Patent ID: 6446811
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A pack of self-opening serially-arranged plastic bags particularly suited for use in packaging grocery produce and adapted for being suspended in desired lengths from a rack for being serially self-opened and removed from said rack, each of said bags comprising:integrally formed front and rear walls and gussetted side walls extending inwardly toward each other to terminate in close proximity to each other, said walls having top portions defining an open mouth, and said front and rear walls and said gussetted side walls being further folded over onto each other along a longitudinal axis of said bag to define eight superimposed wall layers in said bag having a front layer, a rear layer and six intermediate layers; a seal of the star seal type securing the bottoms of said eight superimposed wall layers together to close the bottom of said bag; mounting tabs forming a part of said top portion of each of said eight wall layers portion and being in superimposed positions and each including an aperture adapted for mounting said tabs on a tab retaining device of the rack in a non-front-side-free manner, each of said tabs including means rendering said tab detachable and providing a predetermined detaching strength; and a frangible bond between said rear layer and said front layer of each successive bag in said pack, said bond having a predetermined strength (1)which is greater than said predetermined detaching strength of two of said tabs and (2) which is weaker than the predetermined detaching strength of the remaining six tabs to allow a leading bag of said pack, when pulled by a user for removal, to disengage from said pack, while before disengagement pulling a succeeding bag in the pack to cause detaching of the two leading of said tabs for self-opening of said succeeding bag.