IP Library Granted Patent US 10,099,913
Granted Patent B2
US 10,099,913 · App. 15/277,302 · Granted Oct 16, 2018

Sump base dispensing system for bulk bin and bag combination

Inventor: Elmar Oostveen (Amsterdam, NL)
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
B67D3/0067B65D77/061B65D77/065
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Patent No.
US 10,099,913
App. No.
15/277,302
Granted
Oct 16, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sump base dispensing system for dispensing a flowable material includes a bulk bin container having a bottom wall and a plurality of upstanding side walls foldably joined to the bottom wall to form an interior space. One of the plurality of the side walls includes a dispensing opening. A cassette is configured to be disposed into the interior space bulk bin container and is positioned within the bottom wall of the bulk bin container. The cassette includes a product bag having a respective inlet and outlet ports used for respective filling and dispensing the flowable material from the product bag. A sump base dispensing apparatus is configured to be attached to the product bag via a dispensing fitment so as to assist in removing the flowable material residual through the dispensing fitment by gravity force.

Claims (22)

1. A system for dispensing a flowable material comprising:

a bulk bin container having a bottom wall and a plurality of upstanding side walls foldably joined to the bottom wall to form an interior space and wherein one of the plurality of the side walls includes a dispensing opening; and

a cassette being configured to be disposed into the interior space and being positioned on the bottom wall of the bulk bin container, the cassette comprises

a product bag having a respective inlet and outlet ports used for respective filling and dispensing the flowable material from the product bag, and

a sump base dispensing apparatus being configured to be attached to the product bag via a dispensing fitment so as to assist in removing the flowable material through the dispensing fitment by gravity force,

the sump base dispensing apparatus includes a sump tray and a locking bracket that is used to securely hold in place the dispensing fitment and

an integrated locking tongue defined by a hinge line formed on an upper portion of a front wall of the sump tray wherein the hinge line permits the locking bracket and the dispensing fitment to fold back and lay down inside of the interior space of the sump tray.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the bottom wall of the bulk bin container includes a recess formed therein for mounting the sump base dispensing apparatus thereto.

3. The system of claim 1 further comprising a lock nut used to attach the sump base dispensing apparatus to the bulk bin container.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the cassette further comprising a foldable cassette board tray that is used to receive both of the product bag and the sump base dispensing apparatus therein.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the product bag and the sump base dispensing apparatus are concealed inside the cassette when the foldable cassette board tray is in a folded or knocked down position.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein the product bag is adhesively attached to the foldable cassette board tray.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the sump tray includes a base having respective upstanding side, front and back walls each of which integrally attached to the base to form an interior space.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the side walls and the back wall includes a mounting surface extending outwardly from top edges, the side walls, and the back wall around a rim or perimeter of the interior space of the sump tray and wherein the mounting surface is used to securely hold the sump tray in a hanging-down position from the bulk bin container.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the integrated locking tongue includes a concave cutout defining a first support surface configured to support the dispensing fitment.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the integrated locking tongue further includes two knobs each of which is formed on opposed sides of the concave cutout that are used to lock the locking bracket to the sump tray.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the two respective knobs on the integrated locking tongue are inserted to the respective apertures.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the integrated locking tongue further includes an arc member formed underneath of the concave cutout used to engage with the lock nut so that the sump base dispensing apparatus is attached to the bulk bin container.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the locking bracket is defined by a back plate having a threaded ring projected outwardly thereof and wherein the threaded ring is engaged with a lock nut to attach the sump base dispensing apparatus to the bulk bin container.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the back plate includes a convex cutout defining a second support surface and wherein the second support surface is configured to securely hold the dispensing fitment.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the back plate includes two apertures each of which is formed on opposed sides of the convex cutout that are used to lock the locking bracket to the sump tray.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the back plate includes two respective grooves each of which is integrally formed on opposed lower edges thereof and wherein the respective two grooves are used to receive the respective opposed sides of the integrated locking tongue.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 19, 2017
From: QBIG PACKAGING B.V.
To: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
Reel/Frame 041016/0910 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 17, 2017
From: OOSTVEEN, ELMAR
To: QBIG PACKAGING B.V.
Reel/Frame 040991/0808 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62233613 · Sep 28, 2015
Related Publication 20170088411A1 · Mar 30, 2017