Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Fabrice Digonnet

Brian W Walther

Marc S Black

Chad V Schuette

Jeffrey E Bonekamp

Liangkai Ma

Simon Tage Jespersen

Muhammad Ali Siddiqui

Haley A Lowry

Jazmine Gosey

Simon Jespersen

The present disclosure provides a flexible container (). In an embodiment, the flexible container includes a front panel (), a rear panel (), a first gusseted side panel (), and a second gusseted side panel (). The gusseted side panels adjoin the front panel and the rear panel along peripheral seals () to form a chamber. The panels form (i) a top portion, (ii) a body portion, and (iii) a bottom portion. The top portion comprises a neck () and a fitment () in the neck. The front panel comprises a front handle () extending therefrom and the rear panel comprises a rear handle () extending therefrom. The front handle and the rear handle are in opposing relation to each other, the front handle and the rear handle extending over the first gusseted side panel.

Flexible container with handles

The present disclosure provides a flexible container. In an embodiment, the flexible container includes (A) a front panel, a rear panel, a first gusseted side panel, and a second gusseted side panel. The gusseted side panels adjoin the front panel and the rear panel along peripheral seals to form a chamber. Each peripheral seal has (i) a body seal inner edge (BSIE) with opposing ends, (ii) a top tapered seal inner edge (t-TSIE) extending from a top end of each BSIE, (iii) a neck seal inner edge (NSIE) extending from a top end of each t-TSIE, (iv) a neck arc extending between each NSIE and t-TSIE, and (v) a plane (N) extending through each neck arc. Each NSIE forms a neck angle with the plane (N), and the neck angle is from 45&#xb0; to less than 90&#xb0;.

Flexible container

A bag-in-box assembly includes a box and a flexible container filled with a flowable material. The flexible container includes a front panel, a rear panel, and gusseted side panels adjoining the front panel and the rear panel along peripheral seals. Each peripheral seal having an arcuate body seal inner edge (ABSIE) and a tapered seal inner edge extending from each end of a body seal. The ABSIE has a radius of curvature from 1.0 mm to 300.0 mm. The bag-in-box assembly includes a top perimeter, a center perimeter, and a bottom perimeter as well as an aggregate contact length (ACL) at each perimeter. A top ACL is from 50% to 90% of the top perimeter, a center ACL is from 5% to 50% of the center perimeter, and a bottom ACL is from 50% to 90% of the bottom perimeter.

Bag-in-box assembly

The present disclosure provides a flexible container (). In an embodiment, the flexible container includes: a front panel (), a rear panel (), a first gusseted side panel (), and a second gusseted side panel (). The gusseted side panels adjoin the front panel and the rear panel along peripheral seals () to form (i) a top portion, (ii) a body portion, and (iii) a bottom portion. The top portion comprises a neck () and a fitment () in the neck. The top portion comprises a top handle () extending above the fitment, the top handle having a reciprocal attachment member (). The bottom portion comprises a bottom handle () and a tether () extending from the bottom handle. A distal end of the tether has an attachment member (), the attachment member adapted to secure to the reciprocal attachment member.

Flexible container with tether

The present disclosure provides a flexible container. In an embodiment, the flexible container include (A) a front panel, a rear panel, a first gusseted side panel, and a second gusseted side panel. The gusseted side panels adjoin the front panel and the rear panel along peripheral seals to from a chamber. (B) Each peripheral seal has (i) an arcuate body seal inner edge (ABSIE) with opposing ends, (ii) a tapered seal inner edge (TSIE) extending from each end of the body seal. (C) The flexible container includes at least one ABSIE having a radius of curvature, Rc, from 1.0 mm to 300.0 mm.

The present disclosure provides a flexible container. In an embodiment, the flexible container includes (A) a front panel, a rear panel, a first gusseted side panel, and a second gusseted side panel. The gusseted side panels adjoin the front panel and the rear panel along peripheral seals to form a chamber. (B) Each peripheral seal has (i) a body seal inner edge (BSIE) with a bottom end and an opposing top end, (ii) a bottom tapered seal inner edge (b-TSIE) extending from the BSIE bottom end, and (iii) a top tapered seal inner edge (t-TSIE) extending from the BSIE top end. (C) The t-TSIE has a length that is at least 1.1 times greater than the length of the BSIE (in mm).

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Fabrice Digonnet