Patent ID: 7104942

Claim:
A method of making side-seamed plastic produce bags, comprising the steps of: extruding a continuous tube of plastic film; flattening said tube, said tube having an upper surface, a lower surface, first and second side edges; slitting said upper surface to remove a strip of plastic material to form a slit, said slit having a first side and a second side, said first and second sides being parallel to said first and second side edges of said tube; removing said strip; forming a perforation perpendicular to said first and second side edges across an entire width of said tube; sealing said tube at a first side seam spaced from and parallel to said perforation; sealing said tube at a second side seam, said second side seam being spaced from and parallel to said first side seam; cutting said lower surface at a point below and between said first and second sides of said slit in said upper surface to form two facing bag streams.