Pallet container with an exchangeable inner container of a synthetic resin and an outer jacket of metal lattice bars

• US 4,909,387 A
• Filed: 01/12/1989
• Issued: 03/20/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Protechna SA
• Original Assignee: Udo Schutz
• Inventors: Schutz, Udo
• Primary Examiner(s): Gehman, Bryan P.
• Application Number:
  US07/296,125
• Time in Patent Office: 432 Days
• Field of Search: 220/18.1, 220/70.1, 220/72.1, 220/401, 220/84, 220/19, 220/1.5, 206/386, 222/105, 222/183
• US Class Current: 206/386
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/0466 the containers being mounted on a pallet

Abstract

The pallet container comprises a wooden pallet or a steel pipe pallet, on which is mounted an inner container of a synthetic resin with a jacket of vertical and horizontal lattice bars (4, 5) of steel pipe, these bars forming continuous inner and outer tangential planes; (20-20, 25-25). At the points of intersection (15), the lattice bars are drawn in to form trough-like indentations. This configuration has the result that, at each point of intersection (15), four contact points (22) disposed in one plane (21-21) are produced with an accumulation of material in each case corresponding to four times the wall thickness of the lattice bars. The lattice bars (4, 5) are joined together at the points of intersection (15) in the zone of the contact points (22) by electric resistance welding. The pallet container is usable as a safely operating multiple-trip container for liquid merchandise of all kinds.

Claims

1. Pallet container with a flat pallet, an exchangeable inner container of a synthetic resin with an upper filling port and a lower discharge means, as well as with an outer shell surrounding the inner container, with vertical and horizontal lattice bars of metal, the outer shell (3) comprising lattice bars (4, 5) fashioned as pipes, these bars being in close contact with the outer wall (14) of the synthetic resin inner container (2);

the vertical and horizontal lattice bars (4,

     5) being deformed, at points of intersection (15), for the formation of trough-like, double-walled indentations (16) extending in the longitudinal direction of the lattice bars, in such a way that two curved longitudinal rims (18,

     19) of a wall (17) of the indentations (16) of each lattice bar (4,

     5) extend between a tangential plane (20-20) and a secant plane (21-21) of the lattice bar (4,

     5), this latter plane being parallel to the former plane, and there being, at each of the points of intersection (15) between the longitudinal rims (18,

     19) of the indentations (16) of two rectangularly superimposed lattice bars (4,

     5), four contact points (22) located in one plane (21-21) with an accumulation of material corresponding in each case to four times a lattice bar wall thickness (23);

the lattice bars (4,

     5) are joined by means of welding of the four contact points (22) at each point of intersection (15) in such a way that the bars (4,

     5) have common tangential planes (20-20, 25-25) on the inside and outside of the bars.

2. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein the lower ends (26) of the vertical lattice bars (4) are compressed to central, flat extensions welded with one broad side to the inside of a short leg (29) of an angular profile member (28) extending around the outer shell (3).

3. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein ends of the vertical lattice bars (4) exhibit opposed flattened portions or are constricted and are attached in a continuously extending U-shaped profile member (31);

and mounting angles (32), uniformly distributed along the periphery of the outer shell (3), are connected to an inner leg of the U-shaped profile member (31).

4. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein lower ends (26) of the vertical lattice bars (4) are compressed into central, flat extensions and are butt-welded onto a continuously extending, horizontal lattice bar (5) to which mounting angles (32) are connected by welding.

5. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein lower ends (34) of the vertical lattice bars (4) are compressed on one side in the manner of an arc and are welded to a horizontal, continuously extending lattice bar (5).

6. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein lower ends of the vertical lattice bars (4) are welded to a horizontal lattice bar (5) extending all around the outer shell (3), in the region of trough-like drawn-in indentations (16);

and inwardly projecting mounting angles (32) welded to at least several vertical lattice bars (4).

7. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein ends (35) of the vertical lattice bars (4) are compressed to central, flat extensions and are butt-welded, with an approximately semicircular recess (36), to a lattice bar (5) that extends all around the outer shell (3).

8. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein ends (37) of the vertical lattice bars (4) are compressed in the manner of a spherical segment and are butt-welded to a lattice bar (5) that extends all around the outer shell (3).

9. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein ends of the vertical lattice bars (4) are welded into an angular profile member (38) that extends all around the outer shell (3).

10. Pallet container according to claim 1 with a steel pipe pallet, wherein fishplates (40) bent into a Z-shape are welded to a lattice bar that extends all around the bottom of the outer shell (3), at spacings between mounting angles (32), these fishplates contacting an upper tubular frame (44) of the steel pipe pallet (39) from the inside.

11. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein two vertical lattice bars (4) are welded together;

and ends of the horizontal lattice bars (5) are compressed into extensions (46) offset eccentrically by a pipe radius, these extensions being shaped to be arcuate and being welded to respective vertical lattice bars (4).

12. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein the ends of the horizontal lattice bars (5) are compressed into pointed extensions (47) offset eccentrically by a lattice bar radius, these extensions being welded to one another and to a vertical lattice bar (4).

13. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein four diagonally arranged upper tubular struts (55) are threaded, in the center of the sides of the lattice shell (3), to an upper, continuously extending profile member (33).

14. Pallet container according to claim 13, wherein an upper wall (9) of the synthetic resin inner container (2) exhibits, on both sides of a depression (56) accommodating an upper filling port (10) with screw-on lid (11), obliquely formed troughs (58) for the accommodation of diagonal tubular struts (55).

15. Pallet container according to claim 1 with a wooden pallet, wherein mounting angles (32) are threaded in place, at least in corner regions of the pallet (7), by means of screw bolts (49) extending into lower wooden boards of the pallet (7).

16. Pallet container according to claim 1, wherein the spacings of the horizontal lattice bars (5) of the lattice shell (3) increase from the bottom toward the top.