Ab Akerlund & Rausing

Boye Ditlef Benzon-Petersen

Istvan Stefan Lorant

Apparatus for manipulating carrying bags which are initially in a planely compressed state in a storage compartment. The bags are held on a carriage which may be rolled into and out of the storage compartment. Drive means secured to the storage compartment mate with driven means on the carriage, which driven means are adapted to feed the compressed bags to an opening and raising station. The opening and raising station includes a bottom plate pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis between a substantially horizontal position in which it supports an open bag and a substantially vertical position in which grip members are adapted to grip a portion of the compressed bag in order to pull the bag into an open form, after which the bottom plate is elevated into a higher position. The movement of the bottom plate is coordinated with two spades adapted to be pushed into a partly raised bag in order to be moved apart therein to maintain the bag in its open form.

Apparatus for storage and feeding of bags

In an improved tote, having a body, a bottom and two handles attached to the body, one of the handles is arranged to project outwardly from the mouth of the tote while the other handle is folded inwardly against the body part.

Carrying bag

The package of the invention is of the type having a relatively rigid back and flexible front part the two being united along a sealing line which is interrupted for a portion of the distance to provide an opening. In the package of the invention the opening is covered by a sheet attached to the flexible front portion of the package below the opening, and has a slot cooperating with the opening.

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Lund, Sweden

Boye Ditlef Benzon-Petersen