Patent ID: 7481393

Claim:
A produce bag dispensing system comprising: a roll of plastic produce bags formed of fully-severed individual bags, each bag having substantially less than 500 square inches of plastic material and the plastic material being substantially of less than 15 micron thickness; a container sized to hold the roll of plastic produce bags and providing an opening through which the bags may be dispensed; wherein each bag in the roll of plastic bags includes a longitudinal fold and wherein adjacent bags in the roll of plastic bags are interleaved along the longitudinal folds to form overlapped portions that interlock adjacent bags through the longitudinal folds; and wherein a friction between overlapped portions of each bag is configured to draw a subsequent bag in the roll of plastic bags partially through the opening upon extraction of an adjacent bag through the opening and be overcome to separate the adjacent bag from the subsequent bag before the subsequent bag is fully extracted through the opening.