Patent ID: 6889484
Filing Date: 2005-05-10
Classification: A01F,C05F,Y02P,Y02W

Abstract:
1. A method for the filling and treatment of material in a bag which comprises: mounting an open end of a large flexible bag and a gathered portion of the bag onto a tunnel portion of a bag filling machine, said tunnel portion having a tunnel exterior and tunnel interior defining a tunnel length and open tunnel end, filling the bag through the open tunnel end with material to be stored and treated during storage, and said filling including the progressive deployment of the gathered portion of the bag, during the bag filling process directing a perforated conduit through a feed tube mounted on the tunnel and extended from the tunnel exterior to the tunnel interior and along a substantial length of the tunnel length, to emerge from the feed tube and thereby for placement of the conduit in the material filling the bag, and upon completed filling of the bag providing thereby a perforated conduit extended substantially through the entire length of the bagged material, and connecting the end of the conduit to a media source and flowing a media into and through the conduit to be passed through the conduit perforations and into the length of bagged material, and providing a vent in the bag in a spaced relation to the conduit perforations whereby media flow from the conduit to the vent induces media treatment of the bagged material.