Patent ID: 7798715

Claim:
A synthetic resin bag for use with automatic bag filling equipment, the bag comprising: (A) first and second side walls joined along two side edge portions and a bottom edge portion to form the bag, the first side wall being formed at least in substantial part from a synthetic resin mesh material and at least a majority of the second side wall being formed from a synthetic resin film material, opposed side edges of the first and second side walls being thermally bonded to one another at vertically extending seams; and (B) a reinforcing strip of the synthetic resin film extending along an upper edge of the first side wall of the bag, wherein 1) the reinforcing strip has a horizontal length, a vertical width, a bottom edge, a top edge, and a pair of side edges; 2) the reinforcing strip overlaps and is thermally bonded to the upper edge of the first side wall at a location well beneath the top edge of the reinforcing strip to form an extension that protrudes well above the upper edge of the first side wall, the extension having a vertical width and a horizontal length, and 3) the side edges of the extension are thermally bonded directly to the synthetic resin film material of the second side wall along seams extending at least a majority of the width of the extension.