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(11) EP 0 156 627 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
01.04.1987 Bulletin 1987/14

(43) Date of publication A2:
02.10.1985 Bulletin 1985/40

(21) Application number: 85301956

(22) Date of filing: 21.03.1985
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 22.03.1984 US 592602
30.07.1984 US 635836

(71) Applicant: SCHOLLE CORPORATION
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(72) Inventors:
  • Lloyd-Davies, William T.
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  • Scholle, William R.
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(54) Vacuum bag fluid flow guide


(57) An elongated strip of plastics in a flexible bag guides liquid in the bag to the bag outlet when a vacuum is applied to the outlet. The flow guide has structure which forms a plurality of interconnected spaces that in turn form flow paths in combination with the bag collapsing walls. The guide can take many forms including a net-like configuration, a pattern of alternate recesses and projections on each face of a strip, woven material, open cell sponge like material bouched randomly oriented fibres, material having spaced air bubbles between strips of plastic, or other such structures that can form flow paths in combination with bag wall Also disclosed is a stretched flexible tube havmg a spiral slot formed therein to serve as a flow guide Methods of making the bags and guides are further disclosed







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