Versatile carrying bag

• US 5,169,043 A
• Filed: 12/12/1990
• Issued: 12/08/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Claude L. Catania
• Original Assignee: Claude L. Catania
• Inventors: Catania, Claude L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Walczak, David J.
• Application Number:
  US07/626,748
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 224/224, 224/228, 224/253, 224/227, 224/229, 383/87
• US Class Current: 224/660
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 3/00 Flexible luggage; Handbags collapsible or extensible luggage, bags or the like A45C7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 3/00 Travelling or camp articles travelling rugs A47G9/06; Sacks or packs carried on the body convertible into other articles A45F4/00
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 3/005 Sacks or packs carried on the body by means of a single strap around the waist
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/93 Attached to animate bearer

Abstract

A versatile carrying bag useful for industrial and sporting use. The bag comprises front, rear, bottom, and side panels. The front and rear panels have exterior and interior surfaces, and upper and lower halves. The front panel and the lower half of the rear panel are substantially parallel. The upper half of the rear panel extends beyond the front panel to provide a margin which folds down over and overlaps the upper half of the front panel. Matching strips of a self-adhesive material are attached to the outer and inner surfaces of the upper halves of the front and rear panels, respectively, to provide reversible closure of the carrying bag. A pair of substantially parallel side panels are indented along their entire length. The indentations so formed are joined to the upper half of the rear panel and to the bottom panel, thereby forming an upper fold in the upper half of the rear panel, and a pair of lower folds in the bottom panel.

Claims

1. A method for the fabrication of a carrying bag, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) providing a flexible sheet having first and second surfaces, upper and lower halves, upper and lower edges, and parallel lateral edges;

(b) excising part of the sheet adjacent the lateral edges from the upper half of the sheet, and the corners of the sheet of the lower edge of the sheet, thereby forming a pair of triangular indentations in the upper half of the sheet, and a pair of oblique corners in the lower half of the sheet;

(c) attaching to the first surface of the lower half of the sheet near the lower edge thereof first reversible closure means;

(d) attaching to the second surface of the upper half of the sheet near the upper edge thereof second reversible closure means, the first and second closure means being adapted to mate reversibly with one another upon contact;

(e) folding the sheet to bring the first and second closure means together and edges of said indentations and corners into alignment, and to form an upper fold extending between the apex of each triangular indentation and a lower pair of folds sandwiching an intermediate fold in the sheet, and to bring the lower pair of folds opposite said upper fold;

(f) connecting all overlapping edges of each lateral edge together from each of the lower folds to the upper fold;

(g) separating the first and second reversible closure means; and

(h) inverting the first and second surfaces of the sheet by turning the sheet inside-out, thereby forming a carrying bag.

2. A carrying bag made by a method comprising the steps of:

(a) providing a flexible sheet having first and second surfaces, upper and lower halves, upper and lower edges, and parallel lateral edges;

(b) excising part of the sheet adjacent the lateral edges from the upper half of the sheet, and the corners of the sheet at the lower edge of the sheet, thereby forming a pair of triangular indentations in the upper half of the sheet, and a pair of oblique corners in the lower half of the sheet;

(c) attaching to the first surface of the lower half of the sheet near the lower edge thereof first reversible closure means;

(d) attaching to the second surface of the upper half of the sheet near the upper edge thereof second reversible closure means, the first and second closure means being adapted to mate reversibly with one another upon contact;

(e) folding the sheet to bring the first and second closure means together and said edges of said indentations and corners into alignment, and to form an upper fold extending between the apex of each triangular indentation and a lower pair of folds sandwiching an intermediate fold in the sheet, and to bring the lower pair of folds opposite said upper fold;

(f) connecting all overlapping edges of each lateral edge together from each of the lower folds to the upper fold;

(g) separating the first and second reversible closure means; and

(h) inverting the first and second surfaces of the sheet by turning the sheet inside-out, thereby forming a carrying bag.