Abstract: A stack of bags is provided, which have been made from rectangular sections of synthetic thermoplastic film. The sections have been folded onto themselves about bottom fold lines and provided with side seam welds. Their open ends, the sections are also provided with centrally disposed, punched grip holes and with laterally disposed corner portions, which are defined by perforation lines and formed with aligned stacking or hanger holes. Only the rear wall of each bag is provided with perforation lines defining the two upper corner portions of the rear wall. The front wall of the bag is formed in its corner portions with apertures which are defined by cutouts, which are substantially congruent to and register with the perforation lines. A process of manufacturing such stack of bags and an apparatus for carrying out such process are also disclosed.

Abstract: A process of severing and subsequently stacking web section is disclosed, which in their central portions are provided with locating holes and preferably consist of double bags which have been severed from a tubular or semitubular, continuous plastic film web and are closed by hot-wire welding and have opening-defining edges. The web sections are delivered by a delivering means preferably consisting of a so-called wicketer having pairs of inner and outer wicketer arms, which are arranged in a starlike array and rotate about a horizontal axis, the web sections are deposited by said delivering means in a stacking station into a stacking conveyor, which consists of endless tensile elements, which are trained around reversing pulleys or rollers and are intermittently driven and provided with upstanding stacking pins. The stacks formed by the web sections placed on the stacking pins are intermittently carried off by an intermittent advance of the tensile elements.