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US 11,453,517 B2Granted
Grocery transport packaging system
AssigneeIfoodbag AB
InventorsCarl Fallgren, Magnus Gimåker
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Abstract
A method of delivering goods, the method comprising the steps of: providing a collapsible carrier bag (20), or providing a collapsible transport container (20), wherein the carrier bag (20) or the transport container (20) is provided in a collapsed state (20A); expanding the collapsible carrier bag or transport container in an environment having a pre-determined condition of the environment; loading chilled or frozen goods into an interior storage space of said transport container or carrier bag; and transporting said loaded transport container (20, 20C) or carrier bag (20, 20C) to a destination (DD).
Claims23
A method of delivering chilled and/or frozen goods in a closable bag, the method comprising:
- receiving an order for an amount of chilled and/or frozen goods;
- providing a closable bag adapted to be used in an air atmosphere environment having an air humidity, wherein the closable bag is collapsible so as to have a collapsed state for enabling transportation of the closable bag in a substantially flat state, and an expanded state such that the closable bag, in its expanded state, provides an interior storage space for transporting chilled and/or frozen goods;
- the closable bag having a wall adapted to enclose said interior storage space, said wall being shaped and folded so as to form a plurality of wall panels including:
- a front wall panel;
- and
- a back wall panel;
- wherein the plurality of wall panels cooperate to form said interior storage space to a volume of between ten and fifty metric litres in the expanded state of the bag;
- wherein said wall comprising:
- (a) a paper layer having a thermal conductivity of less than 0.2 W/(K*m);
- (b) a substantially water vapour impermeable membrane bonded to at least one side of said paper layer;
- and
- (c) a closable opening such that the bag in its closed expanded state seals, or substantially seals, the interior storage space from the environment so as to minimize or prevent entry of air from the environment into the interior storage space, and wherein the method further comprises the steps of:
- packing said ordered amount of chilled and/or frozen goods in said closable bag such that an amount of chilled and/or frozen goods packed in said interior storage space is at least 2 kg;
- closing said closable opening so as to seal said amount of packed chilled and/or frozen goods from said air atmosphere environment, wherein the closable opening, in the closed expanded state of the bag, cooperates with the wall to substantially seal the interior storage space from the environment so as to minimize or prevent entry of said humid air from the environment into the interior storage space so as to eliminate or minimize the occurrence of condensation of vapour on a surface of a piece of chilled and/or frozen goods during transport of said bag in said humid air atmosphere environment such that heat release due to condensation is eliminated or minimized so as to eliminate or minimize condensation heating of said chilled and/or frozen goods during transport;
- and
- transporting the packed, closed and sealed bag to a delivery destination.
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A bag configured to transport chilled and/or frozen goods in an environment of air having an air humidity, wherein the bag comprises:
- a wall configured to enclose an interior storage space;
- wherein the bag is configured to collapse to a collapsed state for enabling transportation of the bag in a substantially flat state, and further configured to an expand in an expanded state to provide said interior storage space;
- said wall configured to form
- a front wall panel, and
- a back wall panel,
- a volume of between ten and fifty metric litres for the interior storage space in the expanded state of the bag;
- wherein said wall comprises:
- (a) a paper layer having a thermal conductivity of less than 0.2 W/(K*m);
- (b) a substantially water vapour impermeable membrane bonded to at least one side of said paper layer;
- and
- (c) a closable opening configured to seal, or substantially seal, the interior storage space from the environment so as to prevent or minimize entry of air from the environment into the interior storage space in a closed expanded state;
- and
- wherein in the closed expanded state, the bag is configured to eliminate or minimize the occurrence of condensation of vapour on a surface of a piece of an amount of packed chilled and/or frozen goods during transport of said bag in said air atmosphere environment such that heat release due to condensation is eliminated or minimized so as to eliminate or minimize condensation heating of said chilled and/or frozen goods during transport.
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A goods transport system comprising:
- a storage facility for goods, the storage facility comprising one or several storage rooms having controlled environments so that an air temperature and a relative humidity of air in a storage room are controlled so that it is kept within certain predetermined ranges;
- wherein the goods comprise a plurality of different types of chilled and/or frozen goods sorted into different temperature ranges, each type of goods being stored in a corresponding storage room having a temperature in accordance with the corresponding goods temperature range;
- at least one closable bag for use in the distribution of said chilled and/or frozen goods in an air atmosphere environment having an air humidity, wherein said at least one closable bag is collapsible so as to have a collapsed and substantially flat state, and an expanded state such that said closable bag, in its expanded state, provides an interior storage space for transporting chilled and/or frozen goods;
- and
- a loading facility for enabling an amount of chilled and/or frozen goods is to be packed into said at least one closable bag;
- wherein such a packed closable bag comprises:
- a wall adapted to enclose said interior storage space, the wall being shaped and adapted to form wall panels including:
- a front wall panel;
- and
- a back wall panel;
- wherein the wall panels cooperate to form said interior storage space to a volume of between ten and fifty metric litres in the expanded state of the bag;
- wherein said wall comprising:
- (a) a paper layer having a thermal conductivity of less than 0.2 W/(K*m);
- (b) a substantially water vapour impermeable membrane bonded to at least one side of said paper layer;
- and
- (c) a closable opening configured to seal, or substantially seal, the interior storage space from the environment so as to prevent or minimize entry of air from the environment into the interior storage space in a closed expanded state;
- and
- wherein in the closed expanded state, the bag is configured to eliminate or minimize the occurrence of condensation of vapour on a surface of a piece of an amount of packed chilled and/or frozen goods during transport of said bag in said air atmosphere environment such that heat release due to condensation is eliminated or minimized so as to eliminate or minimize condensation heating of said chilled and/or frozen goods during transport.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.