Receptacles – Sectional – Folding
Patent
1979-01-15
1980-07-29
Lowrance, George E.
Receptacles
Sectional
Folding
220 15, 220 7, B65D 726, B65J 102
Patent
active
042146690
ABSTRACT:
An elongate, box-like collapsible cargo container including horizontal, vertically spaced top and bottom walls, normally vertical end walls and normally vertical sectional side walls; said end walls have frames about their perimeter, hinge means between the bottom edges of the end walls and ends of the bottom wall whereby the end walls can be selectively pivoted longitudinally inwardly and downwardly to collapsed horizontal positions atop the bottom walls; said sectional side walls include longitudinally extending upper and lower panels, hinge means between the upper and lower panels between the bottom wall and the lower panels and between the top wall and the upper panels, whereby said panels can be pivoted laterally inwardly to horizontal collapsed positions between the top wall and the end walls when said end walls are in their collapsed position; the frames of the end walls define axially inwardly opening channels along the top and side edges of the end walls and the top and side walls have axially outwardly projecting flanges engaged in the channels when the end walls are vertical.
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patent: 3130850 (1964-04-01), Oakey
patent: 3223274 (1965-12-01), Tolnai
patent: 3602388 (1971-08-01), Hurkamp
patent: 3765556 (1973-10-01), Baer
patent: 3796342 (1974-03-01), Sanders
Lowrance George E.
Maxwell Georges A.
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