WO1992009493A1 - Bag for carrying box-shaped objects - Google Patents
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- WO1992009493A1 WO1992009493A1 PCT/SE1990/000788 SE9000788W WO9209493A1 WO 1992009493 A1 WO1992009493 A1 WO 1992009493A1 SE 9000788 W SE9000788 W SE 9000788W WO 9209493 A1 WO9209493 A1 WO 9209493A1
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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
- B65D31/00—Bags or like containers made of paper and having structural provision for thickness of contents
- B65D31/16—Bags or like containers made of paper and having structural provision for thickness of contents of special shape
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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
- B65D2585/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials
- B65D2585/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
- B65D2585/36—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for biscuits or other bakery products
- B65D2585/363—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for biscuits or other bakery products specific products
- B65D2585/366—Pizza
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- the present inventon relates to a bag of flexible material, comprising: - a top portion provided with handle means and including opposite panels being connected to each other at the side edges thereof and forming an opening of the bag defined by the top edges of the two panels; and two wing pouches extending outwardly in opposite directions from the lower end of said top portion and being foldable from a flattened rest position of the bag into an expandabl operative position of the bag, wherein the two wing portion form a common bottom wall portion and outer side walls defining an interior storage space communicating with said opening of the bag.
- Such a bag is previously known from US-A-3 829 007 (Ellison) .
- the carrier bag disclosed in that document is specifically designed to make it sufficiently stiff so that it will be free- standing when empty. In this way, the bag is particularly usefu for packaging small articles into the bag.
- US-A-4 904 093 discloses a plastic storage and cooking bag having two opposite wing pouches with a common, relatively wide gussetted bottom.
- the interior storage space is completely filled with foodstuff for storage in a freezer and subsequent heating in a microwave oven, where the wing pouches provide support so as to make the top portion of the bag stand upright and prevent spillage of the foodstuff when being heated.
- the upright top portion is provided with a closure device, but there are no handle means.
- the bag has a square configuration .
- the present invention is concerned with the proble of packaging at least one relatively large and flat box-shaped object in the bag and to retain the object(s) in a horizontal position while being carried. More specifically, an object of the invention is to enable packaging of boxes containing delicate foodstuff such as pizzas, pies or other bakery products in the bag without any risk of tipping such boxes during transport, especially while carrying the bag in one hand so a to facilitate going in and out of doors and/or handling other objects, such as an umbrella, keys or other packages, in the opposite hand. Moreover, the bag should be so designed that the box-shaped object(s) can be easily inserted into and taken out of the bag, while at the same time ensuring that the object is kept in a stable horizontal position when being carried.
- the length of the bottom wall portion exceeds the length of the object by 30% to 100%, whereas the width of the bottom wall portion exceeds the width of the object by 0% to 20%.
- the length of the bag has to be substantially greater than the box itself, whereas the width of the bottom wall portion of the bag should be approximately the same as or slightly exceeding the square side of the box.
- a box (or a few boxes stacked on top of each other) can be easily placed in the bag and still be securely held in a horizontal position while being carried. It is particularly important that the length of the bag, including the top portion with its opening as well as the wing pouches, is substantially greater than the length, i.e. the largest or longitudinal dimension, of the object so as to enable keeping the collapsed or disorderly configurated end portions of the bag out of the way when placing the object onto the bottom wall portion and taking it out therefrom. Also, since the length of the bag is substantially greater than the length of the box, the end seams (or other end connections between the panels constituting the bag) will not be subjected to any great stress that will cause breakage.
- the tensile forces will be distributed along the mid portion of the bag, in the region of the box or boxes. Moreover, the outer sid walls of the wing pouches will fit snugly against the opposite side walls of the box or boxes and thereby retain it in the desired position.
- the width measure of the bottom wall portion is not as critical as the length thereof and can even be slightly smaller than the width of the box. In case the width i substantially larger than the width of the box, the latter will drop down into the central part of the bottom wall portion or b displaced sideways therein. Moreover it will increase the effective height of the bag in use.
