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US2951273A
US2951273A US710582A US71058258A US2951273A US 2951273 A US2951273 A US 2951273A US 710582 A US710582 A US 710582A US 71058258 A US71058258 A US 71058258A US 2951273 A US2951273 A US 2951273A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/1616—Elements constricting the neck of the bag
    • B65D33/1633—Closed rings maintaining the constricted neck around an element, e.g. used as a handle or suspension means, with the element integral or non-integral with the ring
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the invention relates to closure means for bags, more
  • the usual means adopted for closing bags, especially when they are made of plastic, is to tie them together with string or to use a clamp to provide a fairly airtight seal.
  • closure means made of a plastic are already commercially available. circle the gathered and compressed mouth of the bag and to hold it together by friction.
  • Such closure means either take the form of a clasp placed around the mouth of the bag and secured by means of a clip in the manner of a hair clip held by a press stud or alternatively they consist of a sleeve with a loop which can be pulled into the sleeve.
  • Other known devices have the shape of a lead seal with a sliding clip. In these devices a cord is also drawn through the slot in the seal in a manner generally known and this i is intended to keep the bag closed. The cord can be frictionally wedged in the seal by means of the clip.
  • closure means are comparatively complicated in construction and insofar as they make use of special cords they are open to the objection that the cord is liable to wear and that the round smooth outside surface of the cord is not particularly adapted to be frictionally retained in a clip or the like.
  • a loop is provided for drawing the gathered mouth of the bag into a sleeve.
  • the invention avoids the dis advantages that have been described in that the noose and the sleeve are of integral construction, preferably consisting of an injection moulded piece of plastic, and the closure means may at the same time serve as the carrier. Since the loop and the sleeve both consist of the same material frictional grip can be improved by giving the sleeve an approximately rectangular section which conforms with the flat strip-like band which forms the loop.
  • the shape of the loop is arbitrary it is preferred to provide it with retaining teeth which can be pulled out of the top of the sleeve as the mouth of the bag is drawn into the sleeve, and which will then locate on the top edge of the sleeve in such a way that the upper end of the loop must be squeezed together and the teeth released before the loop and the bag can again be extracted.
  • the form of construction proposed by the present invention also permits the loop to be provided with holes for securing it by a seal such as for example a lead seal; the wire or cord attached to the latter being threaded through the said holes.
  • a seal such as for example a lead seal
  • the bag to be employed for the sale of packed goods and the bag to be sealed in a manner that will prevent tampering by unauthorized persons.
  • the latter may be provided with transverse rib members. According to the invention these ribs may take the form of fiat fins which project into the interior of the sleeve.
  • the bag is drawn into the sleeve these fins are inwardly deflected and resist unwanted withdrawal of the bag. They will not resume their normal position until the top of the loop has been first squeezed together and the loop and bag thrust back into the top and extracted from the
  • the frictional engagement of the bag by the sleeve can be further improved if the lower end of the sleeve is arranged to be fairly rigid and the upper wall portions thin. If this is done the thick lump formed by the compressed mouth of the bag inside the loop will cause the upper end of the sleeve to bulge out- The latter are adapted to enwards when the loop has been drawn far enough into the sleeve. A certain amount of force will then be required, even after the top of the loop has been squeezed together, to pull the mouth of the bag out through the stiffer bottom part of the sleeve.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a bag closed with closure means according to the invention
  • Figure 2 illustrates the manner of drawing the mouth of the bag into the closure means
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the closure flattened out
  • Figure 4 illustrates the closure means with the bag closed
  • Figures 5 and 6 are side views of the sleeve of the closure means, the latter in section;
  • Figures 7 and 8 are end views of the sleeve of the closure means the latter in section.
  • a band 4 Integral with this lower edge 3 is a band 4 which forms a loop, the said band being divided by rectangular slots 5 and .6 into two thin edge strips 7 and 8 (Fig. 3).
  • the band 4 also serves as a carrier means.
  • the extreme ends of the two upper edge strips 8 are cross connected at 9 to form the loop tln'ough which, as shown in Fig. 2, the gathered end 10 of the bag 1 is pushed as indicated by the arrow.
  • the strips 8 are provided with teeth 11 and 12. According to the thickness of the mouth of the bag in the loop, the latter is drawn into the sleeve until either the teeth 11 or the teeth 12 appear at the top of the sleeve.
  • the teeth 12 are also provided with holes 13 for attachment of a seal when the loop has been pulled into the sleeve as far as required. As shown in Fig. 4 the teeth 12 bear against the top edges 14 of the sleeve 2.
  • Fig. 6 represents a section through the wider side of the sleeve 2 corresponding with the outside view shown in Fig. 5, that the 1nner surface of the wider side of the sleeve is provided with rib members 15 which serve to improve the frictional grip of the sleeve on the mouth of the bag.
  • Fig. 7 shows a view of the Fig. 8 being the corresponding sectional view.
  • the ribs 15 are comparatively long flat fins which project into the interior. These fins bend upwards when the mouth of the bag is drawn into the sleeve and therefore resist its extraction.
