Method and apparatus for opening a packaging bag

摘要

An outermost packaging bag (2) of an ordered store (1) of flat-laid bags made of flexible plastic foil is opened by a vacuum being selectively applied during restraint of the bag (2) against the store (1) for suction and lifting free of a local area (12) of the outward wall (4) of the bag without movement of the opposite inward bag wall. The area (12) lifted free is restrained by clamping so that at release of its restraint against the bag store, the outward bag side (4) can be moved away from the inward wall. <IMAGE>