Patent ID: 6056344
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: A45F

Abstract:
A disposable handle for plastic bags having finger openings, said handle comprising a hollow tube of resilient cardboard having a continuous wall and a pair of open ends and a substantially longitudinal access slot provided by wedge shaped cuts disposed along said longitudinal access slot to provide a pair of opposed tube edges which are separated at each open end and which taper together to overlap about midway along the length of the longitudinal access slot, each of said pair of opposed tube edges having sides which converge at an acute angle to form an apex with an apex of a first of said pair of opposed tube edges overlapping an apex of a second of said pair of opposed tube edges, the handle having a shape and a construction which permits the surrounds of a plastic bag finger opening to be fed into either end of the access slot to move the edges apart, whereafter said edges return to said overlapping position to retain the handle on the bag.