Claims
- 1. In a continuous process for the successive packaging of individual articles in a series of articles delivered sequentially to a packaging station, the improvement comprising the steps of:
- providing a stack of flattened flexible packaging sheets held assembled on an elongate flexible binding member extending through registered wicket holes in said sheets, said member defining a hand grippable severable loop between the wicket holes of the topmost sheet of said stack and a shank extending from each wicket hole in the bottommost sheet of the stack,
- mounting the stack of sheets on a sheet dispensing wicket base means arranged and disposed to secure the shank portions of the flexible binding member,
- severing the flexible binding member at a point on the hand grippable loop and thereby forming upwardly extending free-ended flexible wicket elements holding said sheets in readiness for one at a time removal, and
- removing the packaging sheets from the stack over said severed ends of the severed loop of the flexible binding member without tearing said sheets.
- 2. A method according to claim 1 wherein each unitary packaging sheet in the stack consists of a flattened closed bottom open top packaging bag.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of our prior U.S. application Ser. No. 808,310 filed June 20, 1977 which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 698,847 filed June 23, 1976 which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 516,240 filed Oct. 18, 1974.
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