Receptacles – Including means for limiting the discharge or spread of...
Patent
1998-04-15
1999-09-28
Castellano, Stephen
Receptacles
Including means for limiting the discharge or spread of...
220571, 220 7, 220 416, 220 2388, B65D 2102
Patent
active
059573228
ABSTRACT:
A storage container for barrels of liquid such as fuel arranged on their sides has a rigid base which is rectangular in plan to define two side edges and two end edges and dimensioned in width between side edges to receive a length of a barrel lying on its side across the width and in length between the end edges to receive a plurality of barrels side by side. The base has a bottom closed wall and four upstanding walls each at a respective edge of the bottom wall so as to define a sump to receive liquid from one or more of the barrels in the event of leakage. Across the top of the base is a pair of straps and end flanges to allow rolling of the barrels across the base. The container has two side walls and two end walls. Both of the end walls being hinged at a bottom edge for movement to an open ramp position to allow the barrels to be rolled into and out of the container. A cover panel which can be moved from a flat collapsed condition in which the sides a folded down to an operating condition attached to and extending over the side walls at a height to receive the rolled barrels. A lock assembly including a hanging lug on the cover panel locks the end wall in the raised position.
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Battison Adrian D.
Castellano Stephen
Thrift Murray E.
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