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Underwater Lift Bag Pontoon Style
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The Canflex Heavy Duty Air Inflated underwater lift bags products are used world-wide for raising sunken objects, vessel salvage, marine structure stabilization, under water equipment transport, pipeline and equipment towing, and standby emergency buoyancy.

The Pontoon Style underwater lift bags are cilindrical shaped units completely equipped including the appropriate quantity of automatic air relief valves, certify lift harness with shackles, and fill ports.

Canflex Pontoon lift bags features:

  • Made of high tenacity TPU/PVC coated polyester fabric (48 to 88 oz/y2).
  • All seams RF welded
  • Versatile and stable shape.
  • Certify Polyester lift straps treated with special coating to prevent against UV degradation
  • ½” NPT fill port ( other sizes also available)
  • Automatic Air Relief valves
  • Design safety factor 6:1
  • Custom sizes available
  • All products are Manufactured in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard. Canflex (USA) Inc holds certificate No FM 517957
  • Canflex (USA) Inc has voluntary made the addition of IMCA guidelines to all Underwater Lift Bags (IMCA D 016 Rev.3 - June 2007). IMCA promotes improvements in quality, health, safety, environmental and technical standars through the publication of information notes, codes of paractice and by other appropiate means.
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UNDERWATER LIFT BAG PONTOON STYLE – TOTALLY ENCLOSED

MODEL

LIFT CAPACITY

LENGHT

DIAMETER

VOLUME

SHIPPING CUBE

DRY WEIGHT

Kg.

lb.

m

ft-in

m

ft-in

m^3

ft^3

m^3

ft^3

Kg.

lb.

*

ELB-1

1000

2200

1.44

4’-8”

0.97

3’-2”

1.00

35.32

0.15

5.4

27.15

60

*

ELB-2

2000

4400

1.96

6’-5”

1.17

3’-10”

2.00

70.63

0.18

6.5

36.20

80

*

ELB-3

3000

6600

2.00

6’-6”

1.40

4’-7”

3.00

105.95

0.24

8.4

45.25

100

*

ELB-5

5000

11000

3.40

11’-2”

1.40

4’-7”

5.00

176.58

0.40

14.0

60.33

133

*

ELB-8

8000

17600

3.75

12’-4”

1.68

5’-6”

8.00

282.52

0.49

17.3

84.46

186

*

ELB-10

10000

22000

4.10

13’-5”

1.90

6’-2”

10.00

353.15

0.57

20.0

120.65

266

**

ELB-15

15000

33000

4.30

14’-1”

2.15

7’-0”

15.00

529.73

0.85

30.0

193.05

426

**

ELB-20

20000

44000

4.51

14’-10”

2.43

8’-0”

20.00

706.30

1.81

64.0

229.24

505

**

ELB-25

25000

55000

4.82

15’-10”

2.68

8’-10”

25.00

882.88

1.81

64.0

277.51

612

***

ELB-35

35000

77000

6.52

21’-5”

2..68

8’-10”

35.00

1236.03

1.81

64.0

331.80

732

****

ELB-50

50000

110000

8.38

27’-6”

2.92

9’-7”

50.00

1765.75

2.27

80.0

633.44

1397

****

ELB-60

60000

132000

9.14

30’-0”

3.08

10’-0”

60.00

2118.88

2.30

82.0

680.39

1500

NOTE: All capacities are based on fresh water, 100 Kg/m3 (62.4 lbs/ft3)

         1000 Kg = 1 Metric Tonne = 2205 lbs; 1 Short Ton = 2000 lbs; 1 Long Tonne = 2240 lbs

MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS: “High Tenacity Polyester Fabric – Polyurethane PVC blend coated fabric”

(*)         13.00 oz. fabric coated to total weight 48 oz/yd2 (1622 g/m2). Tensile Strength 924 lbs/in (8090 N/5cm)

(**)       18.13 oz. fabric coated to total weight 56 oz/yd2 (1884 g/m2). Tensile Strength 1260 lbs/in (11034 N/5cm)

(***)     28.30 oz. fabric coated to total weight 67 oz/yd2 (2278 g/m2). Tensile Strength 1484 lbs/in (13000 N/5cm)

(****)   38.30 oz. fabric coated to total weight 89 oz/yd2 (3024 g/m2). Tensile Strength 2057 lbs/in (18000 N/5cm)

All underwater lift bags are completely equipped including the appropriate quantity of automatic air relief valves with manual dump capability, lift harness of high strength polyester, carry/storage satchel or Marine grade shipping /storage plywood box.