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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2007
Eric Desmedt, Crawfordsville, IN (US);
Eric DeSmedt, Crawfordsville, IN (US);
Hudson-Sharp Machine Co., Green Bay, WI (US);
Abstract
A method of forming a bag with at least one gusset on one side including the steps of (a) forming a bag blank having a front panel and a back panel connectable along opposite sides, (b) forming a gusset along one side of one of the front and back panels, the gusset comprising first and second gusset panels inwardly V-folded, which gusset panels have a removable gusset portion at a selected position on the one side, (c) adhesively adhering one side of a patch to one of the gusset panels to a location adjacent the removable gusset portion, the patch having a second adhesive on portions extending beyond the one gusset panel location to the removable gusset portion and beyond the V-fold, and (d) removing the removable gusset portion from the gusset.