Patent ID: 7818949

Claim:
A method of bagging an article into a stretchable bag comprising: a) providing a stretchable bag having an opening for receiving the article; b) loading the stretchable bag on first and second pairs of corner members of a stretching apparatus, the corner members being displaceable along first and second orthogonal directions; c) stretching the bag by: i) displacing the second pair of corner members away from said first pair of corner members along said first direction while said first pair remains stationary, ii) displacing said corner members of said first pair away from one another along said second direction while at the same time displacing said corner members of said second pair outwardly at a same rate in said first and second orthogonal directions away from said corner members of said first pair, and finally iii) further displacing said second pair of corner members away from said first pair of corner members along said first direction; and d) lowering the stretchable bag in a taut open state over the article.