Bag With Handle And Method For Manufacture Thereof

Abstract

A bag with handle and method for producing the bag that incorporates the features of four seal bag body with a new handle part to obtain a new bag with a durable bag body that can carry a heavy load, can be stacked in high number without falling, consume less space in storage and transportation, has large front space and side spaces for product information display while on shelf, that is convenient to hold, strong and secure, that does not cut fingers in use, and that may be applied to shopping bags or reusable or resealable packaging bags. The concept of the method of producing said bag is steps of folding, assembling, and sealing a plurality of sheet materials which are not obvious to a person ordinarily skilled in the art.

Claims

1. A bag with handle comprising: a bag body part and a handle part wherein the bag body part and the handle part are made from sheet materials characterized in that the bag body part has a three-dimensional shape similar to a hollow rectangular prism provided with sheet materials as cover on at least four sides and the handle part comprises a handle consisting of one of sheet materials constituting the bag body part, the handle covering a handle strip made from at least another sheet material, the handle and the covered handle strip being sealed at at least one position, and the handle being provided with a handle pulling hole having a cutout shape to allow the user to directly touch the handle strip and to insert the fingers through one side of the bag, through the thickness of the bag, and through the other side of the bag.

2. The bag with handle according to claim 1 wherein the handle part is provided with two handles made from one of sheet materials constituting the bag body part, each of the handles covering a handle strip made from at least one sheet material, the handles and the covered handle strips being sealed at at least one position, and each of the handles being provided with a handle pulling hole having a cutout shape to allow the user to directly touch the handle strips and to insert the fingers through one side of the bag, through the thickness of the bag, and through the other side of the bag.

3. The bag with handle according to claim 2 wherein a resealing mechanism is provided.

4. The bag with handle according to claim 1 wherein the bag body part and the handle part are assembled in an air tight manner.

5. The bag with handle according to claim 1 wherein the bag body part is provided with a bag bottom.

6. The bag with handle according claim 5 wherein the bag bottom is provided with pleat.

7. The bag with handle according to claim 1 wherein the bag ridges are provided with pleat.

8. The bag with handle according to claim 1 wherein any one of sheet materials is a plastic sheet coated or not coated with laminate or composite plastic, or natural or synthetic fiber coated plastic, or paper, wood, fabric fiber, or aluminum foil.

9. The bag with handle according to claim 1 wherein the sheet materials are of multiple types.

10. The bag with handle according to claim 1 wherein the sheet materials are of different thicknesses.

11. A method of producing the bag with handle consisting of: a step of folding or bending a main sheet material characterized in that the peak of the folded or bent main sheet material divides the main sheet material into two parts, the distances from the edges on the farthest side from the peak of each of the main sheet material parts to the peak are similar and a step of inserting at least another sheet material through the peak such that the another sheet material is opposite to the peak with two sides facing the main sheet material and a step of cutting out a portion of the peak of the main sheet material to, after the sheet material is inserted through the peak, form a hole to allow the user to directly touch the inserted sheet material and to insert fingers through the hole and a step of sealing the inserted sheet material to be connected to the main sheet material and a step of assembling another two sheet materials and sealing them to the main sheet material to obtain a three-dimensional shape similar to a hollow rectangular prism with sheet materials as covers on at least four sides.

12. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 characterized in that: in the step of folding or bending the main sheet material, the folded or bent main sheet material forms two peaks and a deep groove, both peaks being interposed by the deep groove and protruding in the same direction, the deep groove being positioned between both peaks and extending in opposite direction to that of the two peaks and in the step of inserting the sheet material through the peak, each of the two peaks is inserted with at least one sheet material.

13. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 12 further comprising a step of sealing a resealing mechanism.

14. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 further comprising a step of sealing a portion of the main sheet material to be connected to another portion of the same main sheet material such that air is prevented from entering from the space on the opposite side to the peak to be inserted by the sheet material to the space to be enclosed by the main sheet material and at least four sides of sheet material after they are sealed together.

15. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 wherein the step of folding or bending the main sheet material is characterized in that the distances from the edges on the farthest side from the peak of each of the folded or bent main sheet material parts to the peak are different and further comprising a step of forming the bag bottom by connecting the end of the longer side of the main sheet material to the end of the shorter side.

16. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 15 further comprising a step of folding or bending the longer side of the main sheet material to form a pleat on the bag bottom.

17. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 further comprising assembling another sheet material to be the bag bottom with the main sheet material.

18. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 17 wherein the portion of main sheet material to be the bag bottom is folded or bent before it is assembled with the main sheet material.

19. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 wherein at least one of the two sheet materials to be sealed to the main sheet material to form a three-dimensional shape similar to a hollow rectangular prism with the sheet materials as covers on at least four sides is folded or bent before it is assembled with the main sheet material.

20. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 wherein any one of the sheet materials is a plastic coated or not coated with laminate or composite plastic, or natural or synthetic fiber coated plastic, or paper, wood, fabric fiber, or aluminum foil.

21. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 wherein the sheet materials are of multiple types.

22. The method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11 wherein the sheet materials are of different thicknesses.

23. The bag with handle obtained from the method of producing the bag with handle according to claim 11.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0013] FIGS. 1A, 1B, and 1C show an example of the method of producing the bag with one handle.

[0014] FIG. 2 shows an example of production of the bag using bag ridge sheets that are folded before sealed to the bag body.

[0015] FIG. 3 shows an example of production of the bag bottom by sealing the bag bottom sheet to the bag body.

[0016] FIG. 4 shows an example of production of the bag bottom without sealing the bag bottom sheet to the bag body.

[0017] FIG. 5 shows an example of the bag with handle containing a product in use.

[0018] FIGS. 6A, 6B, and 6C show an example of the method of producing the bag with two handles.

[0019] FIG. 7 shows an example of the bag with handle provided with the resealing mechanism (122).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0020] The detailed description of the invention as follows is only illustrations of specific exemplary cases described for a person ordinarily skilled in the art to be able to appreciate the concept of the present invention and implement it and not for restriction and limitation of the present invention. An ordinarily skilled person acknowledging the concept of the present disclosure would be able to creatively and commonly contemplate to apply the concept of the invention in other fashions only with differences in the details.

[0021] In addition, mentioning any one component, structure, or characteristic in one or an embodiment of invention or a similar term would means the entity as present in the mentioned embodiment but said entity may not be present in all possible embodiments. If said term is present multiple times, it may means the same or a different invention. In case multiple components, structures, or characteristics are present in a drawing, said entity may be present in a single invention or different embodiments. An ordinarily skilled person acknowledging the concept of the present disclosure would be able to creatively and commonly contemplate that an entity as present in an embodiment can be applied with another embodiment under the same concept directly or with changes in details.

[0022] A sheet material as present in the following disclosure, unless otherwise particularly specified, would means a laminated or non-laminated plastic sheet including those produced by conventional forming processes e.g. blowing, casting, weaving, fiber spinning, and the like, or other types of plastic e.g. composite plastic, or natural or synthetic fiber coated plastic, or paper, wood, fabric fiber, or aluminium foil.

[0023] A seal as present, unless otherwise particularly specified, would means sealing using heat, pressure, solvent, adhesive, sewing, or other methods and may be lap seal or fin seal or other types of seal that form a strong connection or seal suitable for uses or conditions of the product to be contained in a bag. A person ordinarily skilled in the art would be able to contemplate and choose a sealing method.

[0024] FIGS. 1A, 1B, and 1C show a method for folding and assembling sheet materials for forming a bag with handle according to an embodiment. A main sheet material (100), preferably in substantially rectangular shape, is folded or bent at a position close to the center of a side to form two sides with similar lengths. The first portion (101) and the second portion (102) of the sheet material are arranged such that the same sides face each other. The folded or bent top of the main sheet material (100) forms a handle (105) to be inserted into by a handle strip (106). A first end (103) and a second end (104) are separated as shown in FIG. 1A.

