Flexible bag
AssigneeGlobal Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC
InventorCOLIN R. TUOHEY
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Abstract
A flexible bioprocess bag comprising a number of flexible panels which are sealed to each other such that when the bag is filled they form at least a bottom of the bag and a side surface of the bag, wherein one of the flexible panels is called a bottom panel and when the bag is filled said bottom panel will constitute the bottom of the bag and parts of the side surface of the bag, said parts of the side surface being bent side parts of the bottom panel.
Claims18
A flexible bioprocess bag comprising:
- a number of flexible panels which are sealed to each other;
- wherein one of the number of flexible panels is a bottom panel, comprising a quadrilateral middle part having two opposite first side edges substantially the same length as a diameter of a cylinder substantially matching a form of a side surface of the bag when the flexible bioprocess bag is filled and placed within a cylindrical bioreactor vessel, said bottom panel further comprising two triangular parts, each connected along their bases to one of the first side edges of the middle part,
- wherein the two first side edges of the middle part where the bases of the triangular parts are connected are shorter than two remaining side edges, called second side edges of the middle part,
- wherein the two second side edges are curved such that a circle having the same diameter as a cylinder substantially matching the form of the side surface of the bag when the bag is filled and placed within the cylindrical bioreactor vessel still fits inside the middle part, and
- when the flexible bioprocess bag is filled said bottom panel will constitute the bottom of the bag and parts of the side surface of the bag, said parts of the side surface being bent side parts of the bottom panel.
A method of loading a flexible bioprocess bag in a cylindrical bioreactor or mixer, comprising the steps of:
- providing a cylindrical bioreactor or mixer vessel;
- providing the flexible bioprocess bag of claim 21;
- loading said flexible bioprocess bag in said cylindrical bioreactor or mixer vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.