Patent ID: 8152375

Claim:
A method for emptying a bag which has at least one cross bottom which is covered by a bottom cover sheet and has an essentially rectangular shape and which is glued together out of corner tucks angled from narrow sidewalls via folding lines and out of bottom flaps angled from wide sidewalls via folding lines so that the bottom flaps mutually overlap each other at free ends of said bottom flaps and are glued to one another thereby forming an upper and a lower bottom flap within an overlap area, comprising steps of: drawing off, starting from a narrow sidewall of said narrow sidewalls, the bottom cover sheet from the respective corner tuck and from parts of the bottom flaps which are adjoining; and tearing an upper bottom flap of the bottom flaps in the overlap area transversely to a free edge as far as the wide sidewall which is adjoining in order to separate a part; tearing a lower bottom flap of the bottom flaps in the overlap area transversely to a free edge as far as the wide side wall which is adjoining in order to separate another part; bending said separated part and said separated another part, respectively of said upper bottom flap and said lower bottom flap, together with a corner tuck by folding up about respective folding lines into a pour-out channel through which emptying of the bag contents takes place.