- the bag i made from a unitary, elongated, substantially rectangular sheet of flexible material, especially a thermoplastic material, folded so as to form the top portion and the two wing pouches o the bag, the relatively wide bottom wall portion being constituted by a mid portion of the sheet between two mutually parallel fold lines, a third fold line being located centrally therebetween adjacent to the lower end of the top portion.
- the sheet material is unitary in the regions where tensile forces appear, in particular at the opposite side walls of the box-shaped object .
- the opposite panel portions constituting the top portio and the outer side walls of the wing pouches will be stretched out so as to form planar, sloping side wall portions of the bag.
- these planar, sloping side wall portions can be used for advertisement of the foodstuff delivered in the box(es placed in the bag.
- the bag should be so designed that it will not swing back and forth while being carried.
- the vertical distance between the handle means and the bottom wall portions, as measured in use with the box of boxes placed horizontally onto the bottom wall portion should lie within the range 25% to 150%, most pre ⁇ ferably 50%-100%, of the width of the bottom wall portion.
- this vertical distance or height should be in the upper part of this range, whereas it should be in the lower part of the range for elongated boxes.
- the overall height of the bag should in any case be less than 50 cm to ensure ease of carrying the bag in one hand with a stretched arm.
- Fig. 1 shows, in a perspective view, a flexible bag according to the invention in a flattened rest position
- Fig. 2 shows the (empty) bag in a position ready for use
- Fig. 3 shows the (still empty) bag with its upper opening widened to permit the insertion of a box
- Fig. 4 shows the bag being carried with the box placed therein
- Fig. 5 shows, in a top view, a rectangular sheet of thermoplastic material to be folded along fold lines and sealed along the longitudinal edges to form the bag shown in figs. 1 to 4.
- the bag illustrated in figs. 1-4 is made from a sheet of thermoplastic film material as shown in fig. 5.
- the sheet is substantially rectangular with opposite shorter edges 1 and 2 and opposite longer edges 3 and 4.
- a number of mutually paralle fold lines 5 to 9 are provided transversally, i.e. in parallel to the short edges 1, 2, so as to form different panel portions A-F of the bag.
- the panel portions A and F adjacent to the respective short edges 1, 2 constitute, upon folding the sheet along the fold lines 5 to 9 and connecting the respective portions of each longer edge 3, 4 to each other, e.g. by heat sealing, the front and back panels forming a top portion 10 of the flexible bag, a seen best in fig. 2.
- the upper edges 1 , 2 of the top portion panels A and F are left free and define a flexible, normally longitudinal opening of the bag. As seen from the drawing figures, these upper edges are curved, so that the central part of the top portion 10 protrudes upwardly from the corners 10a, 10b at the respective end of the bag.
- rectangular holes 11, 12 are cut out from the sheet material, e.g. by punching, to form a handle, by means of which the bag can be carried in one hand (compare fig. 4).
- the sheet panel portions B and C are folded one on top of the other and heat sealed along the respective edges to form a wing pouch 13 of the bag (fig. 2). Since the panel portions are sealed only along the longer edges 3, 4 of the flexible sheet material, the interior, expandable space of the wing pouc 13 communicates with the inside of the top portion 10 and the upper opening of the finished bag.
- the sheet panel portions D and E are folded and sealed in a corresponding manner to form an opposite wing pouch 14, the interior space of which likewise communicates with the inside of the top portion 10 and the opening of the bag.
- the interior spaces of the two wing pouches 13, 14 also communicate with each other so as to form a common storage spac at the bottom of the bag.
- the panel portions A to F all have substantially the same rectangular dimensions (except for the curved, cut-out corner portions of panels A and F) .
- the vertical dimension or height H (compare fig. 4) of the top portion 10 is approximately half of the width W of the spread out wing pouches 13, 14, and each wing pouch 13, 14 extends sideways and outwardly the same distance (approximately H) .
