Light weight, strong, fire retardant dunnage platform bag and system of loading, dispensing and using bag
AssigneeAirdex International, Inc.
InventorsVance Seagle, Philip Tschirn
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Abstract
The present invention provides a dunnage platform bag that is light weight, strong, made of a fire retardant material and which forms an ultra violet light, weather and dust particle barrier to protect the integrity of the dunnage platforms when not in use. A system and method for supplying, dispensing, positioning, tracking, transporting, forwarding and storing dunnage platforms based on the dunnage platforms bag is disclosed. In an embodiment of the invention, a modified dunnage platform made up of a dunnage platform base and attached legs can be stored in the dunnage platform bag.
Claims20
A dunnage platform bag system for one or more of loading, dispensing, storing and transporting one or more dunnage platforms comprising:
- (a) the dunnage platform bag consisting of a top and one or more sides;
- (b) one or more opening in the dunnage platform bag for one or more of loading, dispensing and inspecting the one or more dunnage platform stored in the dunnage platform bag;
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- (c) an indexing mechanism that holds the dunnage platform most distant from the top in a position to cover one opening of the dunnage platform bag.
A system of supplying a client with one or more light weight dunnage platform to ship a client's cargo to one or more desired destination comprising:
- (a) selling one or more volume contracts to clients based on one or more factors selected from the group consisting of cargo destinations, freight costs, type of cargo, size of client, importance of client, overall value of service to forwarder and overall value of service to client;
- (b) supplying the one or more light weight dunnage platform in one or more dunnage platform bag at one or more client location, wherein the client dispenses one or more light weight dunnage platform from one or more dunnage platform bag and the client's cargo is loaded on the one or more light weight dunnage platform;
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- (c) shipping the client's cargo loaded on the one or more light weight dunnage platform to the one or more desired destination, wherein the client makes a payment equal to the difference between the reduced freight cost of the light weight dunnage platform and the weight of an alternative heavier dunnage platform.
A system of monitoring location, condition and status of cargo loaded on dunnage platforms comprising:
- (a) supplying one or more dunnage platform bags comprising:
- one or more dunnage platforms including:
- an RFID tag;
- wherein one or both the dunnage platform bag and the dunnage platform further include:
- an RFID tag reader;
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- a portal;
- (b) dispensing one or more dunnage platform from the one or more dunnage platform bag, wherein a base station monitors the number of dunnage platforms available for dispensing and automatically supplies more dunnage platform bags containing one or more dunnage platform as needed;
- (c) loading, shipping and monitoring the cargo on the one or more dispensed dunnage platform;
- (d) relaying the cargo position, condition and status information to a base station;
- (e) unloading the client cargo at the one or more desired destination;
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- (f) storing the one or more empty used dunnage platform in a dunnage platform bag, wherein a base station monitors the number of stored dunnage platforms and automatically picks up dunnage platform bags containing one or more used dunnage platform as needed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.