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Insulated lunch bag

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CA1131595A
CA1131595A CA346,893A CA346893A CA1131595A CA 1131595 A CA1131595 A CA 1131595A CA 346893 A CA346893 A CA 346893A CA 1131595 A CA1131595 A CA 1131595A
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liner
wall
lunch
upper portion
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June H. Campbell
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45CPURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C11/00Receptacles for purposes not provided for in groups A45C1/00-A45C9/00
    • A45C11/20Lunch or picnic boxes or the like

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Abstract

A B S T R A C T

A flexible insulated lunch bag adapted for transportation and storage of food comprises a liner disposed in the interior thereof, means for opening and closing the bag attached near its top and a carrying means affixed to the upper portion of the bag. When empty, the bag can be folded or rolled up to a fraction of its overall length.

Description

INSULATED L~NCH BAG
This invention relates generally to portable containers for food and more particularly to an inPulated, pliable lunch bag adapted for carrying food and driDks while protecti~g them from deterioration.
Portable containers for carrying food have been kno~n for many years. The most popular containerg still widely in use today are lunch boxes. Containers of thiB type, while some~hat satisfactory in some instances, are characteriz~d by a disadvantage in that their body is of a rigid metallic or plastic construction and in that the food items placed thQrein are fro~uently suscept$ble to deterioration or soft drink6 become undesirably warm in a relatively short period o~ time, especially in hot weather. Other types of food containers in form of ba8s or the like receptacles constructed from fabric or pla~tic material~ ~hich con~titute the closest prior art of which I am aware have been described in U. S. patent No. 2,289,254 to ~agles and No. 2,667,198 to Rlein. However, such bags ha~e the common disad~antage of lacking pliability nece6sary for being folded or rolled up when empty. Consequently, their overall ~ize remains Rub~tantially the same after the food items have been removed which render6 such bag~ somewhat cumber60me and inconvenient as they require to be ha~d-carried in empty condition. Moreover, the constructional features of ~uch bags are di6tinct from those of the ~unch bag of this invention.
Accordingly, an important object of this invention i8 to provide an improved~ lightweight, ile~ible, insulated lunch bag, the overall size of ~hich may be reduced to about one third when empty.
Another object of the invention is to pro~ide a low cost, insulated bag for transportation and temporary storage o~ food without spo$1age thereof when the bag contains an ice pack and i~
clo~ed to keep th~ food item~ cool.
In acoordance with the present invention, these i~ provided a durable, $1exible, i~sulated lunch bag compri~ing a top, a front wall, a rear wall~ a bottom wall and a pair of ~ide walls. Each wall compri6es a~ outer wall and an inner wall with a layer of an i~sulati~g material being disposed therebetueen. The ~ner walls include a liner which i8 di~posed in the interior of t~e bag. Th~
bag ~urther co~pri~e~ a mean~ for opening and closing thereof which iB po~itioned adiacent the top of ~he bag and a carrying means af$ixed to the upper portion of the bag. After the food contents have ~een removed, the bag may be folded on itself or rolled up in ~ch a manner that itB overall length may be reduced to one third.