- the bag is dimensioned to accommodate at least one box 15 (fig. 3), e.g. containing delicate foodstuff, such as a pizza, a pie, a cake or a ready- made dish, which has to be retained in a substantially horizontal position during transport.
- the box-shaped, relatively flat object 15 has a length 1 and a width w, which may differ from each other.
- the measures 1 and w are the same, i.e. the box 15 is square, as is generally the case for a pizza or cake box.
- 1 and w are about 20-50 cm, but smaller and greater values may occur.
- the length L of the bag (see fig. 4) has to be substantially greater than the length 1 of the box-shaped object 15, i.e. L has to exceed 1 by at least 30% to enable easy insertion of the box 15 into the bag while holding the upper edges 1, 2 of the top portion 10 apart to form a relatively wide opening.
- the end portions 16, 17 of the bag will approach each other somewhat and partially collapse in a disorderly manner. So, it is absolutely necessary that these end portions 16, 17 are positioned at some distance from the end walls 15a, 15b of the. box 15.
- the length L of the bag (correspondin to the length of the shorter edges 1 , 2 of the rectangular shee 5 shown in fig. 5) is even greater than 30% in excess of the length 1 of the box 15. For practical reasons, however, it should not be greater than twice the length 1.
- the width W of the bottom wall portion 18 of the bag i.e. the C total width of the panel portions C and D in the mid part M of the sheet (fig. 5) , is not as critical as the length L but should be approximately the same as or somewhat greater than th width w of the box 15. Thus, it should be in the order of 0% to 20% in excess of the width w. 5
- the unitary sheet material will snugly fit around the opposite side walls 15c and 15d upon insertion o the box 15 onto the bottom wall portion 18 and lifting the bag in the handle means 11, 12 in one hand. Then, the fold lines 6 and 8 are positioned near the lower edges of the side walls 15c 15d of the box 15, and the sheet material is stretched into obliquely sloping planar surface areas extending up to the handle means 11, 12 (only one such area 19 is visible in fig. 4) .
- the seams connecting the various sheet pane portions A to F at the end portions 16 and 17 of the bag are no subjected to any tensile forces, and the risk of breakage of th bag is therefore minimized provided that the thickness of the thermoplastic sheet material (or some other sheet material) is chosen so as to withstand the maximal tension occuring adjacent to the corners of the box 15 and in the region of the handle means 11, 12.
- the box 15 is thus effectively wrapped around by the unitary sheet material, and the snug fit at the opposite walls 15c, 15d of the box will ensure that the box 15 does not slide on the bottom wall portion 18 while being carried.
- the height H of the top portion 10 should preferably be in the range 25% to 150%, most preferably 50%-100%, of " the width W of the bottom wall portion 18. The lower the height H, the less is the risk of getting the bag and the box or boxes contained therein to swing back and forth (or sideways) while being carried in the handle means 11 , 12.
- the sloping, planar surface areas 19, which are kept streched in use provide an excellent opportunity for advertisement, e.g. of the goods contained in the box.
- the bag may alternatively comprise a number of mutually connected panel portions.
- the exact configuration of the end portions 16, 17 of the bag may be modified, e.g. by letting the end seams extend only along a part of the top portion 10 (from the lower end thereof), and suitable reinforce ⁇ ments may be provided as desired or necessary for a particular purpose, e.g. in the end portions 16, 17 and/or in the regions snugly fitting against the side walls 15c, 15d of the box or boxes .
- the outer corner portions of the two wing pouches 13, 14 may be cut away and sealed if desired, e.g. to provide a mor esthetic appearance of the bag.
- the flexible sheet (or portions thereof) may be made of some other material, e.g. a material reinforced by fibres, cords or a net structure, and/or several layers of like or different materials.
- a material reinforced by fibres, cords or a net structure e.g. a material reinforced by fibres, cords or a net structure, and/or several layers of like or different materials.
- a separate handle e.g. of plastics, may be clamped onto the central part of the top portion 10 (or fastened thereto in some other suitable manner) .
