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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1995
Harry B Wilfong, Jr, Hartsville, SC (US);
Edwin W Haenni, Hartsville, SC (US);
Sonoco Products Company, Hartsville, SC (US);
Abstract
A compact rack construction is provided for mounting a pack of thermoplastic grocery or retail product bags of the T-shirt type and which includes a frame and a pair of generally horizontally and outwardly extending laterally-spaced support arms for receiving the apertures in the handles of the bags in the pack at an outer end portion and for mounting the bag pack on a horizontal portion for consecutive opening and removal of the bags from the bag pack and from the rack. Each of the support arms include an upper surface and a lower surface extending horizontally from the frame to define the horizontal portion of the support arms therebetween and then extending upwardly from horizontal at predetermined different angles and being joined at outer ends to each other by a loop surface formed with a smooth radius to define the support arm outer end portion therebetween. The upward extension of said lower surface is offset forward with respect to the upward extension of said upper surface. This construction allows mounting of the bag pack on the support arms over the outer end portion, while providing a resistance to free movement of the handles of the bags off the outer end portion of the support arms.