Abstract A bag made of plastic material such as polyethylene in the shape of several fingers of bananas. Each bag has an upper ''''gathering portion'''' adjacent the main opening, and beyond that portion, a concavo-convex portion shaped to receive several fingers of bananas and to conform generally to the shape thereof. It may have an open corner for crown protrusion and/or perforations, for ventilation purposes. After the banana fingers are put into the bag, the gathering portion is gathered together and bound with a wire-type binder or other means such as tape or cord. The bags are made from a tube of plastic material that is slit lengthwise, and folded into a J section. The J sheeting is cut into rectangles of size to permit the making of a bag from each rectangle, in an operation wherein the shape of a bag is formed in each rectangle, sealed around its periphery and perforated so that the surplus material outside the seal can be pulled away. At this time, the rectangles are formed with air holes through their panels and with wicketing holes in the lip portion formed by the overlap of the J sheet. These wicket holes enable the rectangles to be impaled with others on a wicket to form a stack. When stacked, the surplus material is pulled away from the sealed sides of the bags as permitted by the perforations, and may be reground, pelleted and reextruded to make new film. Thereafter, individual bags may be pulled off the wickets and used.
In a bag formed in a shape to receive several attached fingers of bananas: the bag having joined front and back panels of clear, flexible plastic, air-impermeable sheet material, the bag having an entrance opening at its top whereat the top panel edges are not secured together, the front and back panels being sealed together at their upper edges and the panels being longer from top to bottom than several attached fingers of bananas to form a generally tubular gathering portion adjacent the entrance opening, beyond which the bag panel edges on one side are sealed together in a convex curve from one side around the bottom to a toe portion, disposed adjacent the other side, and on the other side are sealed together in a concave curve above the toe portion, so as to conform to the curved shape of a plurality of banana fingers; and vent opening means in the bag but being too small for egress of the bananas.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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In a bag formed in a shape to receive several attached fingers of bananas: the bag having joined front and back panels of clear, flexible plastic, air-impermeable sheet material, the bag having an entrance opening at its top whereat the top panel edges are not secured together, the front and back panels being sealed together at their upper edges and the panels being longer from top to bottom than several attached fingers of bananas to form a generally tubular gathering portion adjacent the entrance opening, beyond which the bag panel edges on one side are sealed together in a convex curve from one side around the bottom to a toe portion, disposed adjacent the other side, and on the other side are sealed together in a concave curve above the toe portion, so as to conform to the curved shape of a plurality of banana fingers; and vent opening means in the bag but being too small for egress of the bananas.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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In a bag of claim 1: a toe opening through the toe portion, between the convex and concave edges, to permit latex outflow from the bananas, but being too small for egress of banana fingers.