Patent ID: 7318525

Claim:
A stack of vest-style bags, each bag comprising a front layer and a rear layer of flexible sheet material, the layers defining a bag body having a closed base end, closed sides, an open mouth end opposite the base end, and two handle parts spaced from each other and extending from the open mouth end, the front layer further defining a front tab extending from the open mouth end from a point between the two handle parts, the front tab being sufficiently long to allow it to hang down from the open mouth end toward the closed base end, the rear layer further defining a rear tab extending from the open mouth end from a point between the two handle parts, the stack of bags having attachment means to which the spaced apart handles of the bags in the stack are separably attached by lines of weakening at respective handle attachment points spaced from the mouth of each bag, the front and rear tabs being separably attached to that attachment means by lines of weakening at respective tab attachment points spaced from the open mouth end of each bag, the rear tab of each bag in the stack being separably attached to the front tab of a subsequent bag in the stack.