Flexible containers and methods of forming the same

US10131468B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Tadayoshi Ishihara · Sharonville, US
• Joseph Craig Lester · Monroe, US
• Marc Richard Bourgeois · Kyles, US
• Kenneth Stephen McGuire · Montgomery, US
• Benjamin Jacob Clare · Cincinnati, US
• Scott Kendyl Stanley · Parker, US
• Lee Mathew Arent · Lancaster, US
• Jun You · Sharonville, US
• Andrew Paul Rapach · Lancaster, US
• Charles John Berg, Jr. · Wyoming, US
• Kory A. Gunnerson · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 6, 2014
• Grant date: Nov 20, 2018
• Expiry date: Feb 2, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2205/02
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of forming a flexible container can include folding a web or sheet to define one or more gussets in one or more regions of the flexible container. The gusset can be a continuous gusset or can be an interrupted gusset, having a seal disposed in the gusset.