摘要 |
An apparatus that allows for handling a bulk bag as an invertible container similar to a drum. An adapter assembly is fitted to the bag spout. Perimeter retainer components mount onto a machine designed for inverting a container. The perimeter retainer components secure the perimeter of a bulk bag when it is inverted so that product discharges through an inlet/outlet spout prepared with an adapter assembly. A preferred method involves pre-staging an adapter assembly to a bulk bag disposed in an upright position within a machine designed to invert a container, engaging the bulk bag spout with the adapter assembly, inverting the bulk bag so that bag attachment adapters engage the perimeter retainers and using the adapter assembly with a flow control valve to control the flow of product from the bulk bag.
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