Patent ID: 6779921
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: B31B,B65B,B65D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A film in combination with reclosable fastener assemblies for making reclosable bags on a form, fill, and seal process, comprising:a rectangular sheet of film having two parallel side edges and a top edge and a bottom edge, one of said top edge and said bottom edge providing a trailing edge and the other of said top edge and said bottom edge providing a leading edge for said film when forming reclosable bags, said fim being maintained in an unfolded state and having an inside surface and an outside surface, and said inside surface creating the inside of said reclosable bags formed from said film; a plurality of reclosable fastener assemblies each with two elongated interlocking profile strips and having two opposite ends, each of said reclosable fastener assemblies being maintained in interlocked relationship and oriented perpendicular to said side edges of said rectangular sheet of film, said fastener assemblies being positioned in single bag length apart, said fastener assemblies each being less than one half the width of said film, each said fastener assembly being connected to the inside surface of said film; each said fastener assembly having one of said profile strips defining a groove and the other of said profile strips defining a protuberance, said groove of said one profile strip being formed in a groove body and said protuberance of said other profile strip being formed in a protuberance body, said protuberance of said protuberance body being lockingly received in said groove of said groove body; and each fastener assembly having only a continuous elongated leg connected to one of said groove body and said protuberance body, and a continuous elongated arm connected to the other of said groove body and said protuberance body, said continuous leg extending from the side of said fastener assembly opposite said continuous arm, said continuous leg being greater than the width of said bodies of each said profile strip, each said fastener assembly being connected to said film by a portion of said continuous leg, said continuous leg extending toward said leading edge and said continuous arm extending away from said leading edge, whereby said leading edge of said combination of said film and said fastener assemblies can be fed into a form, fill, and seal machine for making bags.