Low discharge anti-incendiary flexible intermediate bulk container

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5679449
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08457441

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A system with reduced electrostatic discharge including woven fabric configured into a flexible container and having sufficient electrical resistivity to allow discharges of energy from the fabric of below about one-hundred nanocoulombs when the fabric is charged to more than about negative ten thousand volts. The flexible fabric container with a reduced potential for incendiary discharge may further include quasi-conductive fibers or a combination of quasi-conductive fibers and an antistatic coating. The quasi-conductive fibers further may be woven into the fabric. The present invention also discloses a method for reducing electrostatic discharge in ungrounded type flexible fabric container systems by providing a flexible fabric container made from woven fabric and adjusting the electric resistivity of the woven fabric to allow the flow of electricity through the fabric at a rate allowing discharges at below about one-hundred nanocoulombs when the fabric is charged at more than about negative ten kilovolts.

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TEXENE LLC2540 WEST FIFTH NORTH STREET SUMMERVILLE SC 29483

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Ebadat, Vahid Lawrenceville, NJ 3 54
Milner, George M Summerville, SC 3 54
Pappas, Robert J Mt. Pleasant, SC 6 257

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