Abstract: A shrink bag having an integral carrying handle is provided that includes an extended lip bag of a heat shrinkable thermoplastic material and having a carrying hole in the lip with a continuous fused bead around its periphery, the carrying hole being spaced sufficiently below the top of the lip such that upon heat shrinking the bag about a product sealed therein enhanced thickening along the carrying-load bearing portion of the hole periphery occurs relative to the non-load bearing portion of the hole periphery. An associated method for making the bag is also provided.

Abstract: A heat sealing layer is provided for multiply tubular film preferably of the type having an inner shrink layer of an irradiatively cross-linked ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, a core barrier layer of vinylidene chloride-vinyl chloride copolymer, and an outer abuse layer of an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, the sealing layer being melt bonded onto the shrink layer and being composed of a propylene ethylene random copolymer. Heat seals formed in making bags from the improved film demonstrate enhanced high temperature strength and grease resistance. An associated method for making the tubular film is also provided.

Abstract: A wicketed bags packet is provided that comprises a stack of flattened, flexible plastic bags having two wicket holes therethrough; wicket shanks extending through said wicket holes respectively; and elongate, flexible binding members crossed in an under-to-over pattern between said shanks and forming a handgrip for said packet, each said binding member being affixed to a shank, respectively, at the rear of said stack and extending to and being removably and reclosably affixed to the other of said shanks at the front of said stack. An associated method for dispensing wicketed bags is also provided.