Tc Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Terry D Gebhardt

Ralph M Roen

Richard C Dokmo

Beverage caddy

A bag for holding hot food products is provided with pairs of arcuate vents such that hot moist air may escape from the bag to keep food held within fresh. The arcuate vent pairs are placed in certain areas of the body of the bag such that structural strength in the bag is not lost yet hot moist air is allowed to escape. In a preferred embodiment, the bag is made of plastic and has handles defined in the front and rear panels of the bag, such that the gussets, or sides, of the bag are not perforated by handles and the bag presents a neat appearance when it is open and full of product.

Plastic bag with arcuate vent pairs

A headerless pack of thermoplastic film bags having weak bag to bag seals to make said pack and a teardrop like shaped supporting opening whereby said pack is supported on a dispenser rod through said opening and a single bag can easily be removed by pulling down on said bag thereby breaking said seals and tearing through said opening.

Headerless bag pack with easy removal opening

A plastic bag having a closure device attached thereto adjacent the opening and adapted to fold over the bag walls and hook to itself to seal the bag while allowing the opening to remain outside of the closure.

One piece snap closure for a plastic bag

A plastic bag has two perforations, an upper and a lower, and a flip top allowing the top of the bag to be torn from a header or saddle loaded with product and closed. The flip top can then be removed using the lower perforation to expose the product.

Double perforation easy tear-off bag

A plastic bag is disclosed of the type to hold flat or awkward shaped objects, which is constructed of a top, a bottom, a first and second end, and two sides. A slit is utilized to allow entry into the bag. The slit may be positioned across the side or across the top.

Slitted plastic bag capable of holding flat, awkward objects

A stack of a plurality of headerless plastic bags are assembled together for individual dispensing. Each bag comprises a front wall having a first body portion and a first lip and a rear wall attached to the front wall. The rear wall includes a second body portion which overlies the first body portion of the front wall and a rear lip which extends beyond the front lip of the front wall. The bags are collated into a stack and are removably joined to one another by forming a cold weld in and between the rear lips of the rear wall of adjacent bags. The cold welds are formed by pressing the rear lips of the bags together under pressure, but without the application of heat. The cold welds join the plurality of bags in the stack together until the cold welds which join a particular bag to the stack are severed. Each bag is dispensed in its entirety without any residual waste.

Stack of cold welded headerless bags

An interfolded boxed bag arrangement and method and apparatus for making the same from plastic tube or sheeting stock. Plastic tubular or sheeting stock is unwound off two rolls under tension. The stock proceeds to various stations where it is cut into bag lanes by rotary knife blades. A bag lane is cut between each pair of rotary knife blades with a hot knife to form a sealed bottom for the bags. The bag lanes are then cut to a specified length with a hot knife which seals each side of the bag. Bags produced by each roll of stock material are staggered adjacent to one another and are interfolded with each other by a set of rotary gripper fingers and tucker fingers to form an interfolded stack of bags. The stacks are placed into a dispensing box for individual dispensing.

Method and apparatus for making interfolded boxed bags

The method of making from tube stock the bag pad arrangement of parent application Ser. No. 068,062 that is concerned with bagging a pair of liquid containers, such as containers for carry out for milk shakes, carbonated beverages, and other types of drinks, that are commonly available at fast food outlets, at the point of sale of such products, for easy and effective carry away by the customer, in which the bags of the bag pad are all the same and are incorporated in the pad in congruent relation. The bag back panel flange of the individual bags includes a score line and the bags of the pad are united in pad form by heat welding the bags together at the top edging of the back panel flange, with a pad mounting hole or holes being formed in the pad bag back panel flanges for mounting of the bag pad to dispense the bags therefrom one at a time starting with the bag exposed at the front of the pad, as needed at the fast food facility to bag the usual liquid beverage containers at the point of sale the same for ready carrying away by the customer.

Method of making bottom gusset bag pad arrangement for liquid containers

A bag pad arrangement for bagging food containers, such as containers for carry out cooked chicken or hamburgers, at fast food outlets, at the point of sale of such products, for easy and effective carry away by the customer, in which the pad bags are all the same and are incorporated in the pad in congruent relation, with each bag having a bottom fold that is gusseted for flat bottom shaping when open, front and back panels extending between side end seals that extend normally of the bag bottom, and aligned handle forming openings formed in the bag front and back panels adjacent the upper end of each bag; as incorporated in the bag pad, the back panel of each bag includes a projecting flange that extends beyond the top edging of the bag front panel which is free of the back panel to form the mouth of each bag. The bag back panel flange includes a score line and the bags of the pad are united in pad form by heat welding the bags together at the top edging of the back panel flange, with a pad mounting hole or holes being formed in the pad bag back panel flanges for mounting of the bag pad to dispense the bags therefrom one at a time starting with the bag exposed at the front of the pad, as needed at the fast food facility to bag the usual cooked food containers at the point of sale the same for ready carrying away by the customer. The method disclosed effects formation from web stock of such bags in units consisting of a pair of such pads, the bags of which are top connected and stacked for forming the pads that are separated as part of the method.

Bottom gusset bag pad arrangement for food containers and method of

A bag pad arrangement, and method of making same from tube stock, for bagging a pair of liquid containers, such as containers for carry out for milk shakes, carbonated beverages, and other types of drinks, that are commonly available at fast food outlets, at the point of sale of such products, for easy and effective carry away by the customer, in which the bags of the bag pad are all the same and are incorporated in the pad in congruent relation, with each bag having a bottom fold that is gusseted for flat bottom shaping when open, front and back panels extending between side end seals that extend normally of the bag bottom that are spot welded together at the center of the bag but spaced from the bottom gusset thereof, and that define rectilinear side edgings forming the upper corners of the respective bags that extend to the bag end seals adjacent to but spaced from the bottom gusset thereof, and aligned handle forming openings formed in the bag front and back panels adjacent the upper end of each bag; as incorporated in the bag pad, the back panel of each bag includes a projecting flange that extends beyond the top edging of the bag front panel which is free of the back panel to form the mouth of each bag. The bag back panel flange includes a score line and the bags of the pad are united in pad form by heat welding the bags together at the top edging of the back panel flange, with a pad mounting hole or holes being formed in the pad bag back panel flanges for mounting of the bag pad to dispense the bags therefrom one at a time starting with the bag exposed at the front of the pad, as needed at the fast food facility to bag the usual liquid beverage containers at the point of sale the same for ready carrying away by the customer.

Bottom gusset bag pad arrangement for liquid containers

A flat bottom plastic bag of two sided panel construction with the bottom of the bag formed by a gussett extending between the sealed ends of the bag, at which point the bag side panels are joined together, with the bag bottom gusset having a central fold line that is, in the flattened relation of the bag, disposed between the lower portions of the bag side panels, and that in such relation forms a first pair of adjacent bag plies that includes one of said bag side panel lower portions, and a second pair of bag plies that includes the lower portion of the other bag side panel, with said respective sets of bag plies being respectively joined together but free of adherence to each other by diagonally extending heat seals on either side of the bag that extend diagonally from the bag respective ends in converging relation to adjacent the respective bottom edgers of the bag that are defined by the respective bag plies. The bag has its ends formed by heat sealing the two bag side panels together at the bag ends along lines extending normally of the bag bottom, with the bag side panels also being severed across the top of same to both define the bag open end and a curved handle type open top of the bag. Also disclosed is a method of making a plurality of such bags from flattened plastic film tube stock, with no waste of the film material of the stock, and with the bags to be formed extending transversely of the tube stock.

Growing community of inventors

Longview, TX, United States of America

Terry D Gebhardt