Patent ID: 6056119
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
Inflatable packaging comprising a valve formed by a channel made between two flexible sheets extending at least partly inside said inflatable packaging and having a first opening communicating to outside of the packaging and a second opening communicating to inside of the packaging, said two flexible sheets being designed to be pressed against each other as soon as a force keeping said flexible sheets apart is removed, thus preventing an inflating gas from escaping from the packaging, wherein said two flexible sheets extend between two edges of the packaging and said first opening coincides with a second opening passing through one wall of the packaging, the edges of said first opening and said second opening being welded to each other and, upstream of said first opening, said two flexible sheets are welded to a body of a tab cut into said one wall of the packaging, said tab comprising one tab end by which said tab may be grasped said one tab end being free with respect to said two flexible sheets, and said tab being isolated from an internal volume of the packaging by a peripheral weld.