles folded into a corrugated pattern, each of the articles being dispensable from the carton individually.
  • the invention also provides a method for folding and packaging into a small size dispensing carton a plurality of large size flat articles made of flexible sheet material.
  • This method comprises forming a stack of said flat articles, corrugating the stack into a plurality of loose, deep folds extending substantially parallel to the transverse axis of the stack, gathering and compressing the corrugated folds, placing the folded stack into an open carton and closing the carton.
  • the top wall of the carton may be provided, in a manner well known to those skilled in the art, with a removable tear strip which upon removal thereof forms a longitudinal opening or slot above. the folds for dispensing the contents of the carton.
  • the initial flat articles are very narrow, they should first be folded individually along their longitudinal axis before being piled up into a stack.
  • the number of these longitudinal folds depends, of course, on the original width of the article.
  • the length of the carton corresponds to the width of the stack, as will later be explained, and the smaller the carton the cheaper it is and the easier to handle. Therefore, the stack should preferably have as narrow a width as practically possible.
  • the stack may be placed onto a corrugated supporting surface and be forced by pressure to follow the contour of the corrugated surface.
  • the stack may be placed onto a supporting surface made of a plurality of spaced-apart parallel fingers and another set of spacedapart parallel fingers disposed in offset relations with respect to the fingers of the supporting surface brought down upon the stack and forced to pass between and below the fingers of the supporting surface, thus corrugating the stack.
  • FIG. 1 a stack 10 of large size bags made, for example, of a plastic film material such as polyethylene. These large size bags have already been folded individually longitudinally several times to a narrow width and then piled up into a stack by mechanical means well known in the art.
  • the stack 10 has been placed onto a horizontal supporting surface comprising a first set of fingers 12 disposed in parallel, spaced-apart relationship.
  • a second set of fingers 14 extends above the stack 10.
  • the fingers 14 are also disposed in parallel, spaced-apart relationship with respect to each other. They are in a plane parallel to the first set but positioned in offset relationship with respect to the fingers 12.
  • FIG. 2 the stack 10 is shown after it has been folded into a corrugated pattern.
  • the fingers 14 have been lowered and passed between and below the fingers 12, forcing the stack 10 down with them and thus shaping said stack into a corrugated pattern of loose, deep folds 16.
  • the compressed corrugated stack illustrated in FIG. 3, is ready to be placed into an empty carton.
  • FIG. 4 shows a conventional open carton 18 into which the corrugated and compressed stack has been placed.
  • the length of the carton corresponds to the width of the stack, and its height corresponds to the depth of the corrugations.
  • the top wall of the carton 18 has a slot 20 through which one of the corrugated folds 16 can be seen.
  • the carton may be loaded with the stack either through an open end or through the open top of said carton.
  • a stack may be made of 5, 1O, 20 or more large bags, for example, depending on the thickness of the bags. Obviously, the number and spacing of the fingers will depend on the length of the bags and on the number of corrugated folds desired. The depth of the folds may also be varied at will be pre-setting the length of the downward path of the fingers 14.
  • the expression large size, flat, flexible articles herein employed refers to articles whose dimensions are at least about /2 inches wide and about 14 inches long, and larger, and a small size, flat article is one whose dimensions are below about 10 /2 inches in width and about 14 inches in length.
  • the small size articles are, for example, sandwich bags and food storage bags. Standard size sandwich bags, about 6% x 8%" are conventionally packaged into cartons 7 A" in length, 2 /2" in width and 2 /2" in depth.
  • the larger size food storage bags are conventionally available in cartons 2%" wide x 2%" deep x 10% long.
  • the invention provides a method for packaging flat articles of a size as large as 36" X 60" and even larger into cartons of approximately the same size or slightly bigger. These cartons are inexpensive, easy to handle and do not take up much shelf space.
  • EXAMPLE 1 Large polyethylene bags having a flat width of 36" and a length of 56 were first longitudinally folded to dimensions of 18" x 56" and again longitudinally folded to dimensions of 9" X 56". Five of these thus folded bags were piled up into a stack having a width of 9" and placed in a corrugating machine operating according to the embodiment illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The resulting corrugated stack had seven corrugated folds and was packed into a commercially available carton having the following dimensions: length: 9 /2", width: 2%", depth: 4". The bags were easily dispensed individually, without affecting the corrugated pattern of the bags remaining in the carton.
  • a package article which comprises a small size dispensing carton, having a wall provided with a slot, said carton containing a stack of large size, flat, flexible, generally rectangular, articles, each of said articles having a fold therein decreasing its apparent width, said stack having a pattern of compressed corrugated folds, the length of the carton corresponding to the width of the stack and the apparent width of the article and the height of the carton corresponding to the depth of the corrugated folds, at least one of said corrugated folds being readily accessible through said slot whereby each of said articles is dispensable from said carton individually.
  • a method for folding and packaging into a small size carton a plurality of large size flat articles made of flexible sheet material which method comprises individually folding each of said flat articles at least once along the longitudinal axis thereof to a narrow .width,

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US4909674A (en) * 1987-05-28 1990-03-20 Kajima Corporation Underground continuous impervious wall and method for installing same
US5328053A (en) * 1993-03-22 1994-07-12 The Procter & Gamble Company Packages for single-use folded towels which provide for unfolding of the towel upon removal from the package
US5560321A (en) * 1995-07-07 1996-10-01 Hess; Howard A. Animal harness for dispensing litter bags
US6269972B1 (en) * 1998-10-20 2001-08-07 Cascade Dispensers Limited Grove House Dispensers for bags
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WO1988004635A1 (fr) * 1986-12-19 1988-06-30 Stiegler Gmbh Maschinenfabrik Sac de thermoplastique avec cordon a tirer et procede de fabrication
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US6269972B1 (en) * 1998-10-20 2001-08-07 Cascade Dispensers Limited Grove House Dispensers for bags
CN108909036A (zh) * 2018-08-30 2018-11-30 江苏万乐自动化装备有限公司 一种用于双层袋套袋机的波浪形防袋底折角装置

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