Patent ID: 7207443

Claim:
A bulk bag having flexible side walls; a bottom wall configured to define, with the sidewalls, a generally rectangular shape of bag; and a pair of laterally spaced generally flexible sleeves associated with the bottom wall, wherein each of the flexible sleeves are at least partially defined by the bottom wall and one of the flexible side walls, and wherein each of the flexible sleeves operatively receives a generally rigid tubular element adapted to receive a tine of a forklift truck, in use, and wherein each tubular element has, at one end thereof, outwardly directed flange formations for preventing movement of the said end into the sleeve, in use, and means at the other end for inhibiting movement of said other end into the sleeve, in use, and wherein said outwardly directed flange formations are formed by bends in the thermoplastic material from which the tubular element is made with the bends being at right angles to a length of the tubular shape.