Abstract: The present invention is a liquid-in-box container. A liquid-in-box container in accordance with the present invention may comprise: (a) a box; (b) a liquid-containing receptacle; (c) a spout; (d) a spout outlet aperture; (e) a first hand-hold aperture; (f) a second hand-hold aperture; (g) a third hand-hold aperture; and (h) a fourth hand-hold aperture.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for storing gases and liquids having a high trans-migration rate through containment surfaces due to their molecular size. An inner pressurized retaining enclosure for the storage of gas and liquids has a second enclosure wall about the first enclosure defining a gap between the respective enclosure surfaces which is filled with a containment gas or liquid having a molecular size greater than the porosity of the storage wall and stored gas or liquid. The containment gas effectively impedes the transmission of the storage gas and liquid through the first inner pressure retainer enclosure by creating a pressure barrier on its outer surface.

Abstract: The invention concerns a fitment apparatus which includes: a flange having first opening; at least one projection assembly containing at least one second opening in which the projection assembly is attached to the flange such that said first opening and said second opening form a channel; and at least one engagement structure mounted on the projection assembly for detachably securing the fitment apparatus to an interface. The invention also concerns an interchangeable fitment system which includes: a container; and an interface detachably engaged to the container in which the interface has a notch having predetermined dimensions for receiving a first fitment apparatus and a second fitment apparatus. The first and second fitment apparatuses each have an opening corresponding to the predetermined dimensions in which the perimeter of the opening of the second fitment apparatus is not equal to the perimeter of the opening of the first fitment apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for transporting and/or storing an especially liquid medium, which comprises a relatively thin-walled plastic inner container (1) that receives the medium and an outer container (4) that encloses the inner container like a trough. At the top, said inner container (1) is provided with a filling opening that is configured as a threaded tube (2), and at the bottom, if required, with a drain opening (3). The outer container (4) consists of a pallet-type support (5) that supports the inner container (1) on its underside and a jacket (6) that adjoins the support (5). The inner container (1) is secured in the outer container (4) by means of a cover plate (8) fastened on the outer container (4).

Abstract: A removable conformal liner for a centrifuge container is described. The liner has a flexible or semi-rigid body with an opening for introducing a sample. When the liner is inserted into an internal cavity of a centrifuge container, the body of the liner conforms to the interior cavity. The liner body may be made of a material that is sufficiently resilient to allow a reversible deformation of the body by folding, twisting, collapsing, rolling, or pleating.

Abstract: A positioning mark and a display mark are formed in an inner bag body. An inner bag supply-discharge opening is inserted into a tank supply-discharge opening as the positioning mark conforms to a central line extending in the longitudinal direction of the tank body. A bending line in one end portion that is close to the inner bag supply-discharge opening is set above the display mark. Sine the folding line is away from the inner bag supply-discharge opening, the end portion close to the inner bag supply-discharge opening is not filled with liquid in the early stages of the liquid filling, so that the damage of the inner bag and the filling failure can be eliminated.

Abstract: A pallet container includes a bottle, an enclosure for the bottle as well as a plastic pallet. The enclosure is a grid connected to a plastic pallet by having a lower horizontal circumferential rod received in a laterally opening circumferential groove in the plastic pallet. The rod can be locked through the use of a side plate.

Abstract: A device and process for filling flexible receptacles set on rigid or semi-rigid outer receptacles, includes, prior to usage, rolling up a flexible receptacle having upper loading and lower unloading mouths, and fitting a wrapping around the rolled-up receptacle; and during usage, fitting the flexible receptacle in a rigid or semi-rigid outer receptacle such that the lower unloading mouth of the flexible receptacle is positioned in a lower recess of the rigid or semi-rigid receptacle, fitting an upper bridge having a slot on the outer receptacle to control unfolding of the flexible receptacle during a filling operation, fitting the loading mouth in a corresponding support of the upper bridge, fitting surplus flexible material of the flexible receptacle in the slot in the upper bridge, and connecting an outer unloading conduit with the loading mouth of the flexible recipient to fill the flexible recipient with a material.

Abstract: A combination travel and laundry bag (10) comprises a main compartment having a substantially parallelepiped shape with a top side (16), a bottom side (20), a front side (12), a rear side (40), a left side (14), and a right side (18), a first opening that is selectively closed for providing access to the main compartment as a travel bag on at least one side selected from the group of the front side, the left side, and the right side, and an opening on the top side that is selectively closed, wherein at least a first meshed bag is selectively attached to portions of the periphery of the top side.

