A bag has a bag body that defines an interior and opening. A reclosable closure repeatably closes the opening. A header includes a covering flap connected to the bag body and has upwardly and inwardly angled side edge margin. Zones of weakness defining a tear strip extend across the covering flap. The covering flap can be attached to the bag body while covering the closure. To access the closure, the tear strip is torn away. The bag can also have a removable panel, which can be attached to the removable panels of other bags to form a header pack. The bag body and covering flap can be removed from the header pack by being torn along another zone of weakness between the covering flap and removable panel that has a lower tear strength than the zones of weakness defining the tear strip.

A bag includes multiple bags nested within it. The bags may be sealed together along the open edge to eliminate slippage before use. When bags are ready for use, the seal may be broken to allow removal of each bag separately.

The common practice of taking out the trash requires the undesirable task of replacing a full trash bag with an empty trash bag. The frequency of this task can be reduced by placing multiple trash bags at once, in the trash can structure. When a bag is removed, the remaining layers stay in the structure awaiting use.

A wide mouth carryout bag includes a front wall and a rear wall, each wall having a top edge, a bottom edge, first and second side edges. First and second side gusset joins the first and second side edges of the front wall to the first and second side edges of the rear wall. The first and second side gussets are folded inwardly from the first and second side edges of the front and rear walls. The bottom edge of the front wall is joined to the bottom edge of the rear wall at a bottom seal after the inward folding of the first and second side gussets. First and second angle seals extend from the first and second side edge of the walls to the bottom seal. When the wide mouth carryout bag is opened, the two angle seals will cause the bag to have a substantially flat bottom.

An apparatus for making a self-opening bag pack includes a supply of film material. An extruder forms a continuous tube of film. A flattener flattens the tube. A corona treater treats at least one surface of the flattened tube. A first sealer forms a bottom seam across a width of the flattened tube. A cutter cuts the flattened tube into bag blanks at a predetermined distance from the bottom seam. A stacker forms the bag blanks into a bag pack. An adhesion knife penetrates the bag pack and adheres adjacent bag blanks together in the bag pack. An aperture maker forms means for suspending the bag pack from a dispensing rack. The pack is attached to the dispensing rack and the front wall of the subsequent bag will be adhered to the rear wall of a first bag, thereby causing the first bag to open when pulled from the rack.

Roof runoff water control systems for a building with gutters and a downspout and buildings without gutters. Both systems employ a swale in the ground that is lined with rock filled bags that are opened and laid overlapped end-to-end. For the downspout, a closed bag filled with rock is placed under the downspout with open bags filled with rock laid overlapped end-to-end in the swale and overlapped downstream from the closed bag. For a building without gutters and having a drip line in the ground, open bags filled with rock are laid overlapped end-to-end in the swale. The swale and the open bags are aligned with the drip line.

A bag having a front wall, back wall, first side wall, second side wall, top end, and bottom end; where at least one of a first edge of the first side wall and a first edge of the front wall and a first edge of the back wall and a first edge of the second side wall are sealed to form a sealed corner, where the sealed corner is heat sealed; where the bag is adapted to form a cube shape when filled with a filling material and both the top and bottom end of the bag are sealed; and where each of the front, back, first side, and second side wall include (i) a first woven layer including polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof; and (ii) a second film layer laminated to the first layer, said second layer including polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof.

Container units configured to be held on a wicket can include an envelope having flexible walls fixed to each other and defining a pocket for holding an item, and a wicketing flap connected to one of the flexible walls and configured to engage a wicket to suspend the wicketed packaging device from the wicket. The wicketing flap can detach from the envelope in response to a force exerted on the envelope, and can remain engaged with the wicket upon separating from the envelope. The wicketing flaps of a plurality of the container units can be connected to form a wicketing spine that helps to distribute the pulling force exerted on one of the container units to at least some of the other container units.

A self-opening bag includes front and real walls joined at their respective first and second side and bottom edges. The bag is folded at least once parallel to its side edges. At least one attaching feature is located on the outer surface of the bag adjacent the upper end and between the folded walls. The bag is releasably attached to a subsequent bag. The at least one attaching feature causes the bag to open as the bag is pulled from the subsequent bag. The once folded bag may be sealed at the bottom edges after folding to form a star-sealed bag bottom. The bags may be removably attached to each other at a perforation line and wound onto a compact roll for use with a bag dispenser. The bags may have an upper seam, a U-shaped cut and a pair of bag handles. The bags may be corona treated.

A disposable bag for maintaining sterility of a medical instrument having a detection mechanism and cable extending from the detection mechanism, wherein the bag comprises: a pair of flexible sheets comprised of a polymeric material, the pair of sheets being arranged in parallel to each other and sealed along opposing lateral sides that extend longitudinally from a top end to a bottom end, the cable having a selected length such that upon insertion of the detection mechanism through the enclosed interior chamber of the bag, the cable extends longitudinally through the open bottom end, the bag being adapted to be attached to at least a portion of the cable that extends from the detection mechanism downstream toward the open bottom end.

A hanging bag dispenser includes a bag support platform having a surface that contacts a last bag in a vertically supported bag pack. An angled mounting device is attached to the bag support platform to engage a mounting aperture that penetrates each bag in the bag pack. A positioning system is attached to the bag support platform and maintains the bag support platform at a sufficient height to allow the bag pack to extend downwardly from the mounting device. A pivotally mounted bag control arm is mounted to the bag support platform and permits installation of the bag pack on the mounting device when pivoted to a first, loading position and located to rest upon an outermost bag in the bag pack when pivoted to a second, control position. A surrounding control cage is attached to the dispenser to prevent a user from pulling a lower portion of the bag.