B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
D
190/13.6
B65D 19/24 (2006.01) B65D 19/00 (2006.01) B65D 19/06 (2006.01) B65D 71/00 (2006.01) B65D 71/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1162863
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE 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. The 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° in a horizontal plane with respect to each other. This ability to tolerate a 180° rotation is provided by projecting members and platform members of the pallet feet, oriented so that (i) a 180° rotation of the pallet in the plane of the pallet results in a projecting member/platform member pattern the same as the pattern prior to rotation and (ii) a 180° rotation of the pallet about a center line lying in the plane of the pallet results in a projecting member/platform member pattern which engages the unrotated projecting 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° in- tervals of relative rotation.
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Bigelow-Sanford Inc.
G. Ronald Bell & Associates
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