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Plastic bag and plastic bag making apparatus

US7497624B2 · kind B2 · utility

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7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJul 22, 2003
Grant dateMar 3, 2009
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Expiry dateDec 8, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB31B2160/20
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A plastic bag including a pair of side gussets 1 is arranged to be free of leakage from one end portion of each of the side gussets.Each of the side gussets has opposite end portions one of which is folded obliquely along a folding line as it is folded into halves so that a triangular flap 13 can be formed by the end portion to be shaped into a triangle having a base formed by the folding line. The triangle has an apex formed by an intersection between one of the opposite end edges and the folded inner edge of each of the side gussets. The panels 2, the side gussets and the triangular flaps are heat sealed respectively along the opposite side edges 3 of panels.

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