Shipping container

• US 9,957,078 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2014
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Macro Plastics, Inc. (IPL Plastics, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Macro Plastics, Inc. (IPL Plastics, Inc.)
• Inventors: Turner, Todd T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pickett, J. Gregory
• Assistant Examiner(s): VOLZ, ELIZABETH J
• Application Number:
  US14/785,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20160075464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,441 Days
• Field of Search: 220604, 220659, 220669, 220656, 220657, 220658, 220675, 220670, 220671, 206515, 206518, 206519
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/22 Boxes or like containers with side walls of substantial depth for enclosing contents B65D43/162, B65D81/02, B65D81/3813 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/42 Reinforcing or strengthening parts or members
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 19/04 with bodies moulded or otherwise fabricated in one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/24 for spacing bases of containers from supporting surfaces, e.g. legs for pallets B65D19/40
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00034 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00069 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00174 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00268 made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00288 made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00318 made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00338 contact surface having a discrete foot-like shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00422 on the walls
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00497 whereby at least one side wall is made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00621 sidewalls directly connected to each other
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00666 Structures not intended to be disassembled
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/0094 nestable

Abstract

A shipping container for containing hydraulic loads, the container having a first pair of opposing walls having a convex inner surface and a second pair of opposing walls having a concave inner surface. The shipping container further has a rectangular base, the rectangular base having a first pair of opposing edge portions and second pair of opposing edge portions, wherein each of the first pair of opposing sidewalls arise from one of the first pair of opposing edge portions of the rectangular base and each of the second pair of opposing sidewalls arise from one of the second pair of opposing edge portions of the rectangular base.

Claims

1. A shipping container comprising:

a rectangular base, said rectangular base having a first pair of opposing edge portions and a second pair of opposing edge portions;

a first pair of opposing sidewalls, each of the first pair of sidewalls

arising from one of said first pair of opposing edge portions of the rectangular base,

forming an obtuse angle with respect to the rectangular base, and

having a convex inner surface;

a second pair of opposing sidewalls, each of the second pair of sidewalls

arising from one of said first pair of opposing edge portions of the rectangular base,

forming an obtuse angle with respect to the rectangular base, and

having a concave inner surface,

wherein adjacent sidewalls cooperate to form a curved sidewall section, said curved sidewall sections having a radius that is constant from the top of said curved sidewall sections to the bottom of said curved sidewall sections, said curved sidewall section having a concave inner face;

wherein each of the first pair of sidewalls and each of the second pair of sidewalls having at least one horizontal offset, wherein said curved sidewall sections having a radius that is constant from the top of said curved sidewall sections to the bottom of said curved sidewall sections including in said at least one horizontal offset.