Method and apparatus for handling tobacco and other bulk goods
AssigneeUniversal Protector Corporation
InventorsEstace L. Morgan, Alvin R. Tilley
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Abstract
The present invention entails a method and apparatus for handling tobacco wherein a sheet is provided with sleeves formed in opposite corners thereof with the other two corners of the sheet being left with free corner ends. Once tobacco or other bulk material is placed on the sheet then the free corner ends are threaded through respective sleeves and then tied into a suitable knot thereby forming a sheet-like container bound around the tobacco or other material. Thereafter, the package or containerized material can be handled and even lifted by grasping the free end knot.
Claims9
A method of handling and containerizing tobacco for shipment from the farm to market and then to processing, comprising the steps of:
- a) filling the central portion of a flexible sheet with tobacco;
- b) threading one corner of the sheet through a sleeve formed in a first adjacent sleeve corner;
- c) threading a second corner of the sheet through a sleeve formed in a second adjacent sleeve corner;
- d) pulling the first and second corners through the respective sleeves and pulling the sheet up around the tobacco so as to generally wrap the sheet around the tobacco so as to contain the tobacco within a sleeve sheet;
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- e) securing the first and second corners together so as to containerize and secure the tobacco within the sleeve sheet.
A sheet structure for encompassing, holding and supporting bulk material such as bulk tobacco, comprising in a tie configuration:
- a sheet structure having four corners portions with a pair of sleeves formed in opposite corner portions and a pair of free ends existing in the remaining two corner portions;
- one free corner end being extended completely through adjacent sleeve and pulled therethrough leaving one free corner end clear of the sleeve but confined by the sleeve;
- the other free end being extended completely through the other adjacent sleeve and pulled therethrough leaving the other free end clear of the adjacent other sleeve but confined by the adjacent other sleeve;
- the two free ends being secured together so as to hold the entire sheet in a wrapped configuration around the bulk material and wherein the secured free ends form a connector for a hoist and wherein the sheet and bulk material are held with the free corner ends of the sheet and the pair of sleeves wherein the secured free corner ends are connected to a hoist and lifted.
A method of handling and containerizing bulk material, comprising the steps of:
- a) filling the central portion of a flexible sheet with bulk material;
- b) threading one corner of the sheet through a sleeve formed in a first adjacent sleeve corner;
- c) threading a second corner of the sheet through a sleeve formed in a second adjacent sleeve corner;
- d) pulling the first and second corners through the respective sleeves and pulling the sheet up around the bulk material so as to generally wrap the sheet around the bulk material so as to contain the bulk material within a sleeve sheet;
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- e) securing the first and second corners together so as to containerize and secure the bulk material within the sleeve sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.