Patent 7748904 was granted and assigned to Illinois Tool Works on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Storage bags having two or more evacuable reclosable compartments. Each compartment can be opened (to allow an article or goods to be placed inside), hermetically sealed, and then evacuated without disturbing the vacuum in the other compartment(s). Each compartment has a respective zipper that provides a hermetic seal and a respective valve through which air is exhausted from the compartment interior.