Abstract: A sample container for minimizing evaporation of a contained volume of sample includes a container housing, a repuncturable self-sealing membrane, and a collapsible sample bag. The container housing includes an open end and a hollow interior region. The repuncturable self-sealing membrane configured to self-seal after repeated punctures is engaged in the open end of the container housing and includes an exterior surface exposed to the external environment and an interior surface oriented toward the hollow interior region of the container housing. The collapsible sample bag includes a proximate end that is permanently attached to the interior surface of the repuncturable self-sealing membrane.

Abstract: A system and method for packing agricultural produce including functionality for: providing a container having at least one communications aperture formed in a wall thereof; providing at least one flexible controlled permeability bag within the container; providing at least one bag aperture in the at least one flexible controlled permeability bag in general registration with the at least one communications aperture; sealing the produce inside the at least one flexible controlled permeability bag within the container, while leaving the at least one bag aperture and the at least one communications aperture open; providing atmosphere treatment within the at least one bag via the at least one bag aperture and the at least one communications aperture; and sealing at least one of the at least one bag aperture and the at least one communications aperture.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for aseptic biological production of cells and/or microorganisms are provided. The apparatus includes a support housing having an interior chamber, a disposable flexible sterile plastic liner lining the interior chamber and a head plate attached to the liner forming a sealed chamber with the liner to form a reservoir. After use the liner can be thrown away and the apparatus can be reused with a new liner. In this way, the apparatus simplifies cleaning and ensuring validation required by pharmaceutical and food industry standards. Aerating fluid is introduced during culturing of cell or microorganisms in the reservoir. A growth characteristic can be used to vary flow rate and/or composition of the aerating fluid. Another reservoir may be used for circulation between two reservoirs.

Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids includes a pallet-like underframe of electrically conductive material for supporting an exchangeable inner container of plastics material with four side walls, a lower and an upper bottom, a closeable fill socket integrally formed with the upper bottom and an outlet socket with a removal fitting integrally formed at a lower portion of a side wall, an outer casing formed of vertically and horizontally extending metal crate rods, and a single-piece or multi-piece support insert with four side walls of an electrically conductive material arranged between the inner container and the outer casing. Wall elements of the support insert are provided with a structure having a plurality of adjacent structure elements, such as hexagons, circles, honeycombs, trapezoids, lozenges, squares and rectangles.

Abstract: A container for storing, handling and transporting bulk material is disclosed. The container comprises a flexible bag which has a top portion provided with a filling inlet for filling the bag, and a bottom portion provided with a discharging outlet for discharging the bag. The container also comprises a frame for supporting and containing the bag and several stretchable bands connected to the frame for upwardly and resiliently biasing side walls of the bag. The biasing mechanism is automatically engaged during the unloading process of the bag, thus eliminating practically any human intervention.

Abstract: A slurry container includes an outer surface and a cavity within the outer surface. Slurry is deposited in the cavity of the container and subsequently used for a variety of different purposes. Air pockets occurring within the cavity of the container are reduced in order to regulate particle size of the slurry.

Abstract: A treatment tank for a water conditioning apparatus includes a tank head with a wall with an interior surface and a noncircular rim that defines a first through hole in the wall. A generally cylindrical flange defines a first aperture and has a first nipple portion with a periphery and a noncircular portion radially extending from the periphery of the nipple portion. The noncircular portion is configured to matingly engage the noncircular rim so that contact between the noncircular rim and the noncircular portion prevents rotation of the flange relative to the tank head. A first fastener is engageable on the first nipple portion to secure the flange on the tank head through contact between the fastener and the tank head.

Abstract: A rectangular inspection side panel for a container for housing a clear plastic liner bag for holding a liquid, with the rectangular inspection side panel including a segment extending substantially the entire height of the rectangular inspection side panel and being sufficiently transparent for allowing a level of a liquid in a clear plastic liner bag to be visible. The segment is able to be moved and is mounted in the rectangular inspection side panel for allowing replacement of the segment. A perimeter frame having two elongated side members is joined at respective ends by upper and lower edge members with a covering fixed to the perimeter frame and having an opaque covering sheet covering a majority portion of the perimeter frame with the segment covering the remainder of the perimeter frame.

