Freezing mould bag

Claim 1

A disposable freezing mould bag for receiving and retaining therein liquid to be frozen into a plurality of objects suitable for human consumption, and for being destroyed to gain access to the frozen objects, the mould bag comprising: first and second generally rectangular opposed sheets of thin and flexible plastics material defining the walls of the mould bag, said opposed sheets having top edges, bottom edges and side edges, and being flat and lying in contact with one another prior to the bag being filled with liquid; said first and second opposed sheets being heat sealed at a plurality of positions spaced over selected portions of the sheets, with the exception of defined unsealed portions for receiving the liquid to be frozen; the unsealed portions in a lower generally rectangular portion of the bag defining a plurality of interconnected compartments of substantially the same configuration, the compartments being interconnected by channels of reduced cross-sectional area, the walls of the compartments being defined by said opposed sheets, and being in substantial contact with each other prior to filling of the bag and each being distended away from the other by the liquid to be frozen after filling of the bag, said first and second opposed sheets being of a thickness so as to be rupturable at said unsealed compartments to facilitate removal of the frozen objects from the bag; and the unsealed portions in an upper generally rectangular portion of the bag defining a filling channel extending from the top edge of the bag to at least one of said compartments so that liquid entering the opening of said filling channel flows into, distends, and fills all of the compartments; said bag being flat when unfilled, adapted to receive liquid through said filling channel to all of said compartments to bulge the walls of the compartments due to the presence of the liquid, and to form a frozen mass defined by all of said compartments and unsealed channel areas therebetween, said frozen mass in the channels between compartments being readily breakable when the compartments are ruptured to gain access to the frozen objects in the compartments.