Patent ID: 6428642
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: B65B,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of making reclosable containers, comprising the steps of:providing a web of film material; providing a plurality of zipper assemblies, each of said zipper assemblies including a first flange with a pair of first spaced apart zipper profiles thereon and a second flange with a pair of second spaced apart zipper profiles thereon, wherein each of said first zipper profiles reclosably engage one of said second zipper profiles; sealing said first flanges to said web in a transverse direction; folding said web and sealing lateral edges of said web to each other thereby forming at tube; sealing folded portions of said web to said second flange; forming two closely spaced adjacent transverse seals in said tube substantially half way between said zipper assemblies; and severing said tube transversely along a substantial midpoint of said first flange between said zipper assemblies thereby forming tops of two adjacent reclosable containers, including a rightside up reclosable container and an upside down reclosable container.