SNAP!™ Zbag™
ZBag™ is SFT's improvement
of conventional side-gusseted bags.
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Zbags™ are
side gusseted bags with SNAP's proprietary technology.
Zbags can be in T-shirt style, but they're not ordinary Tshirt bags
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... Zbag's "EDGE-STRIP™" feature
makes opening First-Time-Every-Time.
How
do Zbags'edge
strips™ work?
... a cross-section shows:
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edge strips allow the front and back to be independently
grasped and sheared apart with a light tug. This disrupts
static cling, ensures reliable opening: Fuss-Free ... First-Time-Every-Time.
Zbags are a subtle change from the conventional
gusseted bags, and conversion is easy (ridiculously easy,
you can do it even without stopping the machine!).
Zbags are great for all usual
uses of side-gusseted bags.
FINISHING: they don't have to be T-shirt style -- may
be with/out handles, on rolls, stacks, wickets, etc.,
for ...
USES: utility, deli, lunch, parts, bin-liner, trash, laundry, doorknob, shopping,
produce, sandwich, pallet covers, dry-cleaning/garment bags/tube, and
clean-sleeves (for medical equipment handles where sterilisation isn't
an option -- doctors & dentists use tons of them)
PRESENTATION: they can be on rolls, wickets, racks, etc.
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Bye-bye
fussing and wasting time!
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Z-bags™ are great for thin-gauge produce
bags on a roll, because they open so easily. As T-shirt style bags
they're adopted in Norway. Z-bags are a natural
to improve the ordinary T-bags that have gained ground in Europe
and Canada as produce bags, because they work well on rolls and
the handles can be knotted so there's no need for bag ties.
Z-bags™ bags are already improving hygiene in
Europe. Z-bags in T-shirt style on rolls are in
fresh produce departments. The new reliability and ease of opening
eliminates the incentive to lick fingers, so customers have a cleaner
and more hygeinic store environment.
Manufacturing & specifying
With Z-bags™, manufacturers can eliminate
a worry about cling and cold-welding and batches then being returned
due to difficulty in opening.
User guides for Zbags: a double-headed
horizontal arrow with instruction "tug edge strips to open",
or show the gripping regions by using printed dots, or ~6mm punchouts
(or other indicia) in the projecting pleat near the mouth. These
in the context of the Zbag™ are a trademark
of Snap Film Technologies. Users are free to use poster material
on this site to help acquaint employees & customers with the SNAP!™ features.
These bags require no special machinery or materials to make! In
standard production machinery, the gusset guides are adjustable
to allow the operator to make the gussets as perfectly even as
possible, but here we have shown that there is an advantage to
'going the other way'. Even operators who have never seen or heard
of the Snap!™ architecture will, once they see it,
quickly figure out how to produce it. All you do is adjust the
gusset guides so the diagonally opposite gussets are usefully (grippably)
larger (no good if they are both larger on the same side, it must
be 'diagonal').
For rolls to be used vertically, size the core so that it reaches
the roll edge and will support the roll when on a vertical dispenser
spike.
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