Bags dispenser and bags therefor

A bag dispenser comprising a container and located therein a stack of pre-formed bags and attachment means, the container having an access aperture;

• the bags of the stack each having a body which is formed with opposed front and back walls forming closed sides, a closed base end and an opposite mouth end;
• the bags being retained together in the stack by separable attachment at their mouth ends to the attachment means at lines of weakening;
• each bag having an adhesion portion formed on the front and/or back wall thereof adjacent the mouth end and adjacent one side, the adhesion portions of alternate bags in the stack being formed adjacent respectively opposite sides relative to the next bag in the stack so as to adhere the back wall of one bag to the front wall of the next bag in the region of the adhesion portion, the stack having a transverse bend intermediate the base and mouth ends of the bags whereby at least part of the front walls of the bags are presented towards the access aperture to enable the bag nearest the aperture to be drawn out through the aperture by manual pulling, whereby the friction between the container and the stack of bags and the relative strengths of the lines of weakening and the adhesion portions, upon removal of the uppermost bag in the stack, cause the uppermost bag to be pulled from the container and cause the next bag in the stack partially to be pulled from the container, the adhesion portion between the uppermost bag and the next bag being arranged to fail after part of the next bag has been pulled from the container.