Special receptacle or package – With pallet feature – Specified pallet legs
Patent
1981-08-24
1983-11-08
Lowrance, George E.
Special receptacle or package
With pallet feature
Specified pallet legs
206511, 206600, 108 531, 108 533, 217 43A, B65D 1900, B65D 1938, B65D 2102
Patent
active
044137370
ABSTRACT:
A shipping container is provided comprising a pallet as the bottom thereof, an inverted identical pallet as the top thereof, and a peripheral sleeve forming load-bearing side walls mating with each pallet via a peripheral sleeve-receiving groove defined by a peripheral rim. The unitary pallet is configured so that a bottom pallet of one container will mate with the inverted top pallet of a lower container, when containers are stacked, in such a way as to prevent shifting between containers. Said pallets are also self-nesting for transport or storage when unloaded. The containers will stack even if vertically adjacent mutually inverse pallets are rotated 180.degree. in a horizontal plane with respect to each other. This ability to tolerate a 180.degree. rotation is provided by depending members and platform members of the pallet feet, oriented so that (i) a 180.degree. rotation of the pallet in the plane of the pallet results in a depending member/platform member pattern the same as the pattern prior to rotation and (ii) a 180.degree. rotation of the pallet about a center line lying in the plane of the pallet results in a depending member/platform member pattern which engages the unrotated depending member/platform member pattern in mutually abutting relationship. The pallets also have their feet so disposed to permit four-way fork lift entry. An alternative embodiment is provided wherein said pallets are nestable and stackable at 90.degree. intervals of relative rotation.
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patent: 3526195 (1970-09-01), Maryonovich
patent: 3664570 (1972-05-01), Kupersmit
patent: 3968895 (1976-07-01), Barnes
patent: 4000704 (1977-01-01), Griffin
patent: 4254873 (1981-03-01), Cook
Bigelow-Sanford, Inc.
Lowrance George E.
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