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US 2018/0320818 A1Published application
Dunnage bag suspender
AssigneeSignode Industrial Group LLC
InventorsAnthony K. Beard, Joseph W. Gault
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a dunnage bag suspender configured to suspend a dunnage bag in place before inflation and to hold the dunnage bag such that the dunnage bag can automatically pull free of the dunnage bag suspender during inflation.
Claims20
A dunnage bag suspender comprising:
- a handle;
- a support attached to the handle and having a support longitudinal axis;
- a first suspender that has a first suspender longitudinal axis, wherein the first suspender is movably attached to the support such that the first suspender is movable relative to the support between a first stowed configuration and a first use configuration, wherein when the first suspender is in the first use configuration the first suspender longitudinal axis is transverse to the support longitudinal axis;
- and
- a first dunnage bag attacher attached to the support and configured to releasably attach to a dunnage bag.
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A method of installing a dunnage bag in a space between a first portion of a load and a second portion of a load, the method comprising:
- moving a first suspender of a dunnage bag suspender from a first stowed configuration to a first use configuration;
- releasably attaching a first dunnage bag attacher of the dunnage bag suspender to the dunnage bag;
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- positioning the dunnage bag suspender such that the first suspender rests on a top surface of the first portion of the load and on a top surface of the second portion of the load, the first suspender extends across the space between the first and second portions of the load, and the dunnage bag is positioned in the space between the first and second portions of the load.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.