[0025] The handle strip (106) may be made of the same material or a different material from the main sheet material (100), preferably a sheet material with higher tensile strength per sectional unit area than that of the main sheet material (100). Otherwise, the handle strip (106) should be a sheet material with similar tensile strength per sectional unit area to that of the main sheet material (100) but with higher thickness than that of the main sheet material (100) such that the tensile strength of the handle strip (106) is higher than that of the main sheet material (100). The handle strip (106) can be of any sizes, preferably with a length (106L) close to or equal to the length of the handle (105L) and with a width (106W) suitable for holding without cutting the holder's fingers or cut to said width and length. In addition, the handle strip (106) to be inserted into the handle (105) in any embodiment may be a plurality of handle strip (106).

[0026] Portions of the handle (105) are cut out to form handle pulling hole (107) to allow the user to directly touch the handle strip (106) after the bag is formed. The width (107W) and the length (107L) of the handle pulling hole (107) can be of any sizes, preferably a size with sufficient space for insertion of the user's fingers. Both of bag ridge sheets (108), (108) are sealed to a first side edge portion (109), (109) and to a second side edge portion (110), (110) for closing the space between the first side edge portion (109), (109) and the second side edge portion (110), (110). The bag ridge sheets (108), (108) may be the same or different material from the main sheet material (100) as shown in details in FIG. 1B.

[0027] The handle strip (106) may be sealed to both handle ends (111), (111) or to both seal stamps (112), preferably to said all four positions. The seal stamps (112) may be positioned anywhere, preferably close to the center between the handle pulling hole (107) and both handle ends (111), (111). The sealing of the handle strip (106) to the handle (105) using other methods is possible. The bag obtained from the present step has an opening at the bag bottom (113) for loading product into the bag before sealing the bag bottom for subsequent merchandising. The details are shown in FIG. 1C.

[0028] The steps as shown in FIGS. 1A, 1B, and 1C and as described above may be perform in order as described or not. For example, some portions of the handle (105) may be cut to form the handle pulling hole (107) before or after the step of sealing both of the bag ridge sheets (108), (108) to the first side edge portion (109), (109) and to the second side edge portion (110), (110) to close the space between the first side edge portion (109), (109) and the second side edge portion (110), (110). An ordinarily skilled person would be able to creatively and commonly contemplate to determine the orders of the above-mentioned steps following the concept of the invention with differences from the examples only in details

[0029] In an embodiment, bag ridge sheets (108a), (108a) are folded or bent before sealed to the first side edge portion (109), (109) and to the second side edge portion (110), (110) as shown in FIG. 2.

[0030] In another embodiment, a bag bottom sheet (108) is assembled to the other open side of the main material sheet (100) to seal the first end (103) to the second end (104) to form a bag bottom (116). The bag bottom sheet (108) may be made of the same or different material from that of the main sheet material (100). The details are shown in FIG. 3.

[0031] In another embodiment, the steps for forming the bag bottom (116) can be reduced by folding or bending a main sheet material (100) into two portions of different lengths wherein any portion may be longer that the other one. In an example according to FIG. 4, a second portion (102) of the main sheet material is longer than a first portion (103) of the main sheet material wherein the length difference between both main sheet materials is close to the desired width of the bag bottom (116) and a second end (104) is sealed to be connected to the first end (103) to form the bag bottom (116). In addition, bag bottom pleats (117) may be formed before or after the sealing of the second end (104) to the first end (103).

[0032] The methods for producing bag and the bag products produced as shown in FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C, 2, 3, and 4 do not include bag opening hermetic sealing. Therefore, they may be applied to manufacturing or used as bags for containing products that do not need air tight protection, or applied to manufacturing or used as reusable shopping bag as desired.

[0033] Example of a finished bag is shown in FIG. 5 showing a configuration of the bag in use i.e. the bag has a bag bottom (116), a product (118) contained therein and held by the handle (106) (the holder's hand is not shown).

[0034] In another embodiment showing the details as shown in FIG. 5, a bag opening seal seam (114) is provided for an air tight protection after the product is contained and the bag bottom is sealed. After the buyer or consumer open the bag opening seal seam (114), the bag cannot be resealed with the same security.

[0035] For clarity in description, in case of bag with single handle (105), the bag body part (201) and the handle part (202) are separated by a lower edge (203) of the handle strip (106) as shown in FIG. 5.

