Abstract: A stacked assembly of disposable rain hoods for displaying and dispensing from a display stand comprising a plurality of disposable rain hoods stacked together and a display holder, the display holder configured to be suspended from the display stand. Each rain hood rain hood has a suspension portion extending from a lower edge of opposing flaps of the rain hood, the suspension portion being detachably connected to the lower edge of the flaps by a frangible perforation. The stack of disposable hoods are fixedly attached to the display holder via the suspension portions of the rain hoods such that a selected disposable rain hood may be selectively detached from the suspension portion by pulling the disposable hood relative to the holder to thereby break the frangible perforation. A head stop is preferably provided for properly positioning the head of a user in the disposable rain hood.

Abstract: A packaging system includes a chain of imbricated, taped bags; and a shipping container into which the chain of imbricated, taped bags are disposed, the shipping container including a cover, the cover adapted to function, when in an extended position, as a loading platform for the chain of imbricated, taped bags. A packaging system includes a chain of imbricated, taped bags, wherein the chain of bags includes a pair of tapes, and an adhesive, such that each bag is adhesively but releasably attached to the pair of tapes; and a shipping container into which the chain of imbricated, taped bags are disposed, the shipping container including a cover, the cover adapted to function, when in an extended position, as a loading platform for the chain of imbricated, taped bags.

Abstract: A flexible packaging bag is provided for containing a plurality of articles. Each of the articles has a component which is desirably visible to a user, purchaser, or the like. The flexible packaging bag includes a window in one of its walls that has a periphery substantially framing the graphic that is desired to be seen. A visual cue can be provided in another wall such that it is visually associated with the window in order to draw the attention of the user, purchaser, or the like to the graphic of the visible article. An accessory window is also provided in the flexible packaging bag so that the number of remaining articles can be easily determined visually.

Abstract: A pack of self-opening bags with a front, rear, and co-joined side walls, with front and rear tabs extending from top edges of the front and rear walls. The tabs have a curved aperture slits therein, and the tabs are frangibly adhered together with contact adhesive. The slit has a main cut section, a first curved end section at one end, and a second curved end section at the opposite end. The first curved section has a curve that extends upwardly and inwardly from the main cut section. The second curved section has a substantially semi-circular curve that extends from the main cut section in a direction towards the bottom edge of the tab and has an end that is substantially perpendicular to and adjacent the main cut section. In one embodiment, the first curved section is dashed.

Abstract: A pack of self-opening serially-arranged plastic bags of the “star-seal” type defining eight superimposed wall layers in the bag. Mounting tabs form a part of top portions of each of the eight layers and are positioned in superimposed positions and each includes an aperture for mounting the tabs on a tab retaining device of a rack in a non-front-side-free manner. Each of the tabs includes a mechanism for rendering the tab detachable and providing a predetermined detaching strength. In one embodiment, each of the tabs are detachable from the rack and in another embodiment, each of the tabs are detachable from the bag. A frangible bond is formed between the rear layer and the front layer of each successive bag in the pack.

Abstract: Tapered bags are dispensed singly from a nested configuration. They may be made of plastic, paper, aluminum foil, or aluminum foil laminated with plastic. The bags are connected at the top by a strip that has a row of perforations between the strip and the top of each bag, the strips in turn attached to each other by conventional fasteners such as staples. The taper may be formed by folding the bags so that a dispensed bag may be unfolded to have a bottom as wide as the top. A row of closely spaced perforations along the connecting portion between any two bags allows a single outermost bag to be separated by pulling and tearing along the row of perforations.

Abstract: A pack of self-opening plastic bags adapted for use with a bagging rack. Each plastic bag preferably has an extension portion extending above an open mouth of the bag. At least one bag pack suspension aperture is formed at an upper region of the bag and is adapted for use in suspending the bag pack on a bagging rack. A carrying handle aperture is formed through an upper region of the bag pack. Areas of compression bonds are formed adjacent upper regions of the bag pack, the handle carrying apertures, and/or the suspension aperture.

Abstract: A tab for mounting a bag bundle on a retaining hook of the type having an upwardly bent hook is shown configured in a bundle of bags. The bundle of bags has at least a leading bag and a plurality of trailing bags. There is at least one tab attached to one bag wall of each bag. This tab is in alignment with like tabs from like bag walls. The tab includes a flanged aperture including at least one peak, with this peak protruding inwardly toward and to the aperture for contact with the upwardly bent hook whereby the tabs are bent out of alignment with the upwardly shaped hook.

