Simple plastic bag opener
The wheel-based mechanism for opening plastic bags addresses the risk of viral infection by allowing glove use, facilitating hygienic opening without saliva or water, and overcoming static electricity issues.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- JP2024022419
- Authority / Receiving Office
- JP · JP
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-01-30
- Publication Date
- 2025-08-12
AI Technical Summary
Existing methods for opening plastic bags with static electricity require the use of personal saliva or water, posing a risk of viral infection, and are difficult while wearing gloves.
A wheel-based mechanism with a spring force and non-slip receiving base that opens plastic bags by rotating, allowing glove use and avoiding direct contact with potentially contaminated surfaces.
Enables easy and hygienic opening of plastic bags by rotating a wheel, preventing viral transmission and ensuring usability with gloves on.
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Abstract
Description
[Technical Field]
[0001] This invention relates to measures to prevent viral infection. [Background technology]
[0002] In the past, people would use their own saliva or water from sponges provided at stores to open plastic bags that stick together due to static electricity, but they were afraid of contracting the virus.
[0003] Supermarkets and other stores use air conditioning to keep food fresh, which dries the air and causes fingers to become dehydrated, making it difficult to open plastic bags. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]
[0004] The following documents are available in the prior art, but none of them rely on the rotation of a wheel or the like. 1. Slide your fingers back and forth [Patent Publication No. 2014-198589] 2. Move your finger to slide left and right [Patent Publication 2014-151968] 3. Slide your palm on the rubber board [Mito 3229106] 4. Attach a magnet to your fingers to remove static electricity and massage [Patent 7407323] Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]
[0005] This invention is suitable for preventing viral infection because it allows you to open plastic bags without using your own saliva or water from the sponge provided (which you cannot tell who has touched).
[0006] The present invention has the advantage that the plastic bag can be opened by rotating the wheel, so it can be used even while wearing gloves. [Means for solving the problem]
[0007] The force of the spring presses both sides of the plastic bag against the wheel and receiving seat.
[0008] The receiving base is fitted with a non-slip material with high friction resistance to prevent the plastic bags from slipping.
[0009] By rotating the wheel, only one side of the plastic bag is pulled, separating the sealed surfaces of the bag. TIFF2025117490000002.tif77124 [Effects of the Invention]
[0010] When this product is placed between a plastic bag, the spring force causes both sides of the bag to adhere tightly to the wheel and receiving seat.
[0011] When you turn the wheel, it pulls only one side of the plastic bag, making it easy to open.
[0012] The top of the plastic bag can be opened even with gloves on
[0013] Palm-sized so anyone can use it anywhere [Brief explanation of the drawings]
[0013] [Figure 1] 1A and 1B are plan and side views of the present invention; [Figure 2] Demonstrates usage [Explanation of symbols] 1. Easy plastic bag opener body 2. Spinning Wheel 3. Receptacle 4. Plastic bags
Claims
1. It is a clothespin-shaped device that clamps with spring force. One end of the two opposing rods has a wheel, and the other end has a seat. We provide an easy plastic bag opener.
2. The plastic bag opener according to claim 1, wherein the wheel is made of a rubber-like material with high friction resistance, and the corresponding receiving seat is also made of a non-slip material with similarly high friction resistance.
3. When a plastic bag is placed between the wheel and the receiving seat, the force of the spring causes both sides of the bag to adhere tightly to the wheel and the receiving seat, and when the wheel is turned with the fingers, one side of the plastic bag is pulled and moves as the wheel rotates, while the receiving seat side is fixed by the force of the anti-slip material, so the opening of the bag is opened [Claim 1 and 2].
4. The plastic bag opener according to claims 1, 2 and 3 is characterized in that it is operated by the rotation of a wheel, so that plastic bags can be opened even while wearing gloves.