Patent ID: 6120184
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: B65D,Y10S

Abstract:
A bag apparatus, having a repeatedly openable and reclosable pour spout, comprising:a tubular bag body, fabricated from at least one layer of bag material;the tubular bag body having at least one end configured to form an open mouth and having first and second opposing sides adjacent the mouth;a closure flap emanating from the first of the opposing sides of the mouth, and operably configured to be folded across the mouth and over at least a first portion of an outer surface of the second of the opposing sides of the mouth;the closure flap having an inside surface operably configured to be placed in juxtaposed alignment over the at least first portion of the outer surface of the second of the opposing sides of the mouth;a spout structure, operably affixed to a portion of the outside surface of the tubular bag body, includinga base sheet, operably positioned on and over at least a further portion of the portion of the outer surface of the second of the opposing sides of the mouth, the base sheet having an outside surface;a spout flap, operably disposed in substantially aligned overlying contact with the base sheet, the spout flap having an inside surface;a first adhesive material operably disposed on at least one of the inside surface of the spout flap and the outside surface of the base sheet, the first adhesive material being operably disposed to releasably hold the inside surface of the spout flap to the outside surface of the base sheet, after the spout flap and the base sheet have been brought into the substantially aligned overlying contact with each other;the spout structure being operably disposed on the further portion of the portion of the outer surface of the second of the opposing sides of the mouth, so that upon operable positioning of a second, substantially non-releasable adhesive material upon the inside surface of the closure flap and further upon the juxtaposed alignment of the closure flap over and against the portion of the outer surface of the second of the opposing sides of the mouth, the spout flap becomes non-releasably affixed to a portion of the inside surface of the closure flap;complete separation of the spout flap from the base sheet enabling a portion of the mouth of the bag to be reopened for providing access to an interior region of the tubular bag body, the first adhesive material permitting the spout flap and base sheet to be repeatedly separated and releasably reattached to one another, to, in turn, permit at least a portion of the mouth to be repeatedly opened and reclosed.