Bag folding apparatus

An apparatus for providing bags made from a flimsy material in an aligned configuration with a receiving means for final folding and packaging operations, comprising:

• supplying means operable for supplying bags each of which has a single fold;
• feeding means operatively coupled to said supplying means and operable for discharging successive single folded bags in free motion in a feed direction with the folded edge of each bag being the leading edge and with each discharged bag having a plurality of corrugated regions comprising grooves aligned in said feed direction and undulations along the transverse direction;
• receiving means operable for receiving said bags from said feeding means and operable for maintaining in each of said bags at least some of said corrugated regions at least until each of said bags stops its movement along said feed direction;
• wherein said receiving means comprises a plurality of upper rods and a plurality of lower rods, said rods being positioned generally along said feed direction and with respect to at least some of said corrugated regions to maintain said corrugated regions at least during the movement of each of said bags;
• and
• a fence near said receiving means for stopping the movement of each of said bags along said feed direction.