Abstract: A series of interleaved roll mounted bags and dispensers for them are described. The bags are folded longitudinally and rolled with an upper portion of each bag located above a lower portion of a succeeding bag. The compact roll of bags is placed in any of a variety of dispensers with the upper end of the outermost bag extending outwardly from the dispenser. As the upper portion of the first bag is pulled from the roll, the bag roll will rotate, presenting the succeeding bag for dispensing after the first bag is removed. In a variant of the invention, the rolled bags are gusseted T-shirt style shopping bags. These T-shirt bags have top and bottom seals, gusseted sides, a U-shaped cutout at the top seam, an open mouth and a pair of bag handles. Variations of the dispenser include a simple tray with an open top, and various configurations involving one or more restraining members. The dispenser may be tilted to control movement of the bag roll.

Abstract: Tapered bags are dispensed singly from a roll. They may be made of plastic, paper, aluminum foil, or aluminum foil laminated with plastic. The bags are connected on the roll alternately top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom. Each bag is tapered towards its bottom such that its top-to-top connection with the next bag is wider than the bottom-to-bottom connection. The taper may be formed by folding the bags so that a dispensed bag may be unfolded to have a bottom as wide as the top. Each bottom-to-bottom connection separates the bags along a row of perforations adjacent to a sealed seam of each bag that defines the bag and insures its integrity. A row of closely spaced perforations along the connecting portion between any two bags allows a single end bag to be separated by pulling and tearing along the row of perforations.

Abstract: A produce bag has one side wall of a synthetic resin mesh material. The bag offers increased strength and reliability when used with automatic bag filling equipment. The mesh material forms a rear wall of the bag when a group of the bags are placed on wicket pins of the equipment for receiving produce. The front or forward wall is of a synthetic resin film. A reinforcing strip of synthetic resin film is formed along an upper portion of the mesh wall of the bag and spaced holes for wicket pin attachment are formed in the reinforcing strip. The synthetic resin film side wall has a side wall portion which extends below the mesh wall, with a lower fold being formed in the film wall to form a bottom of the bag. The synthetic resin film side also has an extension from the lower fold which is folded upwardly to join with and enclose a lower portion of the mesh side wall. The bottom portion of the bag is thus formed of synthetic resin film which yields to the impact of articles entering the bag to fill it.

Abstract: A pack of self-opening serially-arranged plastic bags of the “star-seal” type defining eight superimposed wall layers in the bag. Mounting tabs form a part of top portions of each of the eight layers and are positioned in superimposed positions and each includes an aperture for mounting the tabs on a tab retaining device of a rack in a non-front-side-free manner. Each of the tabs includes means for rendering the tab detachable and providing a predetermined detaching strength. In one embodiment, each of the tabs are detachable from the rack and in another embodiment, each of the tabs are detachable from the bag. A frangible bond is formed between the rear layer and the front layer of each successive bag in the pack.

Abstract: A pack of self-opening bags with a front, rear, and co-joined side walls, with front and rear tabs extending from top edges of the front and rear walls. The tabs have a curved aperture slits therein, and the tabs are frangibly adhered together with contact adhesive. The slit has a main cut section, a first curved end section at one end, and a second curved end section at the opposite end. The first curved section has a curve that extends upwardly and inwardly from the main cut section. The second curved section has a substantially semicircular curve that extends from the main cut section in a direction towards the bottom edge of the tab and has an end that is substantially perpendicular to and adjacent the main cut section. In one embodiment, the first curved section is dashed.

Abstract: Plastic, paper, aluminum foil, or aluminum foil laminated with plastic bags are dispensed, one at a time, from a bag dispenser. In a first embodiment, bags are provided in rolls, connected top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom. Each bag is tapered towards its bottom such that its top-to-top connection with the next bag is wider than the bottom-to-bottom connection. Each bottom-to-bottom connection has sealed seams, which ensure that the bags are closed at their bottoms, and a row of closely spaced perforations on a connecting portion between two seams, which allow adjacent bags to be separated by pulling and tearing along the row of perforations. In an alternate embodiment of this invention, a plurality of tapered bags is nested with one bag inside the next adjacent bag. The bags are tapered at both sides such that their bottoms are narrower than their tops. At their tops, they are attached to strips of materials that are in turn attached to each other by conventional means such as staples.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine for dispensing products, particularly popcorn and ice, in hangable paper or plastic bags and method to operate the same is disclosed. The standard paper or plastic bags having sealed bottom side and open topside are improved in so that they can be hanged and opened for filling with products. In the machine these bags are hanging in a few rows to provide vending product in several pack sizes. The hanged bags are slide in a queue manner to the loading area where the next one is straightened, filled with product, sealed, withdraw from the rack and later moved to the consumer access area by gravity. The user merely deposits a specified amount of money into the slot of the machine and thereafter receives the completely sealed bag with product.

