Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
  • B65D75/52—Details
  • B65D75/58—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
  • B65D75/5861—Spouts
  • B65D75/5866—Integral spouts

Definitions

• the present invention relates to bags for foodstuffs .
• Bags for granule-type foodstuffs which have a base from which two principal walls and two lateral flanks extend are already known, these walls and flanks being made from a material of flexible-sheet type, the two walls being, at their end opposite the base, assembled together along a line which is, for example, a weld or adhesive-bonding line, the two flanks being, at their end opposite the base, shaped as a gusset.
• Bags of this type known to date generally have an opening line extending along one of the two principal walls, close to the assembling line formed, for example, by the weld or adhesive-bonding line opposite the base.
• closure means of the removable anchoring type for example, a zip including a male anchoring line and a complementary female anchoring line - which enable the user to re-close the bag after a first use.
• Such bags are difficult to handle for users wishing to pour foodstuffs, for example, into a petfood dish.
• a bag for foodstuffs including a base, and also two principal walls and two lateral flanks extending from said base, these walls and flanks being made from a material of flexible-sheet type, the two walls being, at their end opposite the base, assembled together along an assembling line, the two flanks, at their end opposite the base, being shaped as a gusset, said bag also including an opening line, characterized in that said opening line extends, in the region shaped as a gusset, of one lateral flank, in the vicinity of one end of said region opposite said base, said region forming a gusset being capable of adopting two positions when the opening line is open, one which corresponds to its position when the bag is closed, the other being one in which the gusset shape is turned out and defines a pouring spout capable of guiding the foodstuffs as far as the opening.
• the opening line is arranged below the assembling line of the two principal walls, in the immediate vicinity of said line;
• the gusset also has closure means of the removable anchoring type
• the bag which is shown in the figures, is in the form of a bag made from flexible sheet, which has a base 1, and also two principal walls 2 and two lateral flanks 3, which extend from said base.
• the principal walls 2 are closed together, at their end opposite said base, along an assembling line 4.
• the two principal walls 2 may be assembled by means of welding, adhesive bonding or any other technique that may be suitable.
• flanks 3 are each folded about a fold line 7, which gives them the form of a gusset 8 over at least part of the height of the bag.
• One of the two flanks 3 has, in the region of its part in the form of a gusset 8, an opening line 9 which extends over substantially the entire width of said flank, in a horizontal direction.
• This line 9 is, for example, defined by broken lines for tearing or by a weakening thinning produced on the sheet of the bag at said flank 3.
• This opening line 9 extends in a region shaped as a gusset over the part 8 in the form of a gusset opposite the base 1.
• closure means of the removable anchoring type (zip strip, for example) (not shown in order not to complicate the figures) , are also advantageously provided on the flank 3 on which the opening line 9 is provided.
• the bag according to the invention may be reclosed in a particularly simple and reliable manner .
• the removable anchoring closure means extend over only a limited length (corresponding at most to the width of the gusset 8), which facilitates their closure.
• an opening such as that described above with an opening arranged as known, i.e. placed on a principal wall of the bag.
• the user may choose one or other of the two openings.
• a particularly simple and advantageous arrangement involves folding down the top band located at the upper end of the bag, above the assembling line 4, and securing the two lateral end parts of said top band over the principal-wall part of the bag opposite which the top band is folded down.
• a grasping handle is thus created, formed by the central part of the top band which is folded down but not secured to the wall of the bag, doing so in a particularly simple and economical manner.
• the "securing" referred to above may be achieved in any manner known per se, depending on the material used for the sheets of the bag (adhesive bonding, welding, etc . ) .
• the other parts of the bag and, in particular, the base of the bag may have any configuration known per se (flat base, but also a base having any other shape) .
• This line 10 must be produced over only part of the height of the bag so as to join the two principal walls 2 in their upper part. This creates, close to the gusset (and thus to the pouring spout) , a conduit which makes it possible better to guide the flow of granules or other products contained in the bag.
• such a bag is particularly (but not in a limiting manner) suited to the dispensing of animal foodstuffs of the granule type.

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• General Preparation And Processing Of Foods (AREA)
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• Dairy Products (AREA)

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