Abstract: A flexible, water impervious liner is fitted in a rigid outer shell. The shell has an open top with a peripheral flange over which a top lip of the liner is fitted. A separate top plate attaches to the flange with standard fasteners for clamping the liner to the shell. Through hull fittings are provided for heating elements at the side and inlet/outlet fittings at the top. The construction allows convenient access to virtually all components of the water heater, including the liner and the heating elements, so that they can be quickly and easily serviced or replaced. A desired amount of insulation can be provided by an appropriate cover or blanket to surround the outer shell.

Abstract: A transport and storage container for liquids has a flexible inner container of an inner envelope of plastic material and an outer envelope of a woven material. The container also has a cage of crossing horizontal and vertical cage rods of metal as well as a pallet underframe of metal. The flexible inner container is suspended from cover rods connected at the upper frame of the cage of the transport container. The outflow socket of the inner container is detachably connectable with a holding device on the cage of the transport container.

Abstract: A waste container assembly is provided. The assembly includes an inner can with a closed bottom and an open top. A waste can liner can be placed in the inner can and the free edge of the liner can be folded over the open top of the inner can. The assembly further includes an outer enclosure that is telescoped around the inner can to conceal the inner can, the waste can liner and the contents of the waste can liner. For smaller cans, the outer enclosure has a unitary peripheral skirt and cover that can be telescoped over the inner can. Larger assemblies may have a separate cover and peripheral skirt. A lid is hinged to the cover and can be opened by a slight downward force on an inner portion of the lid. However, the lid is gravitationally biased to return to a closed condition.

Abstract: An insulated container for shipping, transporting, or storing warm or cold items is disclosed, useful for maintaining temperature of items stored or shipped within the container, the container assembly consisting of at least one layer of rigid or semi-rigid material, and at least one layer of flexible, thermally insulating, water-resistant material, in the form of a pouch, which pouch is secured to the rigid material at areas which allow easy reconfiguration of the container to form a finished container having desirable insulating and water-resistant characteristics.

Abstract: An inspection side panel (5) for a container (1) to house a clear plastic film liner bag adapted to hold a liquid, the side panel (5) includes a demountable transparent inspection segment (14) extending for substantially the whole height of the side panel (5).

Abstract: A container inner bag mounted in a freight container and filled with a large amount of content, which is made of a synthetic resin sheet and has an elongated rectangular parallelepiped shape and a pentahedral or hexahedral structure. The elongated rectangular parallelepiped-shaped container inner bag is cut along at least ridge portions formed between the front and rear walls and the left and right side walls. These walls are adapted to be joined and separated along the ridge portions by connecting and separating means such as a fastener, respectively. The front wall has, at the upper portion, a cut portion adapted to form a content insertion opening through which the content is filled into the bag, and, at the lower portion, a cut portion adapted to form a content takeout opening through which the content is taken out from the bag. These cut portions are adapted to be joined and separated by connecting and separating means such as a fastener, respectively.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for aseptic biological production or processing of cells, tissues and/or microorganisms is provided. The apparatus includes a support housing having an interior chamber, a disposable liner lining the interior chamber and a head plate attached to the liner forming a sealed chamber with the liner. After use the liner can be disposed and the apparatus can be reused with a new liner. In this way, the apparatus simplifies cleaning and ensuring validation required by pharmaceutical and food industry standards.

Abstract: An apparatus for holding a flat bag made of a gas-tight flexible material, to be filled with a fluid has an apparatus hollow space that is limited by a concavely cylindrically curved fixed side wall surface for a flat application of the flat bag, and two fixed front wall surfaces that face one another and are each convexly curved, for an inward bending of edge sides, positioned opposite one another, of the bag lying flat against the side wall surface.

Abstract: A common metal drum is used in an upside down orientation and has a drum liner system installed through the designated bottom surface thereof. The drum liner system comprises an adapter mounted through the designated bottom surface. The adapter has a relatively large opening through which the liner is easily installed and the drum can be easily inspected and repaired. In another aspect, the adapter and a liner collar share a common thread, and a cover is mountable over this common thread. The thread portion on the liner collar is selectively movable relative to the thread portion on the adapter to cause a locknut effect therebetween and to retain the cover on the adapter and the liner collar. In a further aspect, a drum liner is bonded to the liner collar and is folded inside the liner collar. A hermetic wrapper is stretched around the liner collar and the drum liner.