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Abstract

A package for a loaf of bread comprising a flexible, conventional plastic bag which encloses a loaf of bread and a U-shaped support member of cardboard material within the bag and embracing the loaf of bread. The support member presents a base wall which normally underlies the bottom of the loaf and a pair of opposed end flaps attached to the base wall and extending normally vertically therefrom whereby the support member is generally U-shaped in configuration to embrace the loaf of bread therewithin. The end flaps are each adjacent a corresponding end of the plastic bag and it is desirable that one end of the bag be of a transparent material whereby the outer surface of the end flap of the support member adjacent the transparent end of the bag may be viewed through said transparent end and any indicia which might be placed on the outer surface of said end flap be read through the end of the bag. The end flaps are each of a height and width substantially coincident with the height and width of the adjacent end of the loaf of bread and the base wall is coextensive in length and substantially coextensive in width with the loaf of bread, all to the end that the loaf of bread is supported by and embraced within the support member. The support member may be utilized to withdraw the loaf of bread and the member from the bag after the closure end of the bag has been opened or, in the alternative, the support member may be withdrawn after the closure end of the bag has been opened and therethrough, by grasping and quickly jerking the adjacent end flap of the support member, whereby to pull the support member through the opened end of the bag.

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