Side tear tabless T-shirt style bag pack

Abstract

A t-shirt style grocery or merchandise bag pack includes a plurality of plastic bags, each having a pair of bag handles and a central tab located above the bag mouth. The bag pack is suspended from a dispensing rack by openings through the bag handles and a hanging aperture located in the central tab. The tab is designed to rupture at the hanging aperture when the bag is dispensed from the rack. The tab may have a flattened top and a pair of opposed lateral sides or it may have a rounded top. The weakened area may take the form of a cut or a notch. These weakened areas may begin at the hanging aperture or one of the lateral sides of the flattened top tab or at a point below the top most point of the rounded tab. The weakened area may also be perforation or a single opening.

Description

FIELD OF INVENTION [0001] The invention pertains to plastic grocery, produce and merchandise bags. More particularly, the invention relates to T-shirt style handle bags manufactured in registered stacks for dispensing from racks. The bags are dispensed without leaving a torn tab portion on the dispenser. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] T-shirt style bags were developed to provide a strong, low-cost, high capacity bag for groceries or merchandise that incorporates strong, integral handles. This is accomplished by creating a gusseted polyethylene tube, sealing it at both ends and cutting out a “mouth section.” The result is a bag that includes a pair of strong handles formed from the side gussets and the bag's upper seam. While such bags are very useful for transporting heavy loads, they can be difficult to load as they lack the means to stand upright while empty, as does a square-bottomed paper bag. [0003] For this reason, racks have been developed to hold and dispense registered ...

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Benefits of technology

[0045]FIG. 9 is a detailed partial plan view of the tab of the FIG. 1 embodiment illustrating a weakened area consisting of a cut between the hanging aperture and tab perimeter disposed at 45 degrees to the vertical axis of the bag;

[0046]FIG. 10 is a detailed partial plan view of the tab of the FIG. 1 embodiment illustrating a weakened area consisting of a cut

Problems solved by technology

When one of the bags is pulled from the dispensing rack, the weakened area of the central tab will rupture, thereby causing the central tab to remain with the dispensed bag.

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