Container and container with enclosed contents

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10988294-B2
Application number	US-201514823538-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 11, 2015
Priority date	Feb 3, 2012
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

A container includes a bag, which has an internal space to accommodate contents and an opening, and a fastener to open and close the opening. The fastener includes a high engaging-strength portion and a low engaging portion. The bag includes a bag body forming the internal space and a vapor passage portion to remove vapor from the internal space, and places contents into the internal space through the opening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A container comprising:
a bag including
an internal space to accommodate a content,
a first opening, the bag being adapted to receive the content into the internal space through the first opening,
a bag body that forms the internal space, and
a sealing portion that unopenably seals an edge of the first opening to close the first opening;

a bottom gusset that supports the bag body; and
a fastener to open and close the first opening in a longitudinal direction of the fastener, the fastener having a first side and a second side opposite the first side and including a female track extending in the longitudinal direction on the first side and a male track extending in the longitudinal direction on the second side and the first opening to be closed by closing of the female track and the male track, wherein
the bag includes a top portion opposite the bottom gusset, and the top portion includes a single opening that is the first opening,
the female track includes
a high engaging-strength female portion and
a low engaging-strength female portion contiguous with the high engaging-strength female portion in the longitudinal direction of the fastener, the low engaging-strength female portion provided with a portion different from a portion of the high engaging-strength female portion,

the male track includes
a high engaging-strength male portion couplable to the high engaging-strength female portion and decouplable from the high engaging-strength female portion at disengaging strength and
a low engaging-strength male portion contiguous with the high engaging-strength male portion in the longitudinal direction of the fastener, the low engaging-strength male portion provided with a portion different from a portion of the high engaging-strength male portion, to be couplable to the low engaging-strength female portion and decouplable from the low engaging-strength female portion at lower disengaging strength lower than the disengaging strength, and

in a state in which the first opening is closed by coupling of the high engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the high engaging-strength male portion of the male track and coupling of the low engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the low engaging-strength male portion of the male track, and in which the content is accommodated in the internal space, the first opening is to be partially opened by at least partial and recouplable decoupling of the low engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the low engaging-strength male portion of the male track at the lower disengaging strength by a rise in pressure of the internal space while the first opening is partially closed by the coupling of the high engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the high engaging-strength male portion of the male track when the rise in pressure is caused by vapor generated from the content.

2. The container according to claim 1 , wherein
the container has a form of a free-standing container.

3. The container according to claim 1 , wherein the bag includes a vapor passage portion to remove vapor from the internal space.

4. The container according to claim 1 , wherein a low engaging-strength portion formed by the closing of the low engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the low engaging-strength male portion of the male track has an engaging strength in the range of 0% to 90% of an engaging strength of a high engaging-strength portion formed by the closing of the high engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the high engaging-strength male portion of the male track.

5. The container according to claim 1 , wherein a length of a low engaging-strength portion formed by the closing of the low engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the low engaging-strength male portion of the male track, in the longitudinal direction of the fastener, is in the range of 5% to 70% of a length of the fastener in the longitudinal direction.

6. The container according to claim 3 , wherein
the bag includes a vapor passage sealing portion to seal the vapor passage portion, and
the vapor passage sealing portion can be separated from the vapor passage portion.

7. The container according to claim 6 , wherein
the bag further includes a vapor passage guide line, and
the vapor passage sealing portion can be separated from the vapor passage portion along the vapor passage guide line.

8. The container according to claim 1 , wherein
the bag further includes an easily-openable sealing portion to open and close the first opening, and
the easily-openable sealing portion is formed between the fastener and the internal space in the first opening.

9. A content sealing container comprising:
the container according to claim 1 , wherein the first opening is sealed; and
the content, accommodated in the bag of the container.

10. A content sealing container comprising:
a content that generates vapor when heated; and
a container comprising
a bag including
an internal space accommodating the content therein,
a first opening, the bag being adapted to receive the content into the internal space through the first opening,
a bag body that forms the internal space, and
a sealing portion that unopenably seals an edge of the first opening to close the first opening;

a bottom gusset that supports the bag body; and
a fastener to open and close the first opening in a longitudinal direction of the fastener, the fastener having a first side and a second side opposite the first side and including a female track extending in the longitudinal direction on the first side and a male track extending in the longitudinal direction on the second side and the first opening to be closed by closing of the female track and the male track, wherein
the bag includes a top portion opposite the bottom gusset, and the top portion includes a single opening that is the first opening,
the female track includes
a high engaging-strength female portion and
a low engaging-strength female portion contiguous with the high engaging-strength female portion in the longitudinal direction of the fastener, the low engaging-strength female portion provided with a portion different from a portion of the high engaging-strength female portion,

the male track includes
a high engaging-strength male portion couplable to the high engaging-strength female portion and decouplable from the high engaging-strength female portion at disengaging strength and
a low engaging-strength male portion contiguous with the high engaging-strength male portion in the longitudinal direction of the fastener, the low engaging-strength male portion provided with a portion different from a portion of the high engaging-strength male portion, to be couplable to the low engaging-strength female portion and decouplable from the low engaging-strength female portion at lower disengaging strength lower than the disengaging strength,

the first opening is sealed, and
in a state in which the first opening is closed by coupling of the high engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the high engaging-strength male portion of the male track and coupling of the low engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the low engaging-strength male portion of the male track, and in which the content is accommodated in the internal space, the first opening is to be partially opened by at least partial and recouplable decoupling of the low engaging-strength female portion of the female track and the low engaging-strength male portion of the male track at the lower disengaging strength by a rise in pressure of the internal space while the first

Assignees

• Toppan Printing Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sasaki Noriyuki
• Kondo Hideya

Classifications

• B65D33/25

  Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners · CPC title

• B65D75/5805

  for tearing a side strip parallel and next to the edge, e.g. by means of a line of weakness · CPC title

• B65D33/2558

  the slide fastener having a non-constant section throughout the length of the fastener, e.g. slightly undulated interlocking members or castellated stringers · CPC title

• B65D75/008

  Standing pouches, i.e. "Standbeutel" · CPC title

• B65D33/16

  End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices (valves of valve bags {B65D31/14}; closures of filled bags B65D77/10) · CPC title