  • Fig. 8 also discloses that the wider sides of the sleeve, which are here shown in section, are thickened towards their lower edges, whereas they have thinner sections 16 at the top. These thinner wall sections slightly bulge when the bag has been drawn into the sleeve and therefore assist in preventing it from being inadvertently pulled out.
  • a combined attaching and carrying device for an article comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through, which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end accompanying means when opened narrower side of the sleeve,
  • said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
  • a combined attaching and carrying device for an article comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said grippingloop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop With the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the grip
  • elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion 01 said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it, said releasable locking means comprising teeth on said loop-shaped end portion and extending edges on said elongated tubular sleeve adapted to engage said teeth; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the
  • a combined attaching and carrying device for an article comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting pass ing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion,,said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it, said releasable locking means comprising teeth on said
  • a combined attaching and carrying device for an article comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loopshaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof; permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it and having inward projections and portions of reduced thickness so as to permit said gripping loop with the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into the said sleeve and the part of the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to be gripped by said
  • a combined attaching and carrying device for an article comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passsing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it and having inward projections and portions of reduced thickness so as to permit said gripping loop with the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into the said sleeve and the part of the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to
  • a combined attaching and carrying device for a bag having a pliable neck comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which the neck of the bag can be threaded tobe gripped and closed thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of the bag through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loopshaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the neck of the bag to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping
  • a combined attaching and carrying device for an article comprising, in combination, a gripping loop adapted to hold a part of the article and having a loop-shaped end portion through which said part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve formed with an opening therethrough adapted to permit said loop-shaped end portion together with said part of the article engaged by the said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into said opening and having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loopshaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it and being shaped so as to grip said part of the article between

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Sept. 6, 1960 H. BRENKER CLOSURE MEANS FOR BAGS Filed Jan 22, 1959 particularly for plastic bags.
Patented Sept. a, race ill CLOSURE MEANS FOR BAGS Hans Brenker, Braunschweig, Germany, assignor to Neoplastik Braunschweiger Kunststoifwerk G.m.b.H.
Filed Jan. 22, 1958, Ser. No. 710,582 Claims priority, application Germany July 1, 1957 8 Claims. (Cl. 24-305) The invention relates to closure means for bags, more The usual means adopted for closing bags, especially when they are made of plastic, is to tie them together with string or to use a clamp to provide a fairly airtight seal. Apart from ordinary strings or metal clips closure means made of a plastic are already commercially available. circle the gathered and compressed mouth of the bag and to hold it together by friction. Such closure means either take the form of a clasp placed around the mouth of the bag and secured by means of a clip in the manner of a hair clip held by a press stud or alternatively they consist of a sleeve with a loop which can be pulled into the sleeve. Other known devices have the shape of a lead seal with a sliding clip. In these devices a cord is also drawn through the slot in the seal in a manner generally known and this i is intended to keep the bag closed. The cord can be frictionally wedged in the seal by means of the clip. These closure means are comparatively complicated in construction and insofar as they make use of special cords they are open to the objection that the cord is liable to wear and that the round smooth outside surface of the cord is not particularly adapted to be frictionally retained in a clip or the like.
In the closure means proposed by the present invention a loop is provided for drawing the gathered mouth of the bag into a sleeve. However, the invention avoids the dis advantages that have been described in that the noose and the sleeve are of integral construction, preferably consisting of an injection moulded piece of plastic, and the closure means may at the same time serve as the carrier. Since the loop and the sleeve both consist of the same material frictional grip can be improved by giving the sleeve an approximately rectangular section which conforms with the flat strip-like band which forms the loop.
A flat sleeve and a flat loop frictionally engage much better than a round section cord in a sleeve.
Since the shape of the loop is arbitrary it is preferred to provide it with retaining teeth which can be pulled out of the top of the sleeve as the mouth of the bag is drawn into the sleeve, and which will then locate on the top edge of the sleeve in such a way that the upper end of the loop must be squeezed together and the teeth released before the loop and the bag can again be extracted.
The form of construction proposed by the present invention also permits the loop to be provided with holes for securing it by a seal such as for example a lead seal; the wire or cord attached to the latter being threaded through the said holes. This permits the bag to be employed for the sale of packed goods and the bag to be sealed in a manner that will prevent tampering by unauthorized persons. To increase the frictional engagement between the mouth of the bag in the loop and the inside walls of the sleeve, the latter may be provided with transverse rib members. According to the invention these ribs may take the form of fiat fins which project into the interior of the sleeve. When the loop with the mouth of bottom of the sleeve.
the bag is drawn into the sleeve these fins are inwardly deflected and resist unwanted withdrawal of the bag. They will not resume their normal position until the top of the loop has been first squeezed together and the loop and bag thrust back into the top and extracted from the The frictional engagement of the bag by the sleeve can be further improved if the lower end of the sleeve is arranged to be fairly rigid and the upper wall portions thin. If this is done the thick lump formed by the compressed mouth of the bag inside the loop will cause the upper end of the sleeve to bulge out- The latter are adapted to enwards when the loop has been drawn far enough into the sleeve. A certain amount of force will then be required, even after the top of the loop has been squeezed together, to pull the mouth of the bag out through the stiffer bottom part of the sleeve.
