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A wire rack for holding a plastic bag open so that it can be filled, is constructed from wire stock, essentially without any welds. The plastic bag has integral handle loops which are held apart in the rack. Essential components of the wire rack are left and right swing panels each formed from a sin

A wire rack for holding a plastic bag open so that it can be filled, is constructed from wire stock, essentially without any welds. The plastic bag has integral handle loops which are held apart in the rack. Essential components of the wire rack are left and right swing panels each formed from a single length of wire stock; a spacer frame comprising plural parallel wire members having wrap-around-ends, wrapped around the upper portions of each panel; and, a laminar base support means connecting the panels, upon which base the bag rests. Each swing panel includes a tab-shaped horizontal upper portion to engage a handle loop of the plastic bag so as to hold it open. Essential freedom from welds dispenses with problems related to failure of the welds. In one particularly preferred embodiment, the wire rack may be collapsed for shipping. It is assembled simply by swinging the panels into mirror-image spaced-apart relationship with each other, and connecting the lower portions of the panels with an impact resistant synthetic resinous support base, preferably by fastener means the heads of which are recessed in the base.

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A wire rack for holding a plastic bag open by its oppositely disposed integral handle loops, so that the bag may be loaded, said wire rack comprising, (a) left and right swing panels, each swing panel comprising a single piece of wire bent to provide (i) a vertical support, (ii) a tab-shaped horizon

A wire rack for holding a plastic bag open by its oppositely disposed integral handle loops, so that the bag may be loaded, said wire rack comprising, (a) left and right swing panels, each swing panel comprising a single piece of wire bent to provide (i) a vertical support, (ii) a tab-shaped horizontal upper portion to engage a handle loop of the bag, (iii) a horizontal lower portion, (iv) an upper angulated support strut portion having a wrap-around-end wrapped around the vertical support, and (v) a lower angulated support strut portion angulated relative to said horizontal lower portion at an angle greater than 45°, said angulated strut portion having a wrap-around-end wrapped around said upper angulated support strut; (b) a spacer frame comprising plural parallel wire members each wire member having wrap-around left and right ends wrapped around the upper portion of each vertical support of said left and right swing panels respectively, so as to maintain the swing panels in vertically-spaced-apart mirror-image relationship with each other; and, (c) a laminar base support means connecting said horizontal lower portions of said swing panels to afford support for the bag.