Dual compartment bag

Abstract

A dual compartment bag is disclosed. The bag has a central panel with the two compartments being located on opposing sides of the central panel. The two other panels are positioned flat on opposing sides of the central panel, and fixed to the central panel around the perimeter of the panels. One edge of the perimeter of the central panel and a first of the other panels is not closed and another edge of the perimeter of the central panel and the second of the other panels is not closed. These unclosed edges provide access to the spaces between the central panel and the other panels in a preferred embodiment and these openings are located at opposing ends from each other around the perimeter of the bag. One of the edges at each opening may have a flap extending from the edge. The flap may have an adhesive strip for holding the flap closed and sealing the compartment.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] This invention relates generally to plastic bags and a method of making plastic bags. More specifically, this invention is a multiple compartment plastic bag having openings to the compartments on each of the opposite ends of the bag. Flaps at the openings provide means for closing the compartments. The method relating to the bag is a means of producing the bag. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Plastic bags are ubiquitous throughout the world due to their inexpensive and convenient nature. Plastic bags are far less expensive to produce than conventional paper bags and generally require less natural resources to produce. In addition to economy, plastic bags are popular with consumers as they can be constructed in a variety of shapes and sizes, and plastic bags may feature a variety of colors or may be clear. Generally speaking, plastic bags can provide a vapor barrier to protect the contents of the bag, and they are lightweight such as to not add signi...

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Benefits of technology

[0015] It is a further objective of the present invention to provide a bag with multiple compartments that is economical to produce.

[0017] It is also an objective of the present invention to set forth a dual compartment shipping bag which minimizes the effort required to the end user to load contents into the bag compartments.

Problems solved by technology

Although the patents listed above and others not listed all claim or disclose multiple compartment plastic bags, they are generally not optimum as the loading of the bags is unnecessarily cumbersome.

Furthermore, the pocket arrangement of many of the prior art bags results in a loaded package which is lopsided in weight which is generally undesirable.

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