Bulk bag support for filling

Details Bulk bag support for filling Bulk bag support for filling

1996-05-07

1998-08-04

Recla, Henry J.

Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea

Filling means with receiver or receiver coacting means

Flexible or collapsible receiver

141114, 248100, B65B 104

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057879451

ABSTRACT:
A bulk bag support for filling wherein the bulk bag has plural handles spaced around a top perimeter thereof. The support includes a frame and an elevatable mounting platform mounted on the frame. A plurality of spaced, openable and closeable support hooks are provided on the mounting platform and are selectively activatable for movement between opened and closed positions for selectively gripping and releasing the aforesaid handles. The support hooks, when in the closed position, releasably grip the handles thereby causing the bulk bag to be suspended from the support hooks and, when lifted, above a base member of the frame and to facilitate is filling of the bulk bag. When the support hooks are in the opened position, the handles on the bulk bag are thereby released causing the bulk bag to rest on the aforesaid base member. A yieldable biassing spring is provided for continually urging the support hooks toward the closed position.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5036893 (1991-08-01), Decrane
patent: 5056571 (1991-10-01), Derby
patent: 5259425 (1993-11-01), Johnson
patent: 5348063 (1994-09-01), Handleman
patent: 5400837 (1995-03-01), Kelley et al.

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