Abstract: A stack of flexible packaging bags, such as used in the meat packing industry in conjunction with automatic and semiautomatic packaging apparatus, made by assembling a multiplicity of flattened stacked wicket-holed bags on a flexible tubing binding threaded through the bag wicket holes to define a severable loop handle element, shank elements passing through the wicket holes in the stacked bags, and shank portion extensions adapted to secure the shank portions of the binding to wicket mounting means and to mount bag stack securing means.

Abstract: A stack of flexible packaging bags, such as used in the meat packing industry in conjunction with automatic and semiautomatic packaging apparatus, made by assembling a multiplicity of flattened stacked wicket-holed bags on a flexible tubing binding threaded through the bag wicket holes to define a severable loop handle element, shank elements passing through the wicket holes in the stacked bags, and shank portion extensions adapted to secure the shank portions of the binding to wicket mounting means and to mount bag stack securing means.

Abstract: A self-sustaining length of shirred tubular food casing comprising a stick of shirred and compressed tubular food casing having a bore extending therethrough and a sheathing material closely drawn about the periphery of said stick of shirred food casing and down about at least a portion of the terminal pleats at each end thereof and terminating at each end thereof in a reinforced aperture aligned with the bore through said shirred casing stick, said sheathing material totally retaining said stick of shirred food casing therein and forming a self-sustaining length thereof that will not be prematurely deshirred.