Post-applied zipper base with grip strip
CA 2061481 C · Owner: Zip-Pak, Inc. · Inventors: Weeks, Ronald J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A method and apparatus for producing an improved easy-open container wherein a continuous base layer is integrally extruded with means for gripping thereon and applied to existing film to seal perforated lines of tearing therein. Interlocking zipper elements are contemporaneously extruded and fused to the continuous base layer. Die clutter is reduced and the method produces a flexible container having desirable sealing opening and, gripping features.
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- Filed February 19, 1992 and granted December 1, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 19, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 19, 2014.
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