Built-in fluidizing system for liner-bags transporting hard-to-flow dry solid bulk commodities in marine shipping container or other freight type containers

Abstract

A dry bulk commodities cargo fluidizing system, composed of foldable flat non-interfering air bed, built into liner bags, used in shipping containers for transporting commodities, as a second-floor in the liner bag. The fluidizing is enhanced by sandwiching plastic mesh strips of varying width across the floor of the container into compartments by thermal sealing both floor layers to form air chambers. These individual air chambers form manifolds to maximize the uniform air bed effect and prevent spotty pressure loss. Air is injected from an air hose into the plastic mesh strip chambers to create fluidization effect by multiple pinholes on the top floor layer. These holes can vary in number and density across the length of the strips with a higher density of pinholes toward the end of the strip, and the lower density pinholes toward the beginning of the strip closest to the air hose.

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