T-shirt style bag with registered advertising strip, apparatus and method for making same

a technology of registered advertising and t-shirt, applied in the field of plastic bags, can solve the problem of losing at least one coupon

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-03-02
DANIELS MARK E +3
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[0023] A roll of plastic strip material is provided. The plastic strip material includes a plurality of plastic strips. Each of the strips has first and second remainder portions located at either end of the strip and a removable portion located between the remainder portions. The plastic strips have promotional material printed upon at least one of an upper surface or a ...

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As no method was provided in the prior patents to coordinate the placement of any point on the promotional strip with the top or botto...

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[0053] (1) As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 1A, a plastic shopping bag with registered advertising strip 10 may be formed from the following components. A pair of registering front 15 and back 20 walls are provided. The walls 15, 20 are secured together along their side 25, top 30 and bottom 35 edges and open across a portion of their top edges 30. The walls 15, 20, when pulled apart from each other, define a space 40 into which articles (not shown) may be placed. At least one of the secured together side edges 25 is gusseted. A plastic strip 45 is provided. The plastic strip 45 has first 50 and second 55 remainder portions located at either end 60 of the strip 45 and a removable portion 65 located between the remainder portions 50, 55. The plastic strip 45 is located on one of the front 15 and back 20 walls along one side 70 of the gusset 75. The strip 45 is of a length 80 not greater than a length 85 of the gusseted side edge 25. The strip 45 is sealed to one of the top edges 30 of t...

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Abstract

Plastic shopping bags having upper and lower seams, at least one side gusset, an open bag mouth and upper bag handles has attached promotional ad strips. The strips include a central removable portion and a pair of remainder portions at either end of the strip that are sealed into the upper and lower seams. The ad strips are registered to the upper and lower bag seams so that whole numbers of the coupons, messages or promotions will fall within the removable portion of the strip. Perforations join the removable portion of the strip to the remainder portions. An apparatus for registering the ad strips to plastic shopping bags includes markers on the bags and on the ad strips, sensors to detect the markers, a controller to match the speed of the ad strips to that of the bag blanks, a sealer, bag cutter and either a stacker or a winder.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] This invention relates to the field of plastic bags of the type employed by retailers in packing food items and other merchandise, with particular application to bags that are unsealed or partially sealed along their top edges and include a promotional strip attached in registered form to the bag to maximize the visibility of the promotional material. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] In our prior U.S. Pat. No. 5,882,118 and its divisional method U.S. Pat. No. 6,068,584, we disclosed and claimed the attachment of advertising strips to T-shirt bags and a method for accomplishing such attachments during the course of fabricating such bags from extruded plastic tubing. As the bags disclosed in our prior patent were heat-sealed along both their bottom and top edges, it was possible simultaneously to heat seal the ends of advertising strips to be attached to the bag along both the top and lower edges of such strips. These strips could be disposed either wit...

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IPC IPC(8): B65D30/20B65D33/10B65D30/00
CPCB31B19/36B31B19/90B31B23/00B31B2219/2627B65D33/004B31B2219/9009B31B2237/10B31B2237/40B31B2237/406B31B2219/269B31B70/00B31B2160/10B31B70/36B31B2155/00B31B70/266B31B70/8123B31B2155/001B31B2155/0014
Inventor DANIELS, MARK E.VANCE, JEFFBEDARD, BRIANWILFONG, HARRY
Owner DANIELS MARK E
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