Bag with carrying handle for containing merchandise

Abstract

A bag formed of a flaccid material for receiving and containing merchandise, the bag being formed by a sheet of such material folded along a fold line to provide two juxtaposed or overlapping wall panels having adjacent side edges which are joined to one another. The fold line is tucked inwardly between the wall panels forming top edges along the wall panels and forming a gusset with the overlapping portions of the wall panels. A separate strip of material is folded lengthwise along a fold line and is disposed about the surfaces of the wall panels externally of the gusset with the fold line of the strip extending generally parallel and adjacent to the top edges of the wall panels. The side portions of the strip are joined at each end thereof to the respective adjacent external surface of the wall panel by seals formed in V-shaped patterns defined by lines extending diagonally at substantially a forty-five degree angle between the side edges and the top edges of the wall panels. The strip is formed with a slit at each end which extends a predetermined length along the fold line. The predetermined length of the slit is sufficiently long to permit the side portions of the strip to separate at the ends of the strip and to permit the wall panels to assume an open disposition when the bag is filled, and so that the strip will extend across the end panel in proximity thereto to provide a handle for the bag.