Patent ID: 6866620

Claim:
A process far making successive product bags on an automated production line, comprising the stops of: a) providing a mesh sheet and first and second plastic sheets on rolls, unwinding the mesh sheet and the first and second plastic sheets from the rolls, b) while the sheets are advanced through the production line, folding one longitudinal edge portion of the second plastic sheet over the mesh sheet such that the second plastic sheet and the mesh sheet form opposed facing sides of a bag having a seamless bottom formed by said longitudinal edge portion of said second plastic sheet, c) sealing said one edge portion of said second plastic sheet to one longitudinal side of said mesh sheet and said first plastic sheet to an opposed longitudinal side of said mesh sheet to form a master web, and d) sealing and outting said master web along longitudinally spaced-apart lines transverse to a direction of travel of said sheets to thereby produce a succession of individual bags having one panel at least partly made of a mesh material reinforced at a mouth of the bags by a reinforcement strip formed by said first plastic sheet.