Appeal No. 2006-1779
Application No. 10/249,810
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a reclosable packaging container.
Independent claims 1 and 10 are illustrative of the invention and read as follows:
1. A bag-shaped reclosable packaging container of plastic
film, the packaging container comprising:
a gusseted container having container walls and an
upper edge, wherein the container walls comprise a front
wall and a back wall;
a closure device of plastic material arranged at the
upper edge and extending across an entire inner width of
the basic[ ]1 container;
the closure device comprising a first closure part
and a second closure part, wherein the first closure part
has a first profiled strip provided with a first connecting
flap formed as a unitary part of the first profiled strip and
wherein the second closure part has a second profiled
strip provided with a second connecting flap formed as a
unitary part of the second profiled strip;
wherein the first connecting flap is connected to
the front wall by a first connecting seam and the second
connecting flap is connected to the back wall by a second
connecting seam;
wherein one of the first and second profiled strips
has a groove-shaped profiled receiving section and the
other one of the first and second profiled strips has a
tongue-shaped profiled engagement section;
wherein the closure device comprises a slide
engaging across the first and second profiled strips,
wherein the slide, when moved along the first and second
profiled strips, pushes the profiled strips together for
1 The “basic” container lacks antecedent basis in the claim.
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