Plastic garbage bag holder and sealer

Claim 1

A holder for holding the mouth of a resilient bag of given length in open configuration yet adaptable to display the bag in a closed configuration comprising: a. a bracket member including a pair of foot members having ends held in spaced relationship and adapted for resting engagement on the floor, a pair of uprisers connected to the ends and an upper cross member connecting with each of the uprisers to form a U-shaped member upon the ends of the pair of foot members, said uprisers having along their length socket means, the upper cross member having a bow there along adapted to act as a latch to one side of the rotatable element to thereby constrain the same as desired; b. means, disposed a predetermined distance from a rest surface, for securing the bracket member to a support member, said predetermined distance slightly less in length than the given length of the bag such that a portion of the bag rests on the floor; c. a rigid wire-like bag supporting element of closed configuration having a fixed perimeter slightly larger than the mouth of the resilient bag and having an outward perimeter surface supporting the element adapted to stretchingly accommodate the lip of the mouth of the bag about the outward perimeter such that the continual contraction of the lip frictionally engages the mouth of the bag about the outward perimeter of the element to secure the resilient bag thereto in an open mouth configuration; and, d. connector means secured to diametrically opposed sides of the element, said connector means adapted to engage the sockets and to pivot therein such that the element may be disposed at different angulations to the plane of the bracket to thereby dispose the mouth of the bag in an open and in an apparent closed relationship.