Octagonal container and pallet therefor
AssigneeShuert Technologies, LLC
InventorLyle SHUERT
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Abstract
A shipping container comprising a bottom pallet, a sleeve and a top. At least the pallet and sleeve are octagonal in shape and the pallet has a floor engaging leg for support at each of the eight corners of the pallet. The ninth leg is located at the center of the pallet and all legs are located to allow forklift entry from any of multiple approach directions. The legs are preferably of crescentoid shape.
Claims7
An octagonal plastic pallet for use in constructing a container with eight sides, the pallet having eight intersecting sides defining eight corners, and eight tapered molded plastic integral legs, one leg being located at each of the eight corners of the octagonal pallet.
An octagonal shipping container comprising an eight-walled octagonal sleeve and a bottom pallet of octagonal shape adapted to receive the sleeve, said octagonal pallet being characterized by the presence of eight integral tapered downwardly-extending legs, each leg being located at a corner of the octagonal bottom pallet so as to lie directly under and in line with a corner of the sleeve.
A shipping container comprising:
- an eight-walled sleeve wherein each wall has a bottom edge and is substantially identical in height to each other wall, the eight walls intersect one another to define eight corners;
- the bottom edges lying in a common plane;
- a plastic pallet of octagonal shape having eight sides conforming in dimension to the eight walls of the sleeve;
- said pallet having a peripheral structure that receives the bottom edges therein;
- said pallet further having eight corners corresponding geometrically to the eight corners of the sleeve;
- said pallet having integrally formed thereon eight legs, each leg being co-located with a corner of the pallet;
- each leg being of tapered crescentoid shape so as to define a concave outer surface;
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- a top of such shape and size as to be conformingly locatable on the top of said sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.