Claims
- 1. A clip for holding closed a folded end of a flexible bag comprising:
- a flat planar plastic body;
- a set of bag crease openings spaced across said body and each having a center line; and
- a pressure tab joined to said body in an enlarged relief opening and between said crease openings and having a center line extending generally parallel to the center lines of the bag crease openings,
- said pressure tab having laterally outwardly spaced pressure points facing laterally outwardly opposite from one another, said pressure points each joined at one side to a hook surface and terminating at the opposite side in a pinching channel, said pressure tab in an undeflected condition being uniformly flat across its width from one pressure point and pinching channel being offset laterally outwardly from the center line of the adjacent said bag crease tab, with the crease of the folded end received in said bag crease openings and bending around the pressure points in said pinching channels.
- 2. A clip for holding closed a folded end of a flexible bag, comprising:
- a flat plastic body,
- said body having a central pressure tab in an enlarged relief opening and having a movable terminal end; and
- means on said tab for applying pressure at transversely spaced locations on either side of said pressure tab,
- said means for applying pressure including sharp pressure points directed toward channels of reduced width wherein the folded end of the bag is griped at two points on opposite sides of said pressure tab within said reduced width channels, said channels having a most narrow width in an area opposite the pressure points and extending from a location adjacent the pressure points and within the half of the channel adjacent the pressure points lengthwise to the terminal end of the pressure tab so as to provide a relief area along the length of the pressure tab for receiving the bag, said means for applying pressure including bag crease-receiving openings spaced above said pressure points, each said bag crease-receiving opening defining a curved hook surface terminating upwardly at said sharp pressure point located above the curved hook surface.
- 3. The clip of claim 2, said body including a second central pressure tab, and means on said second pressure tab for applying pressure at transversely spaced location on either side of said second pressure tab, said means for applying pressure including pressure points directed outwardly toward pinching channels of reduced width wherein the folded end of the bag is gripped at four points, two sets of points on opposite sides of each of said first and second pressure tabs.
- 4. The clip of claim 2, said pressure points being on said central pressure tab and directed laterally outwardly, each said bag crease-opening each having a center that is laterally offset inwardly from said adjacent sharp pressure point and channel.
- 5. A clip for holding closed a folded end of a flexible bag, comprising:
- A flat plastic body with front and rear surfaces when in an undeflected condition having each such front and rear surface in a single flat plane,
- said body having a central pressure tab in an enlarged relief opening; and
- means on said tab for applying pressure at transversely spaced locations on either side of said pressure tabs,
- bag crease openings on opposite sides of said central pressure tab and terminating downwardly in pinching channels of reduced width, the pinching channels each having inner and outer sides, the outer side of each channel being straight and elongated,
- said means for applying pressure including sharp pressure points directed laterally outwardly toward the elongated outer sides of the pinching channels of reduced width, the inner side of each channel diverging downwardly from the outer side below the pressure points in the plane of the tab, the straight elongated outer side of each pinching channel extending above said sharp pressure point and into said bag crease opening wherein the folded end of the bag is gripped at tow points on opposite sides of said pressure tab between said sharp pressure points and the straight elongated outer sides of the pinching channels within said narrow channels, said channels having a most narrow width in an area opposite the pressure points and an area of larger width beyond and adjacent the pressure points toward the free end of the pressure tab, and said pressure tab in an undeflected condition being uniformly flat across its width from one pressure point to the other so that the pressure points lie in the same plane as the remainder of the plastic body.
- 6. The clip of claim 5, said bag crease-opening each having a center that is laterally inwardly offset from the sharp pressure point and pinching channel adjacent thereto.
- 7. The clip of claim 5, each said bag crease-opening defining a curved hook surface terminating upwardly at said pressure point above the curved hook surface.
- 8. A clip for holding closed a folded end of a flexible bag, comprising:
- a flat plastic body having forward and rearward surfaces that in an undeflected condition are each in a single flat plane;
- a set of bag crease openings spaced across said body, each opening having a center line; and
- a pressure tab joined to said body in an enlarged relief opening between said crease openings and adapted to fit over the folded end of a flexible bag, said tab having a center line generally parallel to said center lines of said bag crease openings;
- said pressure tab having laterally outwardly spaced pressure points facing laterally outwardly opposite from one another, said pressure points each joined at one side to a hook surface and terminating at the opposite side in a pinching channel, said pressure tab in an undeflected condition being uniformly flat across its width from one pressure point to the other so that the pressure points lie in the same plane as the remainder of the plastic body, each said pressure point and pinching channel being offset laterally outwardly from the center line of the adjacent bag crease openings wherein the bag folded end is adapted to fit under the tab, with the crease of the folded end received in said bag crease openings and the folded end of the bag bending around the pressure points in said pinching channels.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 07/731,746, filed Jul. 16, 1991, now abandoned.
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Continuations (1)
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