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A closure is provided for a flexible bag such as a game bag used by skin divers which is very simply made of resilient metal bar stock which define two bails having handles acting as detents, the bails and handles being so configured and connected that the bails will open to a full-open position but

A closure is provided for a flexible bag such as a game bag used by skin divers which is very simply made of resilient metal bar stock which define two bails having handles acting as detents, the bails and handles being so configured and connected that the bails will open to a full-open position but no farther, and when closed a diver can close the bails and engage the handles in latched position with a single hand due to a double dimensional biasing created by the shaping and engagement of the bails and the bowed spanner bars of the handles.

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A bag enclosure comprising: (a) a pair of bails hinged together at their ends to define a hinge axis and having a front side which defines the open mouth of a bag engaged thereon and a back side comprising the other side; (b) one of the bails having a retainer extending therefrom which includes a co

A bag enclosure comprising: (a) a pair of bails hinged together at their ends to define a hinge axis and having a front side which defines the open mouth of a bag engaged thereon and a back side comprising the other side; (b) one of the bails having a retainer extending therefrom which includes a component generally parallel to said axis, and the other of said bails having a detent which passes around the radial inside of said generally parallel component to be positively engaged on the back side thereof as said bails are closed, said bails being dimensioned and hinged to bias said detent outwardly as same rotates beneath and behind said retainer, whereby a bag having a flexible mouth engaged around said bail can be alternatively positively shut or open; (c) said bails being resiliently hinged together in order to maintain contact between said detent and said retainer as the detent is moved relative to the retainer to lock or unlock the enclosure; (d) said retainer and detent comprising loop handles extending from respective ones of said bails with the former being wider than the latter to permit the detent handle to pass through the retainer handle; and (e) each of said handles defining a spanner bar which engages the other of said spanner bars when said closure is closed, and at least one of said spanner bars being bowed in the direction tangential to a rotational arc established around said axis and toward the other spanner bar, whereby said detent spanner bar passes through, up past, and over said retainer spanner bar against both radial and angular biasing to positively lock said handles together.