Abstract: An adapter for use with dispensing racks having a central mounting hook and T-shirt style bags with tab openings providing a rupturable portion of the tab between the tab opening and the bag mouth is described. The adapter includes a hollow body with a cavity that is sized and shaped to fit frictionally over the central mounting hook. The body has a front surface, a top surface, a bottom surface, first and second side edges and a back surface. The back surface includes a vertically oriented tearing ridge. The adapter's cavity is fitted over the central mounting hook with the front surface facing a direction in which the support arms extend. When a pack of T-shirt style bags that have the tab opening with a rupturable portion mounted on the support arms with the tab openings of the bags placed over the adapter, the tearing ridge will serve to facilitate tearing the rupturable portion of the mounting tab as a bag is removed from the dispensing rack so that the mounting tab will remain attached to the bag.

Abstract: A belt mounted support and a group of bags for support on the belt mounted support is used in the harvest of produce. The belt mounted support includes a tube and a belt mounting loop connected to the tube. A bag supporting rod is threaded through the tube to freely rotate with two hooked bag supporting ends. A group of bags is supported on the belt mounted support, each bag formed from perforate plastic sheet. Each individual bag has a front rectilinear panel, a rear and larger rectilinear panel, and a folded gusset at a bottom of the bag folded upward between the front rectilinear panel and the rear and larger rectilinear panel. Logo on the bags is formed from an outside of the bag to be read from an inside of the bag whereby the bag is manufactured in an inverted disposition with respect to the logo. The group of bags is registered one to another at a rear panel protrusion.

Abstract: Foil bags are formed as new paper bags by fusing together two webs and tying a detachable strap which has a suspension opening to one said opening of each bag, the strap being separated by a perforation line from the respective side of the bag. A pocket is formed at the end of the bag opposite the insertion opening and can have a flap provided with an adhesive strip covered by a masking layer.

Abstract: A stack of plastic foil bags has a flap projecting beyond a filling opening on one broad side of the each bag which has a corner region delimited by perforations and formed in the corner region with at least one interlocking point for joining the bags in the stack and a stack-incorporation means separate from the interlocking point and enabling assembly of the bags into the stack.

Abstract: A stack of plastic T-shirt type bags for use with a dispenser. Each bag in the stack has a pair of handles with aligned apertures for receiving the prongs of the dispenser. The stacks are retained in alignment by a releasable flap on the periphery of the aperture in each aperture integral with the bag. The stack provides for the releasable securement of adjacent flaps together for retention of bags in overlying aligned relation in the stack. Each bag has at least one discrete region of weakness between each aperture and the inward side of the respective handle stack which can be broken for detachment of a bag from the dispenser. The stack is adapted to dispensers with prongs carrying surface projections (i.e. transverse ridges) to restrict unwanted sliding of the stack along the prongs.

Abstract: A sealable bag for storing merchandise includes a body having a pocket that is adapted to receive the merchandise. The pocket has an opening through which merchandise is placed into the pocket. The body has a pair of flanges disposed along the sides of the body. The body has a neck with the opening of the pocket being disposed at the neck of the body. The neck has a sealing area. The bag includes a pair of stress relief notches disposed in the flanges intermediate the sealing area and the opening of the pocket. The stress relief notches prevent the sealing area from becoming wrinkled while the bag is being sealed with automated equipment thus allowing a clean, unwrinkled seal to be formed in the bag.

