Sonoco Products Company

Other

Gregory A Hoover

E Riley Rowe

David Rowe

Roger Hoover

H Gordon Dancy

James C Miller

A method for producing inflated dunnage on the site of use, comprising providing, in web form, a plurality of preformed plastic bags, each of the bags comprising two plastic sheets in facing relationship and sealed along three edges with one edge remaining open. Air is blown toward each of the open edges in sequence, causing each bag to inflate, and the open edge of each inflated bag is sealed, the bag being empty except for the air. A plurality of sealed inflated bags is separated from the web and placed in a carton to serve as dunnage. The bags have a slip resistant outer surface which causes the bags to interlock in the carton and better protect objects therein from shock.

Inflated dunnage and method for its production

A method for producing inflated dunnage on the site of use, comprising providing, in rolled form, a plurality of preformed plastic bags, each of the bags comprising two plastic sheets in facing relationship and sealed along three edges with one edge remaining open. Air is blown toward each of the open edges in sequence, causing each bag to inflate, and the fourth edge of each inflated bag is sealed, the bag being empty except for the air. At least one sealed inflated bag is separated from the roll and placed in a carton to serve as dunnage. In an alternate embodiment, the stock material is provided in a continuous tubular form, and an air inflation needle is used to puncture a surface of the tube for inflation purposes.

Method for producing inflated dunnage

A plastic film bag with overlying front and rear bag walls, the upper edges of which define a bag mouth. Pleats defined in each bag wall extend vertically downward from the mouth-forming edges. The pleats, upon expansion by direct finger engagement therewith or the application of outwardly directed opposite forces on the opposed ends of the mouth portion of the bag, cause a lateral separation of the edges for initiating opening of the bag mouth. The bag may be vertically partitioned into lateral compartments with at least one wall of each compartment including a mouth-opening pleat therein.

Easy open bag

A method of forming a severable compartmented T-shirt bag comprising heat welding overlying lengths of a flattened tubular web of thermoplastic material centrally therealong to define a compartment to each side of the heat welding and a side edge seam for each compartment, slitting the web material between the compartments and formed seams, and reengaging the seams and forming a tack joinder therebetween to define a line of severance. The method also including the steps of transversely seaming the lengths of web material into individual bag units and forming a central cutout area in each bag unit to define a bag mouth with a handle to each side of the severance line.

Method of forming a compartmented bag

A flexible bag including front and rear walls vertically joined along a center line to form a pair of adjacent separated upwardly opening compartments. The front and rear bag walls have integral handles projecting upwardly therefrom, one handle in generally overlying relation to each compartment. The compartments, each with its associated handle, are selectively severable from each other along the vertical joinder line.

Bottle bag

A thermoplastic bag with side or bottom gussets each defined by a pair of overlying panels having selected ends thereof sealed together and between the sealed edges of the front and rear walls of the bag. Each gusset includes a transverse tear line inward of the sealed lower ends of the panels of the gusset, and a transverse glue line bonding the two panels of the gusset to each other inward of the tear line and across the width of the gusset.

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Dunedin, FL, United States of America

Gregory A Hoover