Airsickness bag
A sick bag, in common parlance often referred to as a barf bag ( österreich. Speibsackerl ), is a liquid proof bag made of paper or plastic, in the vomit people. This is to prevent that their environment is drawn through odor or vomit affected.
History
Already in the early days of commercial flying bags were used in case of nausea. However, in 1949 invented Gilmore T. Schjeldahl as the first internally coated with plastic bag specifically for this purpose. These Air Sick Bags were used on flights operated by Northwest Orient Airlines for the first time.
Application and features
Sick bag belong to the seating equipment in commercial aircraft, as there are relatively many people who suffer from motion sickness when flying. Also in the hovercraft of Hoverspeed included the bags to the seat features. The bags are considered by many interested parties as a "calling card" of the airline, and to the design of the bags around a lively fan and collector scene has formed The original versions were for some time by the airline Hapag -Lloyd Express uses -. They bore the inscriptions " Thank Thanks for your criticism " and " Quite Easy here ryan " as an allusion to the competitor EasyJet and Ryanair.
The bags have a size of 250 mm × 385 mm ( National Airlines ) up to 100 mm × 161 mm × 72 mm ( Riau Airlines). The default size, which is offered by the world's largest manufacturers ELAG from the Swiss Kirchberg, is 125 mm × 237 mm × 80 mm. It thus has a volume of nearly 2.4 liters. Most bags are either made of paper with a liquid-tight coating on the inside or from plastic. The bags can either have a straight bottom ( complicated upon unfolding, but they can park itself ), an oblique ( easier to open ) or no, similar to the shape of an envelope. When opening and closing mechanisms, attaching a manual and the shape of the logo of the airline, there are many variants, such as metal clips (see illustration).
Another form is used in the emergency service. There one typically uses plastic bags, which are open at the top by a ring of plastic to facilitate the meeting and around the bag if necessary to be able to use one hand.
Others
Some airlines, such as Qantas Airways, make the bag so that it can be used in unused condition in order to deliver movies to develop a reseller. Aero Continente service phone numbers printed on their bags, Aegean Airlines use the back of the bags instead of the in-flight magazine and National Airlines make the bag so that it is usable as a shopping bag. Lufthansa used dark blue or gray sick bag with white logo.
A less well-known application of the rejected bag this is. Than a supplement to the Unix Haters Handbook, suggesting the use of the reject bag as a bookmark And politics has the barf bag for herself: The Young Liberals in the FDP distributed during the election campaign sick bag with the inscription " forward thinking instead of eat backwards".
On the occasion of the " royal wedding " of the future royal couple Kate and William souvenirs many were produced. An unexpected success, the British artist Lydia Leith with the " Royal Wedding Sick Bag " (Royal Wedding - barf bag ). This is kept in the royal colors of red and blue and shows the inscription SICKBAG ( " barf bag " ) " The bags are actually just a joke, a kind of antidote to the hysteria surrounding this wedding -. I 'm by no means an anti - monarchist " ( Lydia Leith ) It is also a word game: Under an imaged crown is " throne ( = throne ) up" to read what pronounced like " thrown up" sounds and also means " puked (off) " means.