Bundle of supple bags, made of fine material such as plastics material or paper

Claim 1

A bundle of supple bags for carrying articles, in which each said bag comprises: a front and a rear principal wall defining a volume which presents a bottom and an upper opening; each said principal wall including a pair of spaced lateral handles having aligned holes therethrough, the superimposed bags of the bundle being adapted to be supported by at least two parallel rods passing through said holes; said bags being joined in series by a separable connection of each of their two principal walls with the adjacent principal wall of an adjacent bag, in the vicinity of said opening, the assembly being such that the first bag is removed by pulling thereon in the direction of superposition in order to separate the first bag from the following by destroying said connection, such removal being accompanied by a spacing apart of the principal walls of the following bag due to said pulling, wherein the separable connection is constituted by a glued or welded localized zone below the center of the edge of the opening; and each said bag comprises, above this glued or welded localized zone and between said lateral handles, a single support tongue having an elongated opening and base portions on each side of said elongated opening, said base portions being joined in separable manner to at least one of said principal walls of said bag, considering the direction of removal, the base portions of said tongue being joined to the edge of said one principal wall defining the opening of the bag and forming at least one central hole for the passage of another rod separate and apart from said at least two parallel rods; said elongated opening defining said central hole terminating at the upper edge of said principal wall to which said base portions are connected.