[0036] FIGS. 6A, 6B, and 6C show a method for folding and assembling sheet materials for forming the bag with handle according to another embodiment. A main sheet material (100), preferably in substantially rectangular shape, is folded or bent to form a deep groove (119) close to the center of a side. The first portion (101) and the second portion (102) of the main sheet material with similar lengths are both folded or bent to form two peaks protruding in opposite direction to the deep groove (119). Both peaks form two handles (105) to be inserted into each by at least one handle strip (106). The depth (119D) of the deep groove (119) is equal to or deeper than the width (106W) of the handle strip, preferably two times deeper. The first end (103) and the second end (104) are separated. The cutting of the handles (105) to form the handle pulling holes (107) is performed identically or similarly to and in the same manner as that for forming the bag with a single handle (105) (as shown and explained in FIG. 3) wherein both handles can be cut simultaneously or not. The details are shown in FIG. 6A.

[0037] With regard to assembling of a bag with two handles (105) in another embodiment, a handle seal seam (120) can be provided for reinforcement of each handle (105) and for an air tight protection but not for sealing the bag opening. After sealing both of the bag ridge sheets (108), (108) to the first side edge portion (109), (109) and to the second side edge portion (110), (110) to close the space between the first side edge portion (109), (109) and the second side edge portion (110), (110), the deep groove (119) will define a bag opening-closing tongue (121) hidden between both handles (105). The details are shown in FIG. 6B. In addition, to reuse the bag, the user must cut out the bag opening-closing tongue (121) for the first opening to allow the contained product to be transferred. The cut bag opening-closing tongue (121) cannot be reused to close the bag opening.

[0038] Sealing the handle strip (106) to each handle (105) is performed as described above in details. In summary, both ends of the handle strip (106) may be sealed to both handle ends (111), (111) or to the seal stamps (112) or other methods or a combination of more than one of methods as mentioned can be used. The details are shown in FIG. 6C.

[0039] Furthermore, all methods of folding the bag ridge sheet (108), (108) before sealing according to FIG. 2 or forming the bag bottom using the bag bottom sheet (108) according to FIG. 5 or forming the bag bottom by folding or bending a main sheet material (100) into two portions with different lengths according to FIG. 4 can be applied to the bag with two handles (105) according to FIGS. 6A, 6B, and 6C. A person ordinarily skilled in the art who have thoroughly read said description of the drawings as mentioned above would be able to apply it to the bag with two handles (105) by himself.

[0040] In another embodiment as shown in details in FIG. 7, a resealing mechanism (122) is provided for the purpose of enabling opening of the bag for usage of the product or transferring the product through the bag opening and sealing the bag opening when the product is not used or transferred using the same mechanism to prevent falling of the product and entering of air. Therefore, the original mechanism cannot be used to open and close the bag multiple times while maintaining security in similar extent. An example of the resealing mechanism (122) of an embodiment is a mechanism provided with male and female zippers sealed to opposite sides of the inner surface of the bag in easy-to-contact positions. In opening state of the bag, when the male and female zippers are brought to contact and pressed along the entire zipper line, the bolt part of the male zipper is inserted into the bolt receptacle of the female zipper. Thereby temporarily locking both zippers for closing the bag with sufficient security to prevent air from entering and to prevent them from separating away with little pulling force applied on the bag opening. In closing state of the bag, it can be reopened by pulling the area above the zipper line. Said mechanism including the method of sealing the mechanism onto the bag are all known to an ordinarily skilled person. Therefore, details in a drawing are not needed.

[0041] In another embodiment, the handle seal seam (120), the bag opening-closing tongue (121), and the resealing mechanism (122) are all provided in the same bag. Preferably, the resealing mechanism (122) is positioned further away from the handle (105) than the handle seal seam (120), particularly preferably the resealing mechanism (122) is further away from the handle (105) than the bag opening-closing tongue (121). The details are shown in FIG. 7.

[0042] For clarity in description, in case of the bag with two handles (105), the bag body part (201) and the handle part (202) are separated by the bag opening-closing tongue (121) according to FIG. 7.