Transport box for fish or other food

• US 3,902,599 A
• Filed: 08/13/1973
• Issued: 09/02/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Svein Petro Stromberg
• Original Assignee: Svein Petro Stromberg
• Inventors: Stromberg, Svein Petro
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Marcus, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US05/388,100
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 220/70,72,74,71,73 206/503,509,511 229/DIG.11
• US Class Current: 206/511
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0212 Containers presenting local stacking elements protruding from the upper or lower edge of a side wall, e.g. handles, lugs, ribs, grooves B65D21/0211, B65D21/0215, B65D21/023 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/261 for draining or collecting liquids without absorbing them
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 220/06 Drains

Abstract

A one-piece plastic box for transporting fish or other food has end walls, side walls, and an imperforate bottom sloping downward toward discharge slots passing through the walls where the bottom joins the walls. The sidewalls include a substantially vertical lower portion and an inwardly inclined upper portion, the top of which is turned horizontally outward to form a board-like support surface with its outer margin bent downwardly to reinforce the support surface. Additional reinforcing is provided under the support surface and at the corners of the box. Means are provided for vertically aligning adjacent boxes in a stack of boxes. Means are also provided to prevent a single box or the bottom box in a stack of boxes from sliding on a smooth surface such as the deck of a ship.

Claims

1. A transport box moulded from plastic material as a unit comprising side walls and end walls and a bottom, said side walls each having a vertical portion and an inwardly inclined upper portion, the top edge of said upper portion being horizontally turned outwardly forming a board-like support with its outer margin bent downwardly, a plurality of spaced vertical stiffening webs extending between said board-like support and said inclined upper portion, means forming tubular vertical reinforced corners at the junctures of said side and end walls, said tubular corners being closed at their tops, and a plurality of knobs on the upwardly facing surface of said board-like supports and ribs on the bottom of the box fitting between said knobs when said boxes are stacked, and compressible rubber inserts in the bottom of said tubular corners extending below the bottom of the box, said inserts being compressible to the level of said ribs.