Patent ID: 6572942
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: B65D,D02G,D03D,Y10T

Abstract:
A flexible container for bulk material, consisting of a flexible carrying bag and attached carrying devices, wherein at least the carrying bag is made of an antistatic fabric that includes electrically non-conducting warp and weft threads and static dissipative, antistatic threads, wherein the antistatic threads are made of a thermoplastic synthetic with an additive mixed in that reduces electrostatic resistivity, said additive comprising a thermoplastic, heat-hardened or webbed polymer that is penetrated by an antistatic web of microcrystalline pins, whereby the antistatic threads are arrangeable in the fabric in both an intersecting and non-intersecting manner, whereby the carrying bag is both groundable and ungroundable, and whereby an antistatic coating is optionally coated to the fabric.