Bulk container with liquid barrier lip
AssigneeMacro Plastics, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Burnham, Joshua Een
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Abstract
A bulk container has a liquid barrier lip portion formed in an upper rim portion of the container side walls. The liquid barrier lip portion extends about the entire periphery of the container and provides a pooling region to prevent liquid condensate on the outside wall surfaces from coursing along the side walls and mixing with the container contents when the container is raised and tilted during unloading by a lifting and rotating mechanism.
Claims18
In a bulk container having front, rear, side and bottom sections forming a containment volume with upper corner portions, said front, rear, and side sections having an upper rim portion extending about the upper periphery of said container, said upper rim portion having an outwardly extending segment with an outer edge surface, an upper surface, and a lower surface;
- the improvement comprising a liquid barrier lip portion located along said lower surface of said upper rim portion providing a liquid pooling region for collecting liquid coursing along said sections when said container is tilted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.