Abstract: A sealable bag for storing merchandise includes a body having a pocket that is adapted to receive the merchandise. The pocket has an opening through which merchandise is placed into the pocket. The body has a pair of flanges disposed along the sides of the body. The body has a neck with the opening of the pocket being disposed at the neck of the body. The neck has a sealing area. The bag includes a pair of stress relief notches disposed in the flanges intermediate the sealing area and the opening of the pocket. Each stress relief notch extends into the neck of the body. The stress relief notches prevent the sealing area from becoming wrinkled while the bag is being sealed with automated equipment thus allowing a clean, unwrinkled seal to be formed in the bag.

Abstract: In the process of die-cutting bag stacks to form individual bag tops, die-cut handle apertures, or other mounting apertures, die blade configurations forming the vent lines of an array of vent apertures are also used to bond the outer surfaces of the front and rear bag walls together. The die-cutting operation selectively bonds the successive front and rear bag walls together at or adjacent the cut edges of the vent lines, thereby allowing the bags in a bag stack to subsequently self-open when dispensed.

Abstract: A notepad having rectangular leaves each having a self-adhesive marginal edge portion adhered to an underlying leaf, and a free edge opposite from the marginal edge portion, is provided in a notepad holder having a rectangular pad support surface, a pair of opposed side walls extending at right angles to the pad support surface at opposite sides of the pad support surface and an abutment for the marginal edge portions. Resilient material secured to the side walls, is in contact with and compressed by opposite sides of the notepad. At least the lowermost one of the leaves folded to form a strip-shaped bulge and a plastic strip is inserted into the bulge to increase the retention of the notepad.

Abstract: A pack of bags and a method for producing the bags made of thermoplastic foil, wherein the bags are interlocked into a pack at least in an area of an edge strip and have a perforated tear-off line formed below the interlocked area for separating the bags from the interlocked edge strip. A bag bottom is formed by a weld seam in the area opposite the edge strip wherein, for the purpose of reducing the bag width, each bag of a pack is folded around folding edges extending in a longitudinal extension of the bag and in the folded position is interlocked in an edge area with the pack. The tear line of the folded bags stamped into the pack of bags is designed in a form of sickle-shaped incisions, wherein the sickle-shaped incisions extend as far as the longitudinal sides of the pack of bags and are cut through the bags, so that the folded bags are separated at their outer lateral edges from the interlocked edge strip and connecting strips are formed between the sickle-shaped incisions.

Abstract: A ventilated plastic bag particularly adapted for carrying hot food from fast food restaurants includes the following components. Front and rear wall sections are connected together to define a closed bottom area and an open top area. A handle or handles are provided in the top area and include a cut out of the front and rear wall sections creating reduced strength regions with resulting high potential for carrying around at least part of the cut out. Closely spaced micro-perforations extend through the wall sections in at least a major portion of the plastic bag other than the reduced strength regions to provide ventilation to an interior food carrying area of the plastic bag while not further weakening the reduced strength regions and increasing the potential for tearing of the bag.

Abstract: A bag has one side wall of a synthetic resin mesh material and the other side wall of a synthetic resin film. Each of the side walls has a draw sleeve or top extending along its upper portion to receive a draw tape, draw string, draw band, draw cord or the like. The synthetic resin film side wall has a side wall portion which extends below the mesh wall, with a lower fold being formed in the film wall to form a bottom of the bag. The synthetic resin film side also has an extension from the lower fold which is folded upwardly to join with and enclose a lower portion of the mesh side wall. The bottom portion of the bag is thus formed of synthetic resin film which yields to the impact of articles entering the bag to fill it. No seam is present between the side walls of the bag in the bottom area of the bag where it would be subject to the impact of entering articles.

Abstract: A bag and system for dispensing thermoplastic bags or the like from a stack of bags. The preferred, exemplary embodiment of the present system teaches a configuration which minimizes the probability of stress fractures in the dispensed bag, and tearing associated therewith, while providing a system which leaves no “throw away” product on the rack after dispensing a bag stack, as the present system has no central tear-off tab, thereby providing a more environmentally attractive alternative to other, prior art systems. Further, the bag of the present invention also contemplates a non-removable central mouth support raised area, wherein there is provided a support cut configured to accept a rack central support piece, the cut configured to provide maximum ease in separation of the dispensed bag from the pack, with clean separation of the area above the support cut of the pack, thereby preventing tearing of the bag upon dispensing.