113~595 ~he invention will beco~e more fully apparent as the description proceeds in the ~pecification and the accompanying drawings.
In the accompanying drawing6:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one form of the lunch bag;
FIG. 2 is a cros~-sectional view of the lunch bag taken in the plane 2 - 2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a perspecti~e ~iew of the lunch bag of FIG. 1 folded when empty;
FIG. 4 is a perspecti~e view of another form of the lunah bag in open to~ position ~ith the carrying mean~ fastened to the front ~nd rear walls;
FIG. 5 i6 a cross-sectional view o$ the lunch bag of FIG. 4 in open top positio~ with one end of the carrying means being u~attached to the front wall;
FIG. 6 i~ a fragmentary enlarged cross-sectional view of the upper portion of the front wall of FIG~ 5 6howing the various elements thereof in detail; and FIG. 7 i~ a side view of the empty lunch bag of FIG~ 4 in rolled up position.
Like reference characters indicate corresponding elements throu~hout the views of the drawings.
As illustrated in FIGs. 1 to 3, a ~oldable, rlexible, in~ulated double-walled lunch bag 10 with an inner liner 12 i~ filled with an in~ulating material 14 disposed between the outer walls of the bag 10 and the liner 12 to protect the food contènts placed in the bag from exchange with the conditions of extèrnal en~ironment.
The insulating material 14 suitable for use in making the bag of thi~ iuvention may be formed of a li~htweight polymeric material, such a~ poly~tyrene or polyurethane foam.
Whi~e the liner 12 may be con~tituted by the inner wall itself of bag 10, it may al~o be secured either adhesively or by stitching or by a~y other suitable method to all the in~er ~ide wall8 and the bottom wall of the lu~ch bag9 thereby forming a unitary compo~ite inner wall of bag 10. ~he outer walls of bag 10 are formed o~ a 6uitable cloth or plastic material, while liner 12 is made of a waterproof material, ~uch a6 a flexible pla~tic film or a rubber-treated fabric, and compri~es ~ strap 20 which is attached to the lower inner surfRee of bag 10 for removable insertion of a frozen ice pack 22 between strap 20 ~nd the inner surface of liner 12 to ~eep the food contents in the bag coo~.
~he lunch bag 10 is provided with carrying means in form of a p~ir of flexible handles 16 ~nd 18 attached to the upper portion thereof to permit con~enient carrying of the bag. The means for opening and closing bag 10 may be a zipper 24 di~poset Qcross the top of the bag for removable placing of food item~ and of the ice pack 22 therein. When bag 10 i6 cloged by mean~ of zipper 24, a ~ubstantially air-tight seal i8 formed, whereby a refrigerating temperature may maintained in~ide the bag in the presence of the inserted ice pack 22. If deaired, hot food items may also be trans-ported in the insulated bag 10 without the use of ice pack therein.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIGs. 4 to 7, the lunch bag 10' comprise~ a few modifications, the de~cription of which follow6.
In accordance with thia embodiment, the lunch bag 10' ia of the open-top type construction a~d compri~es a front wall 26~ a rear wall 28, a bottom wall ~0 and a pair of side walls ~2. Each of these walls comprises an outer wall 34 and an inner wall 36~ all the walls being made o~ a suitable flexible fabric or plastic material, the outer walls of bag 10~ being prefer~bly waterproof or water repellent~
A layer of a suitable insulating material 14' formed of a light-weight poly~eric material, examples of which are given herei~abo~e, is dispo~ed substantially e~enly between outer walls 34 and inner walls 36 filling the space therebetween. A ~aterproo~ liner 38 made preferably o~ a ~lexible plaetic film, such as ~inyl, or a rubberized lightweight cloth or the like, in form of a ~ac, is disposed in the interior of bag 10' with the narrow upper portion thereof being attached by stitching adjacent the top of ~ag 10', the unattached major portion of liner 38 being disposed adjacent the inner walls of the bag. The liner 38 may ~e provided with a pocket 40 extendin~
subata~tially horizontally near the bottom of bag 10~, afi best shown in FIG 5, for remo~able in6ertion of a frozen ice pack therein.
The lunch bag 10' i~ further prorided with a mean6 ~or opening and clo~ing it6 top. Such ~ean6 comprise~ a pliable adhesive tape fastener 42 which i~ ~ecured ~y 6titching or adhe~ively to bag 10' around the upper periphery thereof to at least one side and rear wall, as shown in FIG. 4. The exposed surface of tape ~a~tener 42 i8 detachably adherent to the fast~ner's own surface di~posed on the opposite wall o~ bag 10' thereby closing the bag. Whe~ the opposite adhesi~e sur~aces of tape ~a~tener 42 are in engaging contact~ a substantially air-tight fieal ia produced. One type of a tape ~astener which has been found satisfactory i~ an adhe~iYe tape ~old under the trademark "Velcro" and described in U. S. patent No. 3~414~03~. Other similar adhesive tapes capable of formi~g a strong but detachable bond therebetween are likewi~e aati~factory.

