Handle for carrying bags

Abstract

A carrying handle of a plastic foil or cardboard for placing at packages, e.g. bags of plastic or paper, and especially for incorporating in the material of the package. The parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′) of the handle have or will each get carvings ( 3 ) and ( 3 ′) shaped as a part of a handle with the regions ( 4 ) and ( 4 ′) attached at the top and with extensions ( 7 ) and ( 7 ′). When the regions ( 4 ) and ( 4 ′) are bent around the folding lines ( 5 ) and ( 5 ′) to a soft rounding ( 6 ), the extensions then can be fastened into the slits ( 8 ) and/or ( 8 ′) for closing and locking. A special incorporated carrying handle, possibly with extra material ( 9 ) on one side of the bag, can have a set of carvings the other way around ( 3 a ) etc. The filled bag is folded and closed around a marked folding line ( 10 ) before locking. Handles for attaching can have the parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ) connected, so they after the folding around the folding line ( 10 ) can be placed more precisely. Handles related to the invention can be expanded to independent carrying packages, that can be delivered plane and shut and locked around the content without any previous gluing.

1 . A carrying handle preferably for placing at two opposite top edges on a bag or another package, where each of the parted or attached parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′) of the handle either is of a thin or relatively stiff foil of plastic, cardboard etc. for attaching to the package ( 1 ) or consists of the material itself for the package ( 1 ), possibly reinforced with extra material ( 9 ), and which has or is equipped with carvings ( 3 ), ( 3 ′) designed as a part of a handle with from the carved material preserved regions ( 4 ) and ( 4 ′), which are attached at the top and which preferably are alike in the two parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′), characterized by the fact, that the two parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′) by bending of the regions ( 4 ) and ( 4 ′), usually around folding lines ( 5 ) and ( 5 ′), are locked to each other through the bent regions ( 4 ) and ( 4 ′), which possibly have incisions and are of different shapes and lengths, preferably by the use of extensions ( 7 ) and ( 7 ′), which possibly have barbs, and which are meant to be fastened into corresponding slits ( 8 ) and/or ( 8 ′), or to have other means for attaching, e.g. pressure locks, adhesives, Velcro fastenings, embossments or a thin and stiff aluminum foil. 
   
   
       2 . A carrying handle according to  claim 1  characterized by the fact, that the folding lines ( 5 ) and ( 5 ′) on the two parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′) are supplemented with extra, preferably parallel folding lines ( 5   a ) and ( 5   a ′), and/or have the folding lines ( 5 ) and ( 5 ′) displaced for each other: 
   
   
       3 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact, that it besides the carvings ( 3 ) and ( 3 ′) with the regions ( 4 ) and ( 4 ′), folding lines ( 5 ) and ( 5 ′), extensions ( 7 ) and ( 7 ′) and the slits ( 8 ) and ( 8 ′), has an extra set of carvings ( 3   a ) and ( 3   a ′), regions ( 4   a ) and ( 4   a ′) etc., which preferably are of the same shape as the carving ( 3 ), the region ( 4 ) etc., but placed the wrong way around in relation to those. 
   
   
       4 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact, that there possibly only at one of the parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′) and preferably at the outer side is fastened a piece of extra material ( 9 ) for reinforcement of the package material, which has, or in connection with the package material is equipped with carvings ( 3   a ) etc. 
   
   
       5 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact that it is equipped with printed, embossed or in other ways applied references, as e.g. “to be folded up here”, “push down”, with logos and/or with other information. 
   
   
       6 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact, that it is manufactured either separately by punching out from cardboard or plastic foil to be placed at the package ( 1 ), or is integrated in and solely consisting of material from the package ( 1 ), which yet possibly is equipped with extra material ( 9 ). 
   
   
       7 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact, that it is manufactured totally or partly by thermoforming of a plastic foil, by injection molding of a plastic material or by other methods of production. 
   
   
       8 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact, that the two parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′), the carrying handle comprises of, are manufactured connected in e.g. points near the edges ( 11 ) and ( 11 ′). 
   
   
       9 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact, that it for the attachment to a package ( 1 ) of e.g. paper can be manufactured with the parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′) connected and preferably each before the folding on the same side on the top and on the bottom applied an adhesive, e.g. a melting glue. 
   
   
       10 . A carrying handle according to at least one of the other claims, characterized by the fact, that its two parts ( 2 ) and ( 2 ′) are extended and shaped coherently with top, bottom and sides, and with incisions etc. to form a complete package.