Reference will now be made tothe drawing in which:
Figure 1 illustrates a bag closed with closure means according to the invention;
Figure 2 illustrates the manner of drawing the mouth of the bag into the closure means;
Figure 3 illustrates the closure flattened out;
Figure 4 illustrates the closure means with the bag closed;
Figures 5 and 6 are side views of the sleeve of the closure means, the latter in section;
Figures 7 and 8 are end views of the sleeve of the closure means the latter in section.
In the drawings it is desired to close a bag 1 by a sleeve 2 having a reinforced lower edge 3. Integral with this lower edge 3 is a band 4 which forms a loop, the said band being divided by rectangular slots 5 and .6 into two thin edge strips 7 and 8 (Fig. 3). The band 4 also serves as a carrier means. The extreme ends of the two upper edge strips 8 are cross connected at 9 to form the loop tln'ough which, as shown in Fig. 2, the gathered end 10 of the bag 1 is pushed as indicated by the arrow. The strips 8 are provided with teeth 11 and 12. According to the thickness of the mouth of the bag in the loop, the latter is drawn into the sleeve until either the teeth 11 or the teeth 12 appear at the top of the sleeve. The teeth 12 are also provided with holes 13 for attachment of a seal when the loop has been pulled into the sleeve as far as required. As shown in Fig. 4 the teeth 12 bear against the top edges 14 of the sleeve 2.
It Will be seen by reference to Fig. 6 which represents a section through the wider side of the sleeve 2 corresponding with the outside view shown in Fig. 5, that the 1nner surface of the wider side of the sleeve is provided with rib members 15 which serve to improve the frictional grip of the sleeve on the mouth of the bag.
Fig. 7 shows a view of the Fig. 8 being the corresponding sectional view. As will be seen the ribs 15 are comparatively long flat fins which project into the interior. These fins bend upwards when the mouth of the bag is drawn into the sleeve and therefore resist its extraction. Fig. 8 also discloses that the wider sides of the sleeve, which are here shown in section, are thickened towards their lower edges, whereas they have thinner sections 16 at the top. These thinner wall sections slightly bulge when the bag has been drawn into the sleeve and therefore assist in preventing it from being inadvertently pulled out.
I claim:
1. A combined attaching and carrying device for an article, said device comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through, which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end accompanying means when opened narrower side of the sleeve,
portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
2. A combined attaching and carrying device for an article, said device comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said grippingloop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop With the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end formed integrally with the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an
elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion 01 said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it, said releasable locking means comprising teeth on said loop-shaped end portion and extending edges on said elongated tubular sleeve adapted to engage said teeth; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
4. A combined attaching and carrying device for an article, said device comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting pass ing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion,,said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it, said releasable locking means comprising teeth on said loop-shaped end portion and extending edges on said elongated tubular sleeve adapted to engage said teeth, said teeth having holes therein for sealing purposes; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
5. A combined attaching and carrying device for an article, said device comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loopshaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof; permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it and having inward projections and portions of reduced thickness so as to permit said gripping loop with the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into the said sleeve and the part of the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to be gripped by said inward projections and portions of reduced thickness; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
6. A combined attaching and carrying device for an article, said devicecomprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passsing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it and having inward projections and portions of reduced thickness so as to permit said gripping loop with the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into the said sleeve and the part of the article gripped by the said loop-shaped end portion to be gripped by said inward projections and portions of reduced thickness; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it, said releasable locking means comprising teeth on said loop-shaped end portion and cooperating edges on said elongated tubular sleeve; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
7. A combined attaching and carrying device for a bag having a pliable neck, said device comprising, in combination, a gripping loop having a loop-shaped end portion through which the neck of the bag can be threaded tobe gripped and closed thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of the bag through said projecting loop-shaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loopshaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the neck of the bag to be drawn into it; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle.
8. A combined attaching and carrying device for an article, said device comprising, in combination, a gripping loop adapted to hold a part of the article and having a loop-shaped end portion through which said part of the article can be threaded to be gripped thereby; an elongated tubular sleeve formed with an opening therethrough adapted to permit said loop-shaped end portion together with said part of the article engaged by the said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into said opening and having a length smaller than the length of said gripping loop so that said loop-shaped end portion of said gripping loop projects from one end of said sleeve when said gripping loop is introduced into said sleeve through the other end thereof, permitting passing of an article to be gripped through said projecting loopshaped end portion, said sleeve having an inner size exceeding in at least one direction the corresponding size of said loop-shaped end portion so as to permit the gripping loop with the article gripped by said loop-shaped end portion to be drawn into it and being shaped so as to grip said part of the article between said loop-shaped end portion and the inner wall of the said sleeve; releasable locking means on the gripping loop and the sleeve for retaining the gripping loop in said elongated tubular sleeve when drawn into it; and a flexible elongated carrying member having one end connected to the gripping loop and the other end secured to the exterior of the sleeve so as to form a closed carrying handle, the portion of said carrying member longitudinally adjacent said one end being adapted to longitudinally pass through said opening in said sleeve.
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