Knockdown box or pallet bin

• US 3,079,025 A
• Filed: 07/03/1961
• Issued: 02/26/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leslie E. Herman
• Original Assignee: Leslie E. Herman
• Inventors: Herman, Leslie E.
• Application Number:
  US04/121,596
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• US Class Current: 217/12.00R
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 19/0095 and each contact surface having a stringer-like shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 19/16 Collapsible pallets
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00024 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00029 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00064 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00099 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00129 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00134 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00139 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00169 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00233 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00238 Wood
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00243 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00273 made of more than one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00293 made of more than one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00298 skeleton type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00323 made of more than one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00333 contact surface having a stringer-like shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00373 whereby at least one spacer is made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00452 on the walls
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00497 : whereby at least one side wall is made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00557 : without separate auxiliary elements
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00562 : chemical connection, e.g. glued, welded, sealed
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00587 : side walls directly connected to each other
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00611 : side walls maintained connected to each other by means of auxiliary locking elements, e.g. spring loaded locking pins
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00641 : Structures intended to be disassembled
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00661 : side walls maintained connected to pallet by means of auxiliary locking elements, e.g. spring loaded locking pins

Claims

2. A KNOCK-DOWN CONTAINER INCLUDING:

A DOUBLE-FACED RECTANGULAR-SHAPED BOTTOM PALLET MEMBER HAVING AN UPPER FACE AND A LOWER FACE AND INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING BOARDS FORMING EACH FACE AND SUPPORTED AND SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER BY A PLURALITY OF INTERPOSED LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING ELONGATED STRINGER MEMBERS SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER;

FIRST AND SECOND PANEL-LIKE SIDE MEMBERS ADAPTED TO BE SUPPORTED ON THE SIDE EDGES OF THE UPPER FACE OF SAID PALLET MEMBER;

FIRST AND SECOND PANEL-LIKE END MEMBERS ADAPTED TO BE SUPPORTED ON THE END EDGES OF THE UPPER OF SAID PALLET MEMBER;

FIRST AND SECOND BRACKETS RESPECTIVELY MOUNTED ON SAID FIRST AND SECOND END MEMBERS ADJACENT THE RESPECTIVE LOWER EDGES THEREOF AND RIGIDLY AFFIXED TO THE EXTERNAL SURFACE THEREOF, EACH OF SAID BRACKETS HAVING FINGER MEANS CONFIGURED TO EXTEND AROUND THE EDGE AND UNDER THE TOP FACE OF THE PALLET ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF ONE OF SAID STRINGER MEMBERS TO ENGAGE THE UNDERSIDE OF SAID TOP FACE AND THE SIDES OF SAID CORRESPONDING STRINGER MEMBER, SAID BRACKETS SERVING TO PREVENT MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND END MEMBERS TRANSVERSELY AND LONGITUDINALLY WITH RESPECT TO SAID UPPER FACE OF SAID PALLET MEMBER;

AND ELONGATED MALE AND FEMALE COUPLING MEMBERS MOUNTED ON THE ENDS OF SAID SIDE AND END MEMBERS AND CONFIGURED TO SLIDE INTO MATING RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER TO INTERCOUPLE SAID SIDE MEMBERS TO SAID END MEMBERS AT THE CORNERS OF THE CONTAINER.