Patent ID: 6012842
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A container convertible from the substantial form of a shopping bag suitable to carry an object to the substantial form of a package suitable to enclose the object, the container comprising:a collapsible foldable five-sided bag in the substantial shape of a rectilinear body, the bag being open at a one end side;handles attached to the five-sided bag in positions oppositely disposed about the bag's open-end side so as to permit the handled bag when un-collapsed and un-folded to be used as an object-carrying, or shopping, bag;a collapsible foldable five-sided open-ended lid permanently hinged to the bag at the bag's open end for undergoing hinging motion and also folding and unfolding along predetermined crease lines between (i) a first hinged position where the lid is located folded interior to the bag along a side of the bag at which first hinged position the lid is non-interfering with use of the bag to carry an object, and (ii) a second hinged position located exterior to the bag along an the same side of the bag at which second hinged position the lid unfolds so as to fit over the open-end side of the bag and about an adjacent portion of the bag's four adjacent sides as a lid complimentary in shape to, and completely enclosing, the bag as a sixth side thereof;wherein the lid is concealed within the bag during use of the bag as an object-carrying, or shopping, bag and does subsequently undergo hinging motion and also unfold so as to enclose the bag, transforming both the bag and the lid in combination into a six-sided package suitable to enclose the object.