Dispensing of bags initially joined head-to-head

• US 4,793,487 A
• Filed: 10/03/1986
• Issued: 12/27/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Minigrip Incorporated (Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Minigrip Incorporated (Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
• Inventors: Bentsen, Per, Ausnit, Steven, Nocek, Robert S.
• Primary Examiner(s): MOY, JOSEPH MAN
• Application Number:
  US06/914,930
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 206/813, 206/602, 206/449, 206/806, 206/451, 206/606, 206/607, 206/609, 206/616
• US Class Current: 206/451
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 33/001 Blocks, stacks or like assemblies of bags
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/5844 the portion of the wall being a narrow strip, e.g. between lines of weakness B65D75/5838 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/5888 Tear-lines for removing successive sections of a package for separating package into individual packages B65D75/527
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/68 extending through wrapper closure or between wrapper layers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/813 Adhesive

Abstract

A container dispenser assembly containing stacks of flat bags with their tops adjacent and releasably interconnected and held in a rectangular cardboard container having a central tear strip extending over three walls with the tear strip removable and the separated sections of the container foldable about a fourth wall. In one form a thread is anchored within the container to be drawn between the tops of the bags and separate them. When the container is folded open, the bags may be withdrawn one by one from the two halves of the container.

Claims

1. A container dispenser assembly comprising in combination:

an elongate rectangular container dispenser having continuous flat side walls and defining opposte end sections of the container;

first and second stacks of flat dispensable bags with one stack in one end section of the container and a second stack in the other end section of the container with the stacks located in parallel relationship and their top ends adjacent each other at the meeting of the sections of the container with the container holding the bags in their stacked relationship;

a fold line extending across one wall of the container in alignment with the top ends of the bags; and

means defining parallel tear lines with a tear strip therebetween and extending across the remaining container walls at the location of the top ends of the bags and joining the ends of the fold line so that the container walls may be separated by tearing said strip along the tear lines to expose the top ends of the bags to extend exposed a substantial distance above the tear lines when the container sections are folded toward one another at said fold line for facilitating individual removal of the bags from the container sections by grasping the upwardly extending exposed ends of the bags.

2. A container dispenser assembly constructed in accordance with claim 1:

wherein the bags are formed of a relatively slippery plastic so that the bags may be readily withdrawn from the sections of the container by grasping their top ends and removing them.

3. A container dispenser assembly constructed in accordance with claim 1:

wherein the top ends of the bags of one of the stacks are joined to the top ends of the individual bags of the other stack by frangible lines and the ends of the bags are separated by the time the sections of the container are folded along the fold line.

4. A container dispenser assembly constructed in accordance with claim 3, including a thread anchored at one end to the container adjacent to one end of the tear strip, the thread being anchored at a second end to a second end of the tear strip and the thread being generally aligned with said frangible lines so that when the tear strip is separated from the container section by tearing it from the tear lines starting at said second end of the strip, the thread will effect separation of the tops of the bags along said frangible lines.

5. A container dispenser assembly constructed in accordance with claim 1:

including means for holding the sections of the folded walls of the container together on each side of the fold line after the container has been separated along the frangible line.

6. A container dispenser assembly constructed in accordance with claim 5:

wherein said means is in the form of adhesive tape located between walls of the container sections.