Container fastening assembly
OwnerCliff WIEBEinventor
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Abstract
A connection arrangement for connection of vertically and/or horizontally arranged containers. Each of the containers provides bosses or projections over a collinear pair of which is placed a separate plate. The plate provides matched polygonal apertures to receive the projections. Each of the projections provides an aperture there through to receive a retainer pin or bolt. The pin or bolt abuts the plate when engaged. The arrangement greatly expedites the separation of the containers when desired. The user needs only tap out the retainer pin and pull off the plate. This obviates the use of fasteners which can freeze, rust or become otherwise inoperative or cumbersome.
Claims3
A modular container comprising:
- a plurality of separate container wall segments adapted for releasable connection with each other to form a container or enclosure, adjacent wall segments abutting each other to form an interface of contact;
- bosses having a predetermined, height and being fixed on and projecting outwardly from each container wall segment of said container or enclosure, bosses of each wall segment having identical external predetermined configurations and being spaced from and or opposite sides of said interface by a second predetermined distance and being located on an imaginary plane perpendicular to said interface;
- a removable first plate having a pair of apertures having a dimension for extending between wall segments across said interface in close proximity to abutting wall segments, an aperture of said apertures of said first plate being configured to receive a boss of said bosses, said first plate being configured to cooperate with said predetermined height of said respective bosses, each aperture of said apertures of said first plate having a lengthwise dimension from said interface when said first plate is placed across said interface to enable said respective integral parts to receive said respective bosses, and said wall segments being devoid of other removable plates on said respective bosses having integral parts configured to receive said respective bosses;
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- boss cooperating engagement structure integral with each of said respective bosses;
- a cooperating retainer associated with each of said respective bosses when said respective bosses are received by said respective aperture for releasably locking said respective bosses and said wall segments against substantial relative movement, said plate being dimensioned to surround said bosses, each said cooperating retainer when engaged, being within an area bounded by said plate and in a parallel and abutting relationship thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.