Reclosable Bag

Abstract

The bag has an elongate opening 20 in a front panel 10 of the bag. The opening 20 is openable and reclosable by a zipper 22 located in the opening 20 and consisting of first and second profiles, having interengagable male and female formations, and a slider for engagement and release of the formations. Each profile further has a flange which is secured to the front panel of the bag adjacent the opening 20. The flanges extend in opposite directions from the interengagable parts of the profiles. A closure sheet 60 covers the zipper to form a tamper-evident feature and is releasable along a line-of-weakness 64.

1 . A reclosable container having a wall portion having therein an elongate opening in which is located a zipper closure which comprises first and second interengagable profiles and a slider mounted on the profiles and slidable therealong to engage and disengage the profiles upon sliding movement in respective opposite directions, wherein each zipper profile comprises a longitudinally-extending body portion and a longitudinally-extending lateral flange portion, the body portions overlapping each other and being shaped to interengage when pressed together by movement of the slider in one of its directions of movement and to be separated from each other by movement of the slider in the other, opposite direction, and the flange portions extend laterally from the respective body portions in directions opposite to each other.  
   
   
       2 . A reclosable container according to  claim 1 , wherein the body portions are substantially identical to each other in cross-sectional shape.  
   
   
       3 . A reclosable container according to  claim 1 , wherein the flange portions are substantially coplanar with each other.  
   
   
       4 . A reclosable container according to  claim 1 , having a closure sheet which encloses the zipper closure and provides a tamper-evident feature.  
   
   
       5 . A reclosable container according to  claim 4 , wherein the closure sheet is attached to the flange portions of the zipper along their lengths.  
   
   
       6 . A reclosable container according to  claim 5 , wherein the closure sheet is attached to at least one flange portion along a line of weakness.  
   
   
       7 . A reclosable container according to  claim 6 , which is a reclosable bag.  
   
   
       8 . A bag according to  claim 7 , wherein the opening is formed in a major planar surface of the bag.  
   
   
       9 . (canceled)