Patent ID: 7287904
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: A44B,B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A reclosable plastic bag having at least two panels of plastics sheet or film joined to, or integral with, each other, or a combination of both, to define a bag with an opening, separable fastening means of one or more interengagable elongate rib/groove configurations to close said opening, a slider positioned in straddling relationship to said fastening means, said slider including a support member overlying the opening to the bag and straddling said fastening means, and also carrying a separating finger to engage with and separate said fastening means when said slider is moved to a first end of said fastening means in a bag opened condition, and a pair or legs extending from said support member to force said fastening means into interengaging relationship when the said slider is moved to a second end of said fastening means in a bag closed condition, means on said legs and extending beneath said fastening means to retain said slider on said bag, and wherein edges of said panels of said bag adjacent said second end of fastening means are bonded together with a portion thereof between said bonding and said fastening means being crimped to define a torturous path defined by transversely directed projections between said panels into which path part of the slider is received to be gripped by said projections of said panels on either side of said torturous path to thereby retain said slider in the bag closed condition.