Freight containers
First Claim
1. A stackable rectangular freight container which comprises a rigid bottomless rectangular container body having a doorless top wall and four doorless side walls, the top wall and side walls being permanently joined together at their adjacent edges along the respective edges of the container body, and the only access to the interior of the container body being through the open lower side, in combination with a rigid load supporting pallet of rectangular profile over which the container body can be lowered to enclose a load supported on the pallet, the pallet then forming the floor of and totally closing the container, and means being provided for releasably securing the peripheral edge of the pallet to the lower edges of at least two opposite side walls of the container body to secure the container in its closed condition such that in the closed condition the lower edges of the container body lie outside and around the peripheral edge of the pallet, said container body including support means configured so that when said container is used the closed container is placed on a flat supporting surface and said support means of the container body rests on the supporting surface with the pallet suspended clear of the supporting surface by the container body through the releasable securing means.
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Abstract
A stackable freight container comprising a rigid bottomless container body 10 and a separate freight-carrier pallet 11 which can be bolted into the open underside of the body 10 by means of shoot-bolts 37 to close the container and form its load-carrying floor. When the closed container is placed on a flat supporting surface 40 the lower edges of the body 10 rest on the surface 40 with the loaded pallet 11 supported clear of the surface 40 by the shoot-bolts 37, the weight of the loaded pallet 11 then preventing the withdrawal of the shoot-bolts. To open the container it must be lowered on to packing 39 to take the weight of the loaded pallet 11 off the shoot-bolts 37 so that they can be withdrawn.
The body 10 can be used inverted as a floating pontoon unit, whose deck is afforded by the pallet 11.
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- 1. A stackable rectangular freight container which comprises a rigid bottomless rectangular container body having a doorless top wall and four doorless side walls, the top wall and side walls being permanently joined together at their adjacent edges along the respective edges of the container body, and the only access to the interior of the container body being through the open lower side, in combination with a rigid load supporting pallet of rectangular profile over which the container body can be lowered to enclose a load supported on the pallet, the pallet then forming the floor of and totally closing the container, and means being provided for releasably securing the peripheral edge of the pallet to the lower edges of at least two opposite side walls of the container body to secure the container in its closed condition such that in the closed condition the lower edges of the container body lie outside and around the peripheral edge of the pallet, said container body including support means configured so that when said container is used the closed container is placed on a flat supporting surface and said support means of the container body rests on the supporting surface with the pallet suspended clear of the supporting surface by the container body through the releasable securing means.
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