Semi-automatic T-shirt bag opening rack

A semi-automatic bag dispensing system comprising:

• a stack of bags comprising a plurality of bags stacked in alignment, each bag of said stacked bags having front and rear walls joined by side walls, said bags having an open top and a pair of laterally spaced apart upwardly projecting handles, each handle having aligned slits defined therethrough near a side edge of said handles near a top portion of said handles, each bag having detachable tab means projecting upwardly from said open top of each bag between the laterally spaced apart handles, said tab means including a central tab slit defined therethrough and a tab tearing slit formed below said central tab slit, said tab tearing slit traversing substantially the entire width of said central tab means;
• a bagging rack for mounting said stack of bags and readying for loading individual bags from said stacks of bags, said bagging rack comprising:
• a stationary rear wall, said rear wall having two spaced apart hook member attached at a top portion of said rear wall and having a generally upwardly projecting tab receiving member located thereon;
• a planar support base perpendicular to and fixably attached to said stationary rear wall and extending in a forward direction therefrom;
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• a movable frame member movable along a straight line between a first position distant from said stationary rear wall and a second position adjacent to said stationary rear wall, said movable frame member having an upper planar member which is substantially parallel to said stationary rear wall and which has a tacky rubber sheet member fixed to a surface of said upper planar member which faces said fixed rear wall, wherein in use of said bag dispensing system, a stack of said bags is first loaded onto said bagging rack by slipping said central tab slit of said stack of bags over said tab receiving member and by looping said aligned slits in said handles onto said hook members, and after said stack of bags is loaded, moving said movable frame member from said first position to said second position, thereby bringing said tacky rubber sheet member on said upper planar member into contact with and adhering to a portion of a front wall of plastic of a top bag of said stack of bags, and thereafter moving said movable frame member from said second position back to said first position, thereby tearing said handles free from said hook members in the vicinity of said slits in the handles and tearing the top layer of plastic of said top bag at said tab tearing slit, and thereby opening said top bag.