Method of packaging food commodities for merchandising purposes

Claim 1

THE METHOD OF PROTECTIVELY PACKAGINE IRREGULAR INDIVIDUAL PLIANT BODIES OF FOODSTUFFS FOR MERCHANDISING PURPOSES, WHICH COMPRISES, INITIALLY SELECTING A BAG FORMED OF INHERENTLY ELESTIC AND IMPERVIOUS FLEXIBLE MODIFIED POLYETHYLENE FILM AND HAVING A TUBULAR WALL OF SMALLER NORMAL CIRCUMFERENCE THAN THE GREATEST EXTERNAL CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE BODY TO BE PACKAGEED THEREIN, CIRCUMFERENTIALLY STRETCHING THE TUBULAR BAG WALL TO APPROXIMATELY SUCH GREATEST BODY CIRCUMFERENCE BY APPLICATION OF INTERNAL MECHANICAL PRESSURE AND HOLDING THE WALL IN SUCH STRETCHED CONDITION, INSERTING THE BODY TO BE PACKAGED INTO THE STRETCHED BAG THROUGH ITS MOUTH WHILE MAINTAINING AN AIR ESCAPE SPACE EXTEDING LONGITUDINALLY OF THE BAG FROM ITS CLOSED END TO THE MOUTH THEREOF, CONTINUING THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BODY INTO AND FORCIBLY AGAINST THE CLOSED BOTTOM END OF THE BAG WHILE POSTIVELY MAINTAINING THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL BAG-STRETCHING PRESSURE TO THEREBY LONGITUDINALLY COMPRESS ANS SQUAT THE BODY AND TO ALSO EVACUATE AIR FROM THE BAG, THEREAFTER RELEASING THE STGRETCHING PRESSURE TO CAUSE THE INHERENT ELASTICITY OF THE BAG-FORMING MATERIAL ALONE TO CONTRACT THE BAG INTO SNUG COMPRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE BODY, AND FINALLY SEALING THE BAG MOUTH TO CONFINE THE SQUATTED BODY WITHIN THE BAG.

Claim 2

THE METHOD OF PROTECTIVELY PACKAGINE IRREGULAR INDIVIDUAL PLIANT BODIES OF FOODSTUFFS FOR MERCHANDISING PURPOSES, WHICH COMPRISES, INITIALLY SELECTING A BAG FORMED OF INHERENTLY ELESTIC AND IMPERVIOUS FLEXIBLE MODIFIED POLYETHYLENE FILM AND HAVING A TUBULAR WALL OF SMALLER NORMAL CIRCUMFERENCE THAN THE GREATEST EXTERNAL CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE BODY TO BE PACKAGEED THEREIN, CIRCUMFERENTIALLY STRETCHING THE TUBULAR BAG WALL TO APPROXIMATELY SUCH GREATEST BODY CIRCUMFERENCE BY APPLICATION OF INTERNAL MECHANICAL PRESSURE AND HOLDING THE WALL IN SUCH STRETCHED CONDITION, INSERTING THE BODY TO BE PACKAGED INTO THE STRETCHED BAG THROUGH ITS MOUTH WHILE MAINTAINING AN AIR ESCAPE SPACE EXTEDING LONGITUDINALLY OF THE BAG FROM ITS CLOSED END TO THE MOUTH THEREOF, CONTINUING THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE BODY INTO AND FORCIBLY AGAINST THE CLOSED BOTTOM END OF THE BAG WHILE POSTIVELY MAINTAINING THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL BAG-STRETCHING PRESSURE TO THEREBY LONGITUDINALLY COMPRESS ANS SQUAT THE BODY AND TO ALSO EVACUATE AIR FROM THE BAG, THEREAFTER RELEASING THE STGRETCHING PRESSURE TO CAUSE THE INHERENT ELASTICITY OF THE BAG-FORMING MATERIAL ALONE TO CONTRACT THE BAG INTO SNUG COMPRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE BODY, AND FINALLY SEALING THE BAG MOUTH TO CONFINE THE SQUATTED BODY WITHIN THE BAG.