Grain bag
AssigneeTanaka Sangyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsMitsunori Taniguchi, Keizo Wajima
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Abstract
A grain bag is comprised of a cylindrical barrel having a lid openable and closable upwardly and a bottom part having an outlet tube at a center of a undersurface thereof, and developed with a flap attached in the vicinity of the outlet tube for shielding the outlet tube, a latch attached to a border of the flap through a contact string, and a latch retainer attached to a side of the barrel for catching the latch enabling engagement and disengagement of the latch and the latch retainer at the side of the barrel. The number of latches and latch retainers varies from one to plural numbers according to a size of a bag. Apart from a latch with a contact string and a latch retainer, looped strings are provided and coupled together by a hook.
Claims2
A grain bag comprising:
- a cylindrical barrel having a lid that is openable and closeable and having an outlet tube on an undersurface of the cylindrical barrel;
- a flap attached to the undersurface of the cylindrical barrel that is movable between an open position to a closed position, the flay shielding the outlet tube when in the closed position;
- a latch operably attached to a border of the flap;
- a latch retainer attached to a side of the barrel for catching the latch thereby enabling engagement and disengagement of the latch and the latch retainer at the side of the barrel;
- a first looped string attached to the side of the cylindrical barrel;
- a second looped string operably attached to the flap;
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- a hook for coupling the first and second looped strings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.