Mailing bag with address mounting pocket and tamper proof tie securing means attachable to card and slide zipper preventing surreptitious access thereinto

• US 4,494,592 A
• Filed: 05/03/1983
• Issued: 01/22/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Strayer COIN Bag Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Strayer COIN Bag Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Bonner, Cletus D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moy, Joseph Man-Fu
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fidei, David
• Application Number:
  US06/476,356
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 150/13, 150/15, 150/23, 383/9, 383/97, 383/40, 383/5, D 3/59, D 3/71, 40/10 R, 40/10 D, 40/159, 40/359
• US Class Current: 383/5
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 13/42 Devices for identifying luggage; Means for attaching same
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 3/00 Flexible luggage; Handbags collapsible or extensible luggage, bags or the like A45C7/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 29/00 Sacks or like containers made of fabrics; Flexible containers of open-work, e.g. net-like construction

Abstract

A panelled mailing bag with zippered opening and a spaced two-part address card mounting pocket on a panel thereof with a card so received therein that the mid portion is exposed to receive postage and enable ready cancellation thereof. The card is apertured for securement by seal means to the zipper slide and eyeletted patches on the bag panels whereby the slide is maintained in closed locked position and unauthorized access to the bag is prevented without leaving overt evidence.

Claims

1. A bag for carrying mail or the like comprising two overlying panels of similar size and shape secured along their two peripheral sides and bottom edges to form a main pocket therebetween, said top edges being unsecured to provide a mouth, a slide fastener connected to said panels along said top edges for opening and closing said main pocket mouth, a transparent card pocket, an address card removably inserted within said pocket and being apertured at its upper end, patch means alinedly secured along their side and bottom edges to each of said panels with their upper edges being unsecured and apertured, said patch means generally underlying said card pocket and projecting thereabove and terminating below said slide fastener when in mouth closing position. Finger grip means hinged to said slide fastener and formed with an aperture in one end, and plastic tie seal means including a flexible rod tipped at one end and formed with a hollow truncated cone at its other end and having a plurality of spaced bead means therebetween, whereby when said seal means is inserted through said card, patch and finger grip apertures and said tipped end is threaded through said cone the seal means may be tightened relative to and for retaining said slide fastener in closed locked position and preventing the disengagement of said address card and whereby unauthorized entry into said bag necessitates severing said tie seal means thereby leaving overt evidence thereof.

2. A bag according to claim 1, wherein said card pocket includes spaced upper and lower sections covered with transparent material and an exposed mid portion therebetween, and said patch means are generally rectangular.

3. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the hollow truncated cone on said plastic tie seal rod is slotted and said spaced bead means are integrally formed on said rod and bindingly engage with said cone to lock said finger grip means in closed position relative to said slide fastener.

4. A bag according to claim 2, wherein an exposed open blank mid portion is interposed between said upper and lower card pocket sections whereby addresses on said card may be covered and the exposed blank mid portion is accessible for receiving and cancelling postage.