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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1989
Ralph M Roen, Longview, TX (US);
T. C. Manufacturing Company, Inc., Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
A bag pad and dispenser therefor especially arranged for use at the point of sale of, for instance, discount stores, fast food outlets, and the like, in which the bag pad is made up of a number of identical all plastic bags in stacked congruent relation each having front and rear panels, closed bottoms and sides, and tear off lines transversely across the front and rear panels of the respective bags adjacent to but spaced from the top of bags that are congruently located through the thickness of the bag pad and that define a header for the bag pad at which the bags of the pad are adhered together and are free for full separation below the tear off lines, with the dispenser for such bag pad defining a pocket into which the bag pad header is slipped and secured to the dispenser for hanging the bag pad therefrom, which dispenser also defines a securing flange that accommodates anchoring of the dispenser to dispose the bag pad for bagging at the point of sale, and in its bag dispensing relation, in which an area of increased frictional characteristics that is provided on the front panel of each bag is exposed for consecutively manipulating a bag of the pad that is to receive a sold product to open such bag at its front panel for loading without removing the bag from the dispenser, or optionally to totally remove the bag entirely before loading of same.