Patent ID: 7395646

Claim:
An article packaging device comprising: an inlet end, an outlet end, a body formed by an inner core having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and a passageway therebetween, a casing comprising a casing wall around the body, the casing joined to the body with a storage space between them, and a tubular sheet within the storage space, the tubular sheet dispensable through a dispensing opening between the body and the casing and into the inlet opening of the inner core and wherein said tubular sheet comprises an adhesive on at least a portion of said tubular sheet, wherein the casing or the storage space comprises a slot, wherein said slot is adapted for compressively gathering said tubular sheet as the sheet is inserted and moved through said slot, whereby the compressive gathering of said tubular sheet causes said adhesive to bond said tubular sheet to itself along its gathered portions in order to close and seal a first packaged article and form a new gathered leading edge of a second packaged article.