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Bag storing and dispensing apparatus

  • US 4,005,801 A
  • Filed: 01/14/1976
  • Issued: 02/01/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/14/1976
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for storing and successively dispensing paper bags in opened condition, wherein each bag includes opposite side walls and opposite end walls connected by a bottom wall and being foldable between an open condition and a collapsed condition with the end walls folded between the side walls and the bottom wall folded against one of the side walls, said apparatus comprising a box-like structure defining a bag storing chamber and having a rectangular front opening and means for supporting a stack of substantially vertically arranged collapsed bags in said chamber with the upper end portion of said one side wall of the front-most bag in the stack exposed for manual gripping, restraining means adjacent the front opening for normally restraining the stack of bags in the chamber and for restraining the other side wall of the front-most bag when said one side wall is pulled from said restraining means, a transversely extending opening bar across the front opening and near the bottom thereof against which the entire lower half of the bottom wall of the bag engages, said opening bar being positioned below the restraining means and spaced inward of the restraining means such that the upper portion of the bags extends forward through the opening, a pusher member supported within said structure and engaging the back of the stack of bags, and means resiliently biasing said pusher member toward the front opening to continually maintain the front-most bag against the opening bar and the restraining means, whereby pulling upward on the one side wall of the bag causes unfolding of the bottom wall and opening of the bag as the bag is removed from the stack.

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