Special receptacle or package – With pallet feature – Knockdown or collapsible type
Patent
1996-01-11
1997-09-09
Sewell, Paul T.
Special receptacle or package
With pallet feature
Knockdown or collapsible type
220 15, 220 7, B65D 1900
Patent
active
056646780
ABSTRACT:
A returnable container suitable to be assembled to contain products, and to be disassembled for return shipping, comprises a molded base having a container bottom plate surrounded by an upstanding flange, a molded top closure having a container top plate surrounded by a depending flange, and a sleeve part suitable for providing sidewalls surrounding a space between the base and the top closure and having upper and lower margins suitable for being received within in the flanges. The sidewalls are each formed from plastic material having an outer sheet and an inner sheet held in spaced relation by a plurality of vertically orientated webs, and the sidewalls are connected by hinge sections comprising flexible continuations of the outer sheets of adjacent sidewalls which extend across gaps between inner sheets of adjacent sidewalls. The hinge sections are capable of forming rounded corners of the container when the container is erected and the hinge sections are also capable of forming 180.degree. bends between adjacent sections, of which one is a reverse bend joining two of the sidewalls which are folded with their outer surfaces juxtaposed, so that for return shipping the sleeve can be folded substantially flat to occupy a space lying between the top and bottom plates and within the flanges of the collapsed base and top closure.
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Copy of Marketing Brochure with photograph of container.
Copy of Marketing Brochure with photographs of container, Perstorp Xytec, Inc.
Budowski Allan
Lambert Jeff
Lam Nhan T.
Sewell Paul T.
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