Plastic bag dispenser

• US 4,512,476 A
• Filed: 12/29/1983
• Issued: 04/23/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tenneco Plastics Company
• Original Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation (Exxon Mobil Corporation)
• Inventors: Herrington, F. John Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Application Number:
  US06/566,725
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 206/554, 206/494, 221/63
• US Class Current: 206/554
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2010/428 Details of the folds or interfolds of the sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/5435 and defining after rupture a lid hinged to the side edge of the container body
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0847 through an aperture at the junction of two walls

Abstract

Small bags, such as sandwich bags and food storage bags, are folded in thirds along parallel fold lines and individually inserted into a box-like dispenser. A rupturable line extends along a top and adjacent side edge of the dispenser which, when ruptured, provides an opening in the dispenser at the corner of the top and adjacent side edge to facilitate removal of the folded bags.

Claims

1. A plastic bag dispenser comprising a rectangular shaped box-like housing having four sides and a top and bottom and containing a plurality of stacked and folded plastic bags, each of said bags being individually folded within said housing and not interlocked with another bag, said dispenser including a rupturable line extending along said top and an adjacent side edge which, when ruptured, provides an opening in said housing at a corner and extending along said top and adjacent side edge, exposing said bags for removal from said dispenser, said bags being folded into thirds and a fold line of said bags being exposed by said opening.

2. A plastic bag dispenser as in claim 1, wherein said bags extend within said housing beyond the extent of said opening so that said housing retains said bags therein when said line is ruptured to create said opening.

3. A plastic bag dispenser as in claim 1, wherein said bags are one of sandwich bags and food storage bags.