Abstract: A method for retaining a stack 1 of removably mutually connected pre-formed plastic bags 2, e.g. in supermarkets, comprises supporting the stack in a dispenser in a laterally (side-to-side) folded-over condition thereby presenting a spine of the fold, with the spine of the fold presented so as to be accessible to be grasped between a thumb and fingers of a person seeking to remove an individual bag 2 from the stack by pulling in direction A. The stack includes a block of lips 3, to which each bag is connected via a line of weakness 8 defining a rim 9 of the bag. A dispenser for dispensing plastic bags in accordance with this method is also described and claimed. The dispenser can suitably include a cantilevered shaft passing through the block of lips 3 via a through-hole 5.

Abstract: A bag dispenser for supporting and dispensing merchandise bags from bag packs comprises an intermediate portion and two end portions. Intermediate and end bag engaging members extend outwardly from the intermediate and end portions, respectively, and are sized for insertion through an aperture of the bag pack. The dispenser also includes a bag support member disposed below the bag engaging members for supporting the bag through a handle hole, so that the bag is supported during loading and does not tear from the header of the bag pack.

Abstract: A plastic bag dispensing apparatus is provided which comprises a bag shield for facilitating the removal of only one bag at a time from the stack and for maintaining the billboard effect of the bags in the stack. The shield may be of various sizes and have openings of various shapes.

Abstract: A produce bag has one side wall of a synthetic resin mesh material. The bag offers increased strength and reliability when used with automatic bag filling equipment. The mesh material forms a rear wall of the bag when a group of the bags are placed on wicket pins of the equipment for receiving produce. The front or forward wall is of a synthetic resin film. A reinforcing strip of synthetic resin film is formed along an upper portion of the mesh wall of the bag and spaced holes for wicket pin attachment are formed in the reinforcing strip. The synthetic resin film side wall has a side wall portion which extends below the mesh wall, with a lower fold being formed in the film wall to form a bottom of the bag. The synthetic resin film side also has an extension from the lower fold which is folded upwardly to join with and enclose a lower portion of the mesh side wall. The bottom portion of the bag is thus formed of synthetic resin film which yields to the impact of articles entering the bag to fill it.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing individual pre-formed bags from a stack of pre-formed bags has a body part and an anchor part for the stack of bags. The anchor part includes a catch for engaging the stack, whereby the stack of bags depends from the catch, and may be grasped for removal. A stack restraining member bears against the stack to restrain the stack of bags, but can be deflected against a gravitational restoring force when one side of the first bag of the stack is drawn past it to open the first bag for loading prior to removal from the stack.

Abstract: A method of forming a plurality of easy to open handle bags is provided. The method includes providing a flattened tube of thermoplastic material oriented in a generally longitudinal direction. The flattened tube has a first longitudinal side edge, a second longitudinal side edge, and a transverse heat seal. The tube has first, second, and third sections. The second section is disposed between the first and third sections. The first section is joined to the second section along a generally longitudinal first fold line. The second section is joined to the third section along a generally longitudinal second fold line. A generally rectangular hole is cut through the second section. The generally rectangular hole has a top edge and a bottom edge. The generally rectangular hole is contained transversely between the first and second fold lines.

Abstract: An apparatus for the collection and storage of pet waste, comprised of designed as an all-in-one unit for pet owners for picking up their animals waste matter. The present invention is comprised of a waste drop box, a disposable plastic bag dispenser complete with disposable plastic bags, and a reminder sign. The present invention is designed to be placed in public parks or anywhere that pet owners frequently walk their pets. Once they enter the park, the pet owner reads the reminder sign and pulls a disposable plastic bag from the disposable plastic bag dispenser.

Abstract: A pack of plastic shopping bags, each being in a rectangular configuration with a central opening below the upper edge to serve as both a means for mounting with other members of the pack on a forwardly and upwardly projecting support arm, and as a handle for the bag when removed from the support arm; and a method for making such bag packs to provide a stiff inner wall and a tacky outer wall for each bag, by co-extruding HMW HDPE of suggested ranges of density and melt index in a specified percentage of the total bag wall thickness with MLDPE of suggested ranges of density and melt index in the complementary percentage of the total wall thickness. The co-extruded tubing is flattened, subjected to corona treatment, may then receive printing and be gusseted, and thereafter cut transversely, sealed at one end of each cut blank, stacked and subjected to a die operation to cut the openings in all stacked blanks.

