Flexible container with handle for resting on a flat surface

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8840305
APP PUB NO 20130121622A1
SERIAL NO

13731446

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A flexible container includes a panel structure of flexible web material, including panels that are adjoined to define a pouch. The pouch has a top opening with a fitment, and is expandable from a collapsed, unfilled condition to an expanded, filled condition. When the pouch is in the filled condition and resting on a flat surface, the panel structure supports the pouch in an upright orientation in which the fitment opening faces upward. The panel structure also provides the pouch with a flat footprint upon which the pouch overlies the flat surface. The flat footprint is defined in part by the pouch and in part by the lower handgrip in a condition folded beneath the pouch.

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SMART BOTTLE INCNORTH CAROLINA NORTH CAROLINA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Schuldt, Frederick W Weaverville, US 1 14
Wilkes, Kenneth R Asheville, US 48 648

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