Bag with a bag wall designed to dissolve in a moist environment and use of the bag as a cement bag

• US 8,851,752 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2011
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mondi AG (Mondi PLC)
• Original Assignee: Mondi AG (Mondi PLC)
• Inventors: Wichmann, Hans-Joachim
• Primary Examiner(s): Pascua, Jes F
• Application Number:
  US13/170,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20110315272A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• Field of Search: 383/1, 383/44, 383/125, 383/126, 383/109, 366/2
• US Class Current: 383/1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 31/142 the filling port being formed by folding a flap connected to a side, e.g. block bottoms
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 65/46 Applications of disintegrable, dissolvable or edible materials
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 5/076 Specially adapted packagings therefor, e.g. for dosing

Abstract

A bag, consisting of a single-layer or multi-layer bag wall, which is bonded to form a tube (1) and, at least at one end, has a bottom (4) which is suitable for filling with charge through a filler of a bag-filling machine, is folded and bonded and is realized with a valve opening (13), and said bag wall being designed to dissolve in a moist environment thereby releasing the charge, makes complete dissolving of the bag wall (2) possible even in the region of the bottom (4) which is provided with the valve opening (13), characterized in that the bonding of the bottom (4) is effected using a dextrin adhesive.

Claims

1. A bag comprising:

a single-layer or multi-layer bag wall, which is bonded to form a tube wherein at least one end of said tube has a bottom that is suitable for filling with charge through a filler of a bag-filling machine,

wherein said bottom is folded and bonded with dextrin adhesive that is maltodextrin having a dextrose equivalent of 4.5 to 8.5,

wherein at least one end of said tube includes a valve opening, and

wherein said bag wall is made from a material which dissolves in a moist environment to release the charge.

2. The bag according to claim 1, wherein said bottom includes bottom flaps which overlap by a maximum of 1 cm and are covered by a bottom cover sheet, said bottom flaps are configured for folding to form the bottom, and wherein the valve opening is between the bottom flaps and the bottom cover sheet.

3. The bag according to claim 1, further comprising bottom flaps which overlap above a corner tuck of the bottom and together with the corner tuck form the valve opening.

4. The bag according to claim 1, wherein said valve opening does not include a folded valve sheet.

5. The bag according to claim 2 wherein a width of the bottom cover sheet is greater than that of the bottom and said bottom cover sheet extends over a bottom fold line to an adjacent bag wall.

6. A method of making concrete, comprising the steps of:

obtaining cement in a bag

having a single-layer or multi-layer bag wall, which is bonded to form a tube wherein at least one end of said tube has a bottom that is suitable for filling with charge through a filler of a bag-filling machine,

wherein said bottom is folded and bonded with dextrin adhesive that is maltodextrin having a dextrose equivalent of 4.5 to 8.5,

wherein at least one end of said tube includes a valve opening, and

wherein said bag wall is made from a material which dissolves in a moist environment to release the charge; and

dissolving the bag wall in a concrete mixing machine with water and sand as aggregates.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein said dissolving step includes gravel as a further aggregate.