Patent ID: 7976220

Claim:
A film bag formed from a folded film comprising: (a) a front surface; (b) a back surface; (c) a laid-in first side fold; (d) a laid-in second side fold; (e) a first longitudinal sealing seam; (f) a head sealing seam, said first longitudinal seam and said head sealing seam closing off the folded film to form the film bag having an inside surface and a first outside edge along the first side fold; (g) a re-closure strip attached on the inside surface below the head sealing seam, said re-closure strip having first and second ends releasably connecting the first side fold with the front surface and the back surface respectively; and (h) a separating line disposed above the re-closure strip; wherein said first side fold forms a re-closable chute when an upwardly projecting bag segment is cut off or torn into above the re-closure strip to remove goods contained in the bag; wherein said head sealing seam has a step shape comprising a first segment extending from a second side fold outside edge of the second side fold to the first and second ends of the re-closure strip, a second segment following the first segment in step shape, connecting the bag segment at edges of the bag segment to form a seal, and extending to the first outside edge along the first side fold; wherein the upwardly projecting bag segment is at least partially removable along the separating line disposed above the re-closure strip; and wherein the separating line comprises a combination of an embossing line formed by heat sealing and a laser seam superimposed on the embossing line.