Patent ID: 7946098

Claim:
A method of attaching a straw package to a foil bag having a triangular cross section, the method comprising: providing a plurality of foil bags having a base and a first side wall comprising a first film and a second side wall comprising a second film, the first wall being connected to the second wall at an acute angle therewith, the first film including a plurality of first side edges overlapping and adhered to a plurality of second side edges of the second film, the first film having a first top edge connected to a second top edge of the second film, the base being connected to a bottom edge of the first film and to a bottom edge of a second film; wherein the foil bags are constructed to stand with the base located toward the bottom of the foil bag; providing a plurality of straw packages having an adhesive thereon and a cover strip covering the adhesive; positioning each of the foil bags on a conveyor belt such that the foil bag lies on the conveyor belt on the first side wall, so that the second side wall is at an acute angle with the conveyor belt; removing the cover strip from the plurality of straw packages and exposing the adhesive; providing a lever having a depressing arm and a pivoting arm; rotating the pivoting arm of the lever to displace the depressing arm downward toward the conveyor belt to apply one straw package onto the second side wall at an acute angle to the conveyor belt such that the adhesive of the straw package contacts the second side wall.