Flexible container with support members
AssigneeB.A.G. Corp.
InventorsBobby Glenn Brown, Bradley Matthew Eisenbarth, Craig Alan Nickell
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Abstract
A baffle-type bulk bag is reinforced with triangular support members positioned in the triangular corners of the bulk bag to facilitate stacking. The bulk bag may include double layer side walls having support panels received therein.
Claims15
In combination with a baffle-type bulk bag comprising side walls extending to corners and baffles extending across the corners for maintaining the bulk bag in a relatively rectangular configuration when filled, the improvement which comprises:
- substantially triangular support members substantially filling the corners of the bulk bag defined by the baffles thereof and having a vertical dimension substantially equal to the vertical dimension of the bulk bag and comprising three substantially planar, substantially rigid panels positioned edge-to-edge in a substantially triangular array and hingedly joined along at least two adjacent edges.
In combination with a baffle-type bulk bag having double layer side wall portions and baffles extending across the corners for maintaining the bulk bag in relatively rectangular configuration when filled, the improvement which comprises:
- substantially triangular support members substantially filling the corners of the bulk bag defined by the baffles and comprising three substantially planar, substantially rigid panels positioned edge-to-edge in a substantially triangular array and hingedly joined along at least two adjacent edges;
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- stiffening members positioned in the double layer portions of the side walls.
A flexible container for receiving, transporting, and storing flowable materials comprising:
- a substantially continuous inner side wall layer;
- a substantially continuous outer side wall layer;
- eight vertical seams joining the inner and outer side wall layers to form baffles extending across corners and double layer side walls extending between the baffles;
- stiffening members within the double layer side walls;
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- substantially triangular support members within the corners and comprising three substantially planar, substantially rigid panels positioned edge-to-edge in a substantially triangular array and hingedly joined along at least two adjacent edges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.