Abstract: A bag stack made of low density polyethylene material is disclosed. The bag stack comprises a plurality of bags where consecutive bags are adhesively connected together and where the back walls of the bags in the stack are hot welded together near the tops of the back walls of the bags. When a bag is removed from the stack, the front wall of the following bag is pulled open to permit easy removal of the next bag. A method is disclosed for forming a bag stack in accordance with the present invention.

Abstract: A polymer bag dispenser, having a header for receiving a plurality of stacked bags, the header having a leading edge. A plurality of bags is stacked and retained within the header. Each one of the bags has a back panel and a front panel wherein the back panel is longer than the front panel. Each bag includes a lip connected to the bag back panel. A line of perforations is formed in the back panel and the line of perforation is substantially adjacent to, and parallel with, the header leading edge. The line of perforations is created after a stack of bags has been formed in the header. In order to ensure clean separation of a bag from the header and a sharp and uniform edge for lips retained within the header, the line of perforations is disposed at a distance of about 1/4 inch away from the header leading edge. Each one of the panel lips is retained by the header when a bag is separated therefrom, along the line of perforations.

Abstract: A bag and dispensing system system wherein the thermoplastic bag to be dispensed may be retained in an open position, to allow for the loading thereof with contents for carrying, such as purchased goods or the like. The system is further configured such that the loaded bag, when dispensed, draws the next bag in the stack forward into an open loading position such that it is ready to be loaded with goods without further manipulation by the attendant. The preferred embodiment of the present invention teaches the utilization multi-edged penetration punch applied to the handle area of the bags to hold said handles together for handling of the bag pack, and for facilitating opening of the next bag in the stack on the rack, when a loaded bag is removed.

Abstract: A pack of merchandise bags is provided in a closed storage and dispensing unit. A portion of the unit is removable to provide a window through which the bag pack is exposed. Each bag in the pack is provided with a front and rear tab at the top, with the rear tab of a bag being attached to the front tab of the next bag. In addition, the rear tabs are formed together in a stack which is secured inside the unit, and each rear tab is attached to its respective bag through a relatively weak perforation. Thus, when a bag is withdrawn from the back pack by means of the front tab, the bag is opened, because the rear tab is retained to the stack of tabs. However, as additional force is exerted on the bag, the rear tab is torn free at the perforation. Since this rear tab is attached to the front tab of the next bag, the next bag is automatically opened.

Abstract: A plastic T-shirt bag pack in which the outer walls of adjacent bags have been corona-treated and each bag is provided with a central rack mounting tab with a pair of angled lines coming together in an apex adjacent the upper edge of the central tab, the lines being readily severable when the tab is placed on the central mounting element of a conventional rack. At their opposite ends the lines are curled inwardly toward each other to prevent their tearing from propagating down into the bag walls. This may be further prevented by providing a sinusoidal cut below the lower extremities of the angled lines. The area between the apex and upper edge of the tab is provided with a tear start so that when the bag is pulled from the rack, the area is severed to permit removal of the tab with the bag. Appropriately disposed pressure points with the corona treatment above, enable the bags of the pack to be self-opening.

Abstract: A bottom-seal bag for wickets comprises wicket holes positioned outside an interior side gusset fold when the bag is in a lay-flat condition. The wicket hoes pass through the back panel and side gussets, and in some embodiments, the front panel. Front cut lines in the front panel and front gusset portion reduce the separation force of the front panel of the bag from the wicket as compared to the back panel of the bag. The front cut lines are positioned outside the interior side gusset fold in a lay-flat condition. The cut lines may be continuous or non-continuous. The cut lines allow the front panel and front gusset portions of the bag to be easily separated from the wicket with a low pulling force to reduce operator fatigue and improve reliability of bag filling and separation operations. Additional pulling force separates the back panel and back gusset portion from the wicket, completely releasing the bag.

Abstract: A universal flexible packaging bag is provided that contains a stack of products, such as a plurality of disposable absorbent training pants, in which each product has a component, such as a graphic on a front panel of a training pant, that is to be visually perceived through a window in the bag. The bag is uniquely designed to accommodate differently designed bagging machines, such as a right-handed bagging machine and a left-handed bagging machine, so that a stack of products can be positioned in the bag such that the component is visible through the window.

