Bag book

Claim 2

A bag book comprising a plurality of bags bound together along an edge to provide a book, each bag forming a page of said book and providing a pocket in the interior of said bag; wherein each said bag is open at the top and is closed at the right, left and bottom edges, and is bound at said left edge; wherein said bags are folded upwardly to define an upwardly facing edge prior to binding, to form an auxiliary pocket between said upwardly facing edge and the body of the bag, such that each bag page comprises two pockets.

Claim 3

The invention according to claim 1 wherein one end of said upwardly facing edge is bound with said left bag edge in said binding, and wherein the other end of said upwardly facing edge is fastened to said right bag edge, to form said auxiliary pocket.

Claim 4

The invention according to claim 2 wherein said bag is of the flat bottom type having a bottom horizontal wall of left-right and forward-rearward horizontal extension, and wherein said upwardly facing edge is folded upwardly to a point below said open top of said bag such that said auxiliary pocket is shallower than said pocket in said bag.

Claim 5

The invention according to claim 2 wherein said bag is of the flat bottom type having a bottom horizontal wall of left-right and forward-rearward horizontal extension, and having side bellows in said left and right edges enabling forward-rearward expansion, and wherein one of the forward and rearward edges of said bottom horizontal wall is folded upwardly to form an upwardly facing edge and auxiliary pocket, and the other of the forward and rearward edges of said bottom wall is the bottom edge of the main pocket in the open top of said bag.

Claim 6

The invention according to claim 4 wherein said side bellows is formed by a pair of outer creases and an inner crease with sheet-like bag side wall sections therebetween, and wherein said other end of said upwardly facing edge is fastened only to the outer crease adjacent thereto, to enable expansion of the inner crease and the other outer crease away therefrom.

Claim 7

The invention according to claim 2 wherein said bag is of the flat bottom type having a bottom horizontal wall of left-right and forward-rearward horizontal extension, and having side bellows in said left and right edges enabling forward-rearward expansion, and wherein the rearward edge of said bottom horizontal wall is folded upwardly to form a rearward said upwardly facing edge and a first auxilliary pocket, and the forward edge of said bottom wall is folded upwardly to form a forward upwardly facing edge and a second auxiliary pocket.

Claim 8

The invention according to claim 6 wherein the main pocket in said bag and each of said first and second auxiliary pockets on opposite sides thereof have a bottom edge at substantially the same vertical level.

Claim 9

The invention according to claim 2 wherein said bag is of the crease bottom type having left-right extension, but no forward-rearward extension.

Claim 10

The invention according to claim 8 wherein said left and right edges of said bag have side bellows enabling forward-rearward expansion, said side bellows being formed by a pair of outer creases and an inner crease with sheet-like bag side wall sections therebetween, and wherein said other end of said upwardly facing edge is fastened only to the outer crease adjacent thereto, to enable expansion of the inner crease and the other outer crease away therefrom.

Claim 11

A bag book constructed of standard paper grocery bags comprising a plurality of bags each open at the top, and closed at the bottom, left and right edges, said left and right edges having side bellows enabling forward-rearward expansion, the bottom edge of the bag being folded upwardly to define an upwardly facing edge forming an auxiliary pocket in addition to a main pocket in the open top of the bag, the bottom of the main pocket being the bottom crease in the bag after said upward folding, said bags being bound together along said left edge, including the left end of said upwardly facing edge, the right end of said upwardly facing edge being fastened to said bag edge to form said auxiliary pocket.

Claim 12

A bag book constructed of standard paper grocery bags comprising a plurality of bags each open at the top, and closed at the bottom, left and right edges, said left and right edges having side bellows enabling forward-rearward expansion, the bottom edge of the bag being folded upwardly to define an upwardly facing edge forming an auxiliary pocket in addition to a main pocket in the open top of the bag, the bottom of the main pocket being the bottom crease in the bag after said upward folding, said bags being bound together along said left edge, including the left end of said upwardly facing edge, the right end of said upwardly facing edge being fastened to said bag edge to form said auxiliary pocket.

Claim 13

The invention according to claim 10 wherein at least one of said bags is of the flat bottom type and wherein the bottom of said auxiliary pocket is vertically spaced above the bottom of said main pocket.

Claim 14

The invention according to claim 11 wherein said bag has a bottom horizontal wall of left-right and forward-rearward extension, the bottom of said main pocket being formed by one of the forward and rearward edges of said bottom horizontal wall, the other of the forward and rearward edges of said bottom horizontal wall providing said upwardly facing edge, the bottom of said auxiliary pocket being formed by a crease in one of the bag forward and rearward vertical walls, said last mentioned crease being vertically spaced above said one of said forward and rearward edges of said bottom horizontal wall.

Claim 15

The invention according to claim 10 wherein at least one of said bags is of the flat bottom type and wherein the bottom of said auxiliary pocket is at substantially the same vertical level as the bottom of said main pocket.

Claim 16

The invention according to claim 13 wherein said bag has a bottom horizontal wall of left-right and forward-rearward extension, the bottom of said main pocket being formed by the center of said forward-rearward flat bottom wall, the bottom of said auxiliary pocket being formed by a crease in the bag rearward vertical wall due to upward folding of said rearward edge of said bottom horizontal wall, a second auxiliary front pocket being formed by a crease in the bag forward vertical wall due to upward folding of the forward edge of said bottom horizontal wall.

Claim 17

The invention according to claim 10 wherein at least one of said bags is of the crease bottom type and wherein the bottom of said auxiliary pocket is substantially at the same vertical level as the bottom of said main pocket.

Claim 18

A book comprising a plurality of pages bound together, each page having front and rear walls and left and right side walls, said left and right side walls having bellows therein enabling forward-rearward expansion, each said bellow being formed by a pair of outer creases and an inner crease with sheet-like side wall sections therebetween, the bottom of said page being folded upwardly, the left edge of said page being bound with the other said pages by binding means attached to each of said outer creases of said left edge and to each of said outer creases of the upwardly folded portion of said left edge, and means fastening only one of said outer creases of said right edge to the upwardly folded portion of said right edge adjacent thereto, such that said inner crease and said other outer crease of said right edge are free to expand away from said one outer crease of said right edge.

Claim 19

A book comprising a plurality of pages bound together, each page having front and rear walls and left and right side walls, said left and right side walls having bellows therein enabling forward-rearward expansion, each said bellow being formed by a pair of outer creases and an inner crease with sheet-like side wall sections therebetween, the bottom of said page being folded upwardly, the left edge of said page being bound with the other said pages by binding means attached to each of said outer creases of said left edge and to each of said outer creases of the upwardly folded portion of said left edge, and means fastening only one of said outer creases of said right edge to the upwardly folded portion of said right edge adjacent thereto, such that said inner crease and said other outer crease of said right edge are free to expand away from said one outer crease of said right edge.

Claim 20

The invention according to claim 16 wherein said one outer crease of said right edge is fastened to at least one outer crease of said upwardly folded portion of said right edge.

Claim 21

The invention according to claim 17 wherein said one outer crease of said right edge is fastened to said at least one outer crease of said upwardly folded portion of said right edge only at the top of the latter.