Adapter for dispensing rack for T-shirt style bags with rupturable tab opening
US6382429B1 · kind B1 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 9, 2001 |
| Grant date | May 7, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 9, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65D33/001
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An adapter for use with dispensing racks having a central mounting hook and T-shirt style bags with tab openings providing a rupturable portion of the tab between the tab opening and the bag mouth is described. The adapter includes a hollow body with a cavity that is sized and shaped to fit frictionally over the central mounting hook. The body has a front surface, a top surface, a bottom surface, first and second side edges and a back surface. The back surface includes a vertically oriented tearing ridge. The adapter's cavity is fitted over the central mounting hook with the front surface facing a direction in which the support arms extend. When a pack of T-shirt style bags that have the tab opening with a rupturable portion mounted on the support arms with the tab openings of the bags placed over the adapter, the tearing ridge will serve to facilitate tearing the rupturable portion of the mounting tab as a bag is removed from the dispensing rack so that the mounting tab will remain attached to the bag. Variations of the adapter include bodies with rounded top surfaces and tapered side edges, bodies with a vertical channel and bodies with an opening into the channel. Other variants…
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.