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EP91902306A EP0558476A1 (en) | 1990-11-28 | 1990-11-28 | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
CA002099604A CA2099604A1 (en) | 1990-11-28 | 1990-11-28 | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
PCT/SE1990/000788 WO1992009493A1 (en) | 1990-11-28 | 1990-11-28 | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
NO93931936A NO931936L (en) | 1990-11-28 | 1993-05-27 | Pouch for carrying box-shaped objects |
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CA002099604A CA2099604A1 (en) | 1990-11-28 | 1990-11-28 | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
PCT/SE1990/000788 WO1992009493A1 (en) | 1990-11-28 | 1990-11-28 | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
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WO1994000357A1 (en) * | 1992-06-23 | 1994-01-06 | Sean St Anthony Mooney | Load carrying device |
FR2718717A1 (en) * | 1994-04-15 | 1995-10-20 | Capy Gilbert | Sealed packaging for bananas |
US5741077A (en) * | 1994-06-17 | 1998-04-21 | Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd. | Carry out bag, method of producing the same and method of using the same |
US5951166A (en) * | 1998-01-26 | 1999-09-14 | Matsumoto; Masayoshi | Carrier-bag for plate-shaped articles and process for producing the same |
WO2002080724A1 (en) * | 2001-04-05 | 2002-10-17 | Tezzi Woldekidan | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
DE102008046353A1 (en) * | 2008-09-09 | 2010-03-11 | Olaf Huhnke | Carrying device for carrying load, particularly cake or pizza by person, has base of maximum base area corresponding to load to be carried, where base is connected with two cover surfaces |
ITMC20080173A1 (en) * | 2008-09-29 | 2010-03-30 | Tiziana Fedele | PROCEDURE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SEMI-ENVELOPE ENVELOPE WITH PARALLELEPIPED CONFORMATION AND ENVELOPE OBTAINED WITH SUCH PROCEDURE. |
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WO1994000357A1 (en) * | 1992-06-23 | 1994-01-06 | Sean St Anthony Mooney | Load carrying device |
US5524949A (en) * | 1992-06-23 | 1996-06-11 | Mooney; Sean S. A. | Load carrying device |
FR2718717A1 (en) * | 1994-04-15 | 1995-10-20 | Capy Gilbert | Sealed packaging for bananas |
US5741077A (en) * | 1994-06-17 | 1998-04-21 | Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd. | Carry out bag, method of producing the same and method of using the same |
US5951166A (en) * | 1998-01-26 | 1999-09-14 | Matsumoto; Masayoshi | Carrier-bag for plate-shaped articles and process for producing the same |
WO2002080724A1 (en) * | 2001-04-05 | 2002-10-17 | Tezzi Woldekidan | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
US7055876B2 (en) | 2001-04-05 | 2006-06-06 | Tezzi Woldekidan | Bag for carrying box-shaped objects |
DE102008046353A1 (en) * | 2008-09-09 | 2010-03-11 | Olaf Huhnke | Carrying device for carrying load, particularly cake or pizza by person, has base of maximum base area corresponding to load to be carried, where base is connected with two cover surfaces |
ITMC20080173A1 (en) * | 2008-09-29 | 2010-03-30 | Tiziana Fedele | PROCEDURE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SEMI-ENVELOPE ENVELOPE WITH PARALLELEPIPED CONFORMATION AND ENVELOPE OBTAINED WITH SUCH PROCEDURE. |
ITVI20130048A1 (en) * | 2013-02-28 | 2014-08-29 | Marco Novello | PERFECTED METHOD FOR THE REALIZATION OF A CONTAINER AND CONTAINER REALIZED BY SUCH A PERFECTED METHOD |
ITVI20130047A1 (en) * | 2013-02-28 | 2014-08-29 | Marco Novello | METHOD FOR THE REALIZATION OF A CONTAINER AND CONTAINER REALIZED BY SUCH METHOD |
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