Bag dispenser and a bag unit therefore

Abstract

A bag unit comprising a pad of a stack of overlying bags, the bags each having a front and rear panel, closed sides and base region and a mouth end providing a mouth opening, and a wicket engagable region proximate to the mouth opening, each bag including a region proximate to the mouth opening providing adhesive for connecting the rear panel to a front panel of each consecutive bags of the stack, a storage and dispensing pouch within which the pad is retained, the pouch including a dispensing opening formed or to be formed in a wall of the pouch, juxtaposed to the first to be dispensed bag at the front of the pad to reveal only its front panel for dispensing through the opening, the adhesive is of a strength to a) allow separation during dispensing of a bag from the next to be dispensed in a manner where the dispensed bag is removed from the pouch in a mouth opening opened condition, and b) such that the next to be dispensed bag experiences movement during dispensing of the bag to become presented through the opening of the pouch in a partially upstanding condition from the stack for subsequent and easy to grasp complete dispensing thereof.

1 . A bag unit comprising: 
 a pad of a stack of overlying bags, said bags each having a front and rear panel, closed sides and base region and a mouth end providing a mouth opening, and a wicket engagable region proximate to said mouth opening, each bag including a region proximate to said mouth opening providing adhesive for connecting the rear panel to a front panel of each consecutive bags of said stack,    a storage and dispensing pouch within which said pad is retained, said pouch including a dispensing opening formed or to be formed in a wall of said pouch, juxtaposed to the first to be dispensed bag at the front of said pad to reveal only its front panel for dispensing through said opening,    said adhesive is of a strength to a) allow separation during dispensing of a bag from the next to be dispensed in a manner where the dispensed bag is removed from said pouch in a mouth opening opened condition, and b) such that said next to be dispensed bag experiences movement during dispensing of said bag to become presented through the opening of said pouch in a partially upstanding condition from said stack for subsequent and easy to grasp complete dispensing thereof.    
     
     
         2 . The bag unit of  claim 1  wherein said dispensing opening is provided at a location proximate to said mouth opening of said bags.  
     
     
         3 . The bag unit of  claim 1  wherein said bags are of a t-shirt type having spaced handles integral with said front and rear panels and extending from said mouth end of said bag.  
     
     
         4 . The bag unit of  claim 1  wherein said pad is folded about a fold line to place said handles adjacent the rear of said pad.  
     
     
         5 . The bag unit of  claim 4  wherein said fold line is transverse to a general longitudinal direction of said bags and is located intermediate of said mouth opening and the distal ends of said handles away from said bags.  
     
     
         6 . The bag unit of  claim 1  wherein said pad is folded about a fold line intermediate of said base region and said mouth region to place the base region of each bag adjacent the rear of said pad.  
     
     
         7 . The bag unit of  claim 6  wherein said fold line is transverse to the general longitudinal direction of said bags and is intermediate of said bottom region and the region of each said bag revealed or to become revealed for dispensing through said dispensing opening.  
     
     
         8 . The bag unit of  claim 1  wherein said pad includes a wicket engagable region provided by a frangible wicket engagable extension region of each bag.  
     
     
         9 . The bag unit as in one of claims  4 - 7  wherein said wicket engagable region of said pad is provided intermediate to any one of the fold lines.  
     
     
         10 . The bag unit of  claim 8  wherein said frangible wicket engagable extension region is provided adjacent the mouth end of each said bag and is severable from its respective bag to become separated from said bag upon it having been dispensed from said unit.  
     
     
         11 . The bag unit of  claim 8  wherein said frangible wicket engagable extension region of each bag is severable from its respective bag along a line or lines of weakness between front and rear panels of said bag and said frangible wicket engagable extension region.  
     
     
         12 . The bag unit of  claim 8  wherein said pad includes an aperture, extending through said frangible wicket engagable extension region of each bag, said aperture to receive a wicketing means of a support rack for said bag unit.  
     
     
         13 . The bag unit of  claim 12  wherein a bag unit binding means is provided engaged through said aperture of said pad and said opening of the pouch to bind the pouch and pad together.  
     
     
         14 . The bag unit as in claims  1 ,  8 ,  10  or  11  wherein said pouch includes an opening extending therethrough commensurate with the aperture of said pad to allow said wicketing means to extend through said bag unit.  
     
     
         15 . The bag unit of  claim 1  wherein said pouch is in a close fitting relationship with said pad.  
     
     
         16 . The bag unit of  claim 1 , further comprising at least one handle on the bag.  
     
     
         17 . A bag dispenser comprising: 
 a bag unit,    a support frame supporting said bag unit in a condition to present said pouch for use to allow a user to grasp a next to be dispensed bag through the dispensing opening for the dispensing of a next said bag to be dispensed, and    a wicketing means to extend through said aperture of said bag unit and said opening of said pouch, to restrain the movement of a frangible wicket engagable extension region of each bag such that during removal of a bag from said pouch, said frangible wicket engagable extension region is severed from said bag.