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US 6,205,750 B1Granted
Method for packaging bulk goods and a container for bulk goods
AssigneeUpm-Kymmene Corporation
InventorsErkki Koskinen, Tom Stenmark
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Abstract
A method for packaging bulk goods into an intermediate bulk container including the steps of placing an inner package made of a flexible resilient material onto a base, providing the inner package with a reinforcement structure in an interior thereof, filling the interior of the inner package with bulk goods whereby the inner package obtains substantially the shape of a parallelepiped, and then surrounding the inner package with an outer package made of a plastic material to provide stability.
Claims1
Method for packaging bulk goods into an intermediate bulk container, comprising the steps of:
- forming an inner package with an integral reinforcement structure to provide said inner package with a substantially parallelepiped shape upon filling with bulk goods, said inner package being made of a non-self-supporting, flexible resilient material and said reinforcement structure being made of a non-self-supporting material,
- placing said inner package on a base,
- filling the interior of said inner package with bulk goods whereby said inner package obtains the parallelepiped shape, and
- surrounding said parallelepiped-shaped, filled inner package with an outer package made of a forming said outer package by winding a tightening-foil band around said inner package and at least a portion of said base plastic material to provide stability.
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