Plastic bag with integral strap handles

Claim 1

In a bag: a pair of panels of bag material disposed in superposed relation, each said panel having side edges and top and bottom ends coinciding with the corresponding edges and ends of the other panel in the superposed relation aforesaid, the coinciding side edges and bottom edges being joined to each other and the top ends disconnected from each other providing a mouth for the bag; said coinciding side edges being connected to each other by a seal, a strap constituted by an integral extension of each said top panel and folded to lie withdrawably within the bag mouth with its ends sandwiched between and joined to the proximal panel edges; each said strap being detached from its assocaited panel intermediate said panel edges; said straps being undetached from the top ends of their assocaited panels in end zones of the bag mouth adjacent said panel edges, and tacks affixing each said strap intermediate said end zones to its associated panel to retain it in the bag mouth; said tacks providing connections between said straps and said top ends, each of said connections being weaker than the connection provided by said seal some, at least, of said tacks being readily breakable to permit withdrawal of said straps from the bag mouth to serve as bag handles, each of said tacks being spaced from said end zones, each of said straps being affixed to its associated panel by a tack which is disposed substantially half way between said end zones.