Patent · US Expired

Auto-expansible cushioning bag

US4232788A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 31, 1979
Grant dateNov 11, 1980
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 31, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/1345
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An auto-expansible cushioning bag constituted by a completely closed envelope of flexible, impervious and transparent material, and by at least two hermetically closed sachets, likewise of flexible, transparent and impervious material, which are integrated into the envelope and contain the ingredients necessary for the production of a foam of polyurethane or the like. The one sachet contains a mixture of polypropylene glycol ("polyol"), activators, water from which CO.sub.2 gas is generated to cause the expansion, and possibly a supplementary inflating agent, such as trichlorofluoromethane, and the other contains an isocyanate.

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