Multi-use bag carrier, or loose/disparate item consolidator

a multi-use, bag carrier technology, applied in the direction of traveling carriers, packaging, travelling articles, etc., can solve the problems of time management and overall convenience, unwieldy task, and efficient organization and management of plastic grocery shopping bags

US20080001041A1Inactive Publication Date: 2008-01-03ASCANIO GUILLERMO
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US · United States
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Publication Date
2008-01-03
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Abstract

An organizer for facilitating the arrangement and organization of plastic shopping bags in a shopping trip, also lending itself to the general organization and cohesion of items that are difficult to consolidate or unify. Included are a first elongated member and a second elongated member extending from the first elongated member. The first and second elongated members combine to define therewithin a space for accommodating at least portions of items, the first elongated member acting to accommodate a plurality of looped items thereabout, the second elongated member at an introduction gap for introducing looped items therethrough to the accommodating space. Further, the second elongated member is elastically deformable to alter a width of the introduction gap.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED U.S. APPLICATION

[0001] This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 804,891, filed on Jun. 15, 2006, and entitled, respectively, “Improved One-Piece Carrier”, the contents of which are hereby fully incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The present invention addresses problems relating to the arrangement and organization of plastic shopping bags in a shopping trip, and more broadly to the general organization and cohesion of items that are difficult to consolidate or unify. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0003] Grocery shopping, as an oft thankless domestic task, presents challenges in the realm of time management and overall convenience that are too numerous to mention. Anything to make such a task easier or more pleasant would likely be highly welcome.

[0004] One oft encountered problem is in the efficient organization and management of plastic grocery shopping bags. Normally, a shopper must wrestle...

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[0014] For a better understanding of the present invention, together with other and further features and advantages thereof, reference is made to the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and the scope of the invention will be pointed out in the appended claims.

[0015] It will be readily understood that the components of the present invention, as generally described and illustrated in the Figures herein, may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations. Thus, the following more detailed description of the embodiments of the apparatus, system, and method of the present invention, as represented in FIGS. 1 through 6, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention.

[0016] Reference throughout this specification to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” (or the like) means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in...