Medical pouches and a method of manufacturing such pouches

A method of manufacturing a series of pouches in roll form from two separate web materials, said method comprising in order the following steps:

• (a) cutting in the first of said webs at least one notch at regular spaced intervals along the web length;
• (b) bonding the second web to the first web in a plurality of zones located between the notches of said first web so as to form a plurality of pouches having two closed sidewalls and one closed end wall and with all of the pouches oriented in the same direction;
• and
• (c) cutting said notched first web along a plurality of transverse lines, each of which passes through substantially the center of one of said notches and simultaneously, along a plurality of transverse lines aligned substantially with said cut lines of said first notched web, cutting said second web along the line portions overlying the unnotched portions of said first notched web and serrating said second web along the line portions overlying the notched portions of said first notched web.