As a carrying means, lunch bag 10~ comprises a fle~ible carr~ing strap 44 which may be formed of the ~a~e material as the outer wall 34 of the bag. The ~trap 44 i6 a$fixed by stitching or ~ewing one end thereof to the upper portion of rear wall 28 of ba~ 10~, the other free end of strap 44 being detachably ~astened to the upper portion of front wall 26 by conventional cooperating 6naps 46 or the like fa~teners. The carryin~ strap 44 is preferably attached to the bag 6ubstantially in the center of it~ wallg 26 and 28 in the upper portions thereof. As illustrated in FIG. 5, a male element 48 of snap 46 which i~ affixed near the end portion of ~trap 44 i8 8eparably engageable with the cooperating female element 50 of 6nap 46~ thereby forming a carrying handle when the two element6 are joined together.
The second ~emale elem~nt 50 i~ secured to strap 44 adjacent the other end thereof ~or the purpose of engaging it with ~ale element 48 of ~nap 46 when the empty bag 10~ i8 rolled up or folded on itself, whereby the o~erall length o~ bag 10' is reduced to approximately one third thereof depending on the pliability of the material used for making the walla. A~ ~hown in FIG. 7, strap 44 surrouds bag 10' and iR ~astened thereto around it. In lieu o$ a single strap with snaps, a pair of $1exible ~traps or handles may be attached to the lunch bag in a similar manner a~ illustrated in FIG. 1.
From the foregoing, it will ~e understood that this invention provides a highly sati6factory bag ~or carrying lunch or the like food items by school children, ~tudents, teachers, 6ecretarie~ an~
other working peoplo who wish to consume their home prepared food in school or other places o~ wor~. The main feature of the present invent~on i8 the provision of a durable, lightweight lunch bag, the pliability of which, when empt~, permits a reduction of its size to but a fraction of its length thus making it most convenient to place it in the rolled up or folded form in a purse or a satchel or the like thereby obviating the neces~ity of carrying an additional ob~oct. Another important feature of this invention i8 that food may be stored in the lunch bag for several hours without deterioration, particularly in h~t weather due to refrigerating effect imparted by the frozen ice p~ck in~erted therein.
Various chan~es in the form~ of this inYention her~in de~cribed and i~lustrated may be made without dep~rting from the spirit of the inve~tion and the ~cope of the claims which follow.

Claims (8)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY

OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A durable, flexible insulated lunch bag comprising a top, a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom wall, a pair or side walls, each of said walls comprising an outer wall and an inner wall, a layer of an insulating material disposed substantially evenly between the outer and inner walls, said inner wall is including a liner disposed in the interior of said bag, means for opening and closing the bag adjacent the top thereof, and a carrying means affixed to the upper portion of said bag, wherein said bag is of the open top type construction and said means for opening and closing the bag comprises a pliable adhesive tape fastener secured to said bag around the periphery thereof to at least one side and rear wall and being detachably adherent to the fastener disposed on the opposite wall of said bag, and wherein the overall length of said bag is reducible to about one third when the empty bag is folded on itself.
2. The lunch bag of claim 1, wherein said liner is waterproof and flexible and wherein the narrow upper portion of said liner is attached to said bag adjacent the top thereof, the unattached major portion of said liner being disposed adjacent said inner walls of said bag.
3. The lunch bag of claim 2, wherein said liner includes a pocket, a frozen ice pack removably inserted in said pocket and wherein said pocket extends substantially horizontally adjacent the bottom of said bag.
4. The lunch bag of claim 1, wherein said carrying means comprises a flexible carrying strap, one end thereof being attached to the upper portion of said rear wall, the other end thereof being detachably fastened to the upper portion of said front wall.
5. The lunch bag of claim 4, wherein each end of said carrying strap is disposed substantially in the center of said front and rear wall.
6. The bag of claim 4, wherein the overall length of said bag is reducible to about one third when said bag is empty and rolled up with said carrying strap being fastened around said bag by a pair of cooperating male and female snap elements.
7. The lunch bag of claim 1, wherein said carrying means comprises a pair of flexible handles.
8. The lunch bag of claim 1, wherein said liner is waterproof and flexible, wherein the narrow upper portion of said liner is attached to said bag adjacent the top thereof, the unattached major portion of said bag adjacent the top thereof, the unattached major portion of said liner being disposed adjacent said inner walls of said bag;
wherein said liner includes a pocket, a frozen ice pack removably inserted in said pocket and extending substantially horizontally adjacent the bottom of said bag; wherein said carrying means is a flexible carrying strap, one end thereof being attached to the upper portion of said rear wall, the other end thereof being detachably fastened to the upper portion of said front wall, each end of said carrying strap being disposed in the center of said front and rear wall; and wherein the overall length of said bag is reducible to about one third when said bag is empty and rolled up with said carrying strap being fastened around said bag by a pair of cooperating male and female snap elements.
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