Bag opening and reclosing device

A sealing apparatus for releasably closing flexible bags, sacks, tubes and similar flexible containers, the sealing apparatus comprising:

• a) a longitudinally elongated body member having a longitudinal bag-receiving slot therethrough, the slot extending from a point spaced inwardly of one longitudinal end of the body through the opposite terminal end of the body, thereby forming two spaced apart, opposite finger members between which a portion of a flexible bag can be received so that rotation of the body member in one direction about its longitudinal axis wraps a desired portion of the bag into a tight roll about the opposite finger members of the body member and subsequent rotation of the body member in the opposite direction unwraps the rolled portion of a bag from about the opposite finger members of the body member, and
• b) securing means mounted on the body member configured to releasably engage the outermost wrapping of a bag rolled about the opposite finger members of the body member for preventing loosening and unwrapping of the roll, said securing means comprising an elongated tension member mounted on one end of the body member and configured to be drawn over the outermost wrapping of a bag rolled about the opposite finger members of the body member and be secured releasably under tension to the opposite end portion of the body member, the tension member overlying the outermost wrapping of the bag roll in tensioned engagement therewith to prevent loosening and unwrapping of the roll.