A bag (100) suitable for packaging fruit and vegetable products (2) comprising a casing (103) capable of housing the products to be packaged and at least one first band (104) and one second band (105) each arranged on the outer face of the casing so as to seal said casing, the first band (104) being joined to the casing only at its ends (104a, 104b) forming a handle (106) and the second band (105) joined along the length thereof to the associated face of the casing, forming a stable bottom (105c). A station (1) for producing this bag (100) comprises an expansion device (4) of tubular material comprising an upper expansion body (4a) and a lower expansion body (4b) mechanically linked to each other with a capacity for movement of one with respect to the other and that cooperate with welding groups.

A reusable container for storage, transport, and sale of firewood. The container has a rectangular floor panel supporting a plurality of vertically disposed wall panels. The wall panels are connected at a first end to the base so as to provide a container having an open top for loading firewood into the container. One or more handles are secured to a second end of one or more wall panels and a closure mechanism is provided for closing a portion of the second end of one or more of the wall panels around the firewood in the container. The container is a reusable container.

The present invention is directed to a side-sealed open mesh fabric bag having one or more multi-layer seam structures. At least one side seam of the bag comprises a plurality of folded layers of the bag's fabric bonded together within a seam structure by a plurality of seal portions. At least one of those seal portions is a sacrificial seal configured to at least partially give from the seam structure, whilst one or more other seal portions of the seam structure remain intact. The sacrificial seal provides the bag with volumetric flexibility, whilst the remaining seam structure provides an improved seam strength.

The present invention relates to a band (1) that can be stored in reel format, which has areas coated by a thermally-activatable adhesive material (2) following a coating pattern (3) that is repeated along the band with at least two main transversal strips (5a, 5b) that extend between two longitudinal edges (1c) of the band and that include areas (21) coated with a grammage of thermally-activatable adhesive material between 35 and 130 gr/m.sup.2. A specific use of the band (1) is for making mesh bags (10) and in particular to close a portion of a tubular mesh (11) by interleaving said mesh portion between two coinciding portions of the same or of two bands (1, 1) and with respective main transversal strips (5a, 5a) of the coating pattern (3) towards the mesh; applying pressure; and providing heat.

A sports bag has a sheet body having a first edge, a second edge, and a pair of side edges. A fold point traverses the sheet body, between the first and second edges, separating the sheet body into a first panel and a second panel. A pair of zipper fastening mechanisms are each disposed along one of the pair of side edges, and has interlocking attachment strips extending in opposite directions from the fold point. The interlocking attachment strips of each zipper fastening mechanism are initially entirely disconnected from each other so that the sheet body may be positioned completely flat, but the interlocking attachment strips may be fastened together so that the first and second panels are connected together at the side edges to form an inner chamber between the first and second panels. Furthermore, at least one handle is attached to the elongate sheet body for carrying the sports bag.

Disclosed is a garment bag comprising: a first and second panel attached along three sides, defining a bag interior; wherein a plurality of receiving fasteners are provided in the bag interior on the first panel adjacent to a top edge. The receiving fasteners may be used to securely provide garments having hooks into the garment bag.

An embodiment includes a bag comprising mesh and film side walls and a reinforcing strip of film; wherein (a) the mesh side wall is sealed to opposing side edges of the film side wall; (b) the reinforcing strip of film is sealed to an upper portion of the mesh side wall and to the opposing side edges of the film side wall; (c) the film side wall has a bottom extension, which is monolithic with the film side wall, extending upwardly and sealed along a lateral extent of a bottom portion of the mesh side wall; (d) the film side wall is non-coplanar with a portion of the bottom extension; (e) another portion of the bottom extension is non-coplanar with the mesh side wall; and (f) a horizontal axis intersects the bottom portion of the film side wall and three portions of the bottom extension.

A reinforced multilayer material includes a mesh material covered on at least one side, and possibly both, by a layer of a resinous film material. The mesh material includes filaments that intersect one another, at least some of the filaments being composite filaments having a carrier portion of a relatively high melting point and a bonding portion of a relatively low melting point, the bonding portion of each composite filament being thermally bonded to other filaments at least some points of intersection. The multilayer material has a mass per unit area of less than 9.0 oz/yd.sup.2 and at least one of a) a bursting strength to mass per unit area ratio of at least 9.0 lbs./(oz/yd.sup.2), where bursting strength is measured in accordance with ASTM-D37 86 and b) a breaking elongation of at least 5% in the warp direction when breaking elongation is measured in accordance with ASTM-5034. A bag is provided that is made at least in part from a multilayer material having at least some of the characteristics described above.

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 handled shipping bag or sack is described that is capable of manufacture without requiring registration of the handle to a width of the bag. The shipping bag includes a cover tape having perforations particularly well suited for finger holds of a user that center the users hand relative to the width of the bag without requiring a registration of the finger holds relative to the bag during the manufacture of the bag.