Abstract: A produce bag having at least one side wall of a cross-laminated synthetic resin fabric mesh material is provided with increased strength and reliability for use with automatic bag filling equipment. The other wall is of a synthetic resin film, or of the same type of mesh material, if desired. A reinforcing strip of synthetic resin film is formed along an upper portion of a mesh material wall of the bag where spaced holes for wicket pin attachment are formed. The bag provides greater strength, uniformity, and reliability in automatic produce packing machine operations.

Abstract: A produce bag has one side wall of a cross-laminated synthetic resin fabric mesh material. The bag offers increased strength and reliability when used with automatic bag filling equipment. The mesh material forms a rear wall of the bag when a group of the bags are placed on wicket pins of the equipment for receiving produce. The front or forward wall is of a synthetic resin film. A reinforcing strip of synthetic resin film is formed along an upper portion of a mesh material wall of the bag where spaced holes for wicket pin attachment are formed. The reinforcing strip extends below the forward wall into the interior of the bag space formed between the front and rear walls. The bag provides greater strength, uniformity, and reliability in automatic produce packing machine operations.

Abstract: A plastic film bag assembly includes a recloseable plastic film bag made up of a front wall and back wall joined together and having complementary detachably attachable zipper profiles at the bag opening. A lip extends from the front wall above the zipper profiles. A header extends above the back wall above the zipper profiles. A hole is provided through the header at a distance from the header perimeter edge and defining a severable header portion between the hole and the perimeter edge. A slit or perforation may be provided at the severable header portion for controlling the strength thereof. The bags are supported on a stop member which extends through the header holes. The bags are manually individually dispensed by gripping the lip and pulling for at least partially separating the zipper profiles and, thereafter, causing the severable header portion to be severed and thereby causing the bag to be ripped off of the stop member.

Abstract: A portable bag container to hold and dispense disposable bags. The container includes a housing that has a generally hollow interior, an axle within the housing that is capable of receiving a plurality of disposable bags wrapped thereon to form a continuous roll of disposable bags, and a hanger that enables the device to releasably secure the housing to an object. The hollow interior is capable of releasably storing a plurality of disposable bags and includes an opening to allow the disposable bags to be removed from it. The hanger includes a pair of clip members connected by a bridge portion and has a pair of inwardly extending arms for attaching the clip members to the housing. The inwardly extending arms engage the ends of the axle such that the axle revolves about the arms when a disposable bag is withdrawn through the opening in the housing.

Abstract: The invention encompasses a system by which a leading T-shirt bag may be removed from a rack while initiating the opening of the bag mouth of the next ensuing T-shirt bag, but without also simultaneously pulling out and opening in succession subsequent T-shirt bags of the pack. The invention accomplishes this by modifying the form of the conventional T-shirt bag by placing a second lower slightly offset horizontal tear slot below the horizontal slot on the center mounting tab by which the tab is held on the hook of the dispensing rack. The offset slot creates a narrow bridge on one end and a wider bridge on the other end of the slot. A glue spot is provided offset from the center toward the side with the narrower bridge, between the back of the forward bag and the front of the subsequent bag. When the leading T-shirt bag is filled and subsequently pulled away, the wider bridge first ruptures and the narrower bridge, coupled with the offset glue spot, works to pull open only the next bag.

Abstract: A bag dispensing system for suspending and dispensing plastic bags such as T-shirt bags and merchandise bags comprises a bag dispenser constructed to be mounted underneath counters of checkouts. The bag dispensing system comprises relatively short bag engaging hooks which are inserted through apertures formed in T-shirt bags. The apertures are positioned to enable downward removal of the T-shirt bags from the bag dispenser by applying a small downward force. The bag dispensing system further comprises removably detachable bag supporting members to simultaneously support different sized merchandise bags. Merchandise bag engaging hooks provided on the bag dispenser, and slits formed through the merchandise bag panels and gussets, assist in the opening of the bags during dispensing.

Abstract: A pack of registering plastic T-shirt bags in which the walls of each bag are provided with registering central tabs projecting into the bag mouth, the tabs each having a rack retainer mounting orifice comprising a lower transverse cut portion extending between points spaced inwardly from the side edges of the tab with one end of the cut portion curving back and upwardly to extend toward, but terminating before reaching, the upper edge of the tab; and the other end of the cut portion also curving back upwardly and terminating in a segment of the cut extending back parallel to the lower transverse portion for a distance less than half the extent of said latter portion; thereby, the tabs of the bags may be mounted on a rack retainer by passing the retainer through the lower transverse cut portion of the mounting orifice.