Bulk material shipping container
AssigneeArrows Up, LLC
InventorsC. John Allegretti, Kevin Sylvester Corrigan, Margarito Guerrero, Felix Guerrero
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Abstract
A bulk material shipping container including a pallet, a compartment configured to receive, hold, and release materials and connected to and supported by the pallet, a material unloading assembly positioned under a bottom portion of the compartment, configured to facilitate the release or unloading of materials from the compartment, and connected to and supported by the pallet, and a material loading assembly configured to facilitate the loading of material into the compartment and connected to and partially supported by a top wall assembly of the compartment.
Claims34
A material shipping container comprising:
- (a) a pallet including:
- a first bottom corner assembly,
- a second bottom corner assembly,
- a third bottom corner assembly, and
- a fourth bottom corner assembly;
- (b) a compartment connected to and supported by the pallet, the compartment including:
- a top wall assembly,
- a first upper corner assembly,
- a second upper corner assembly,
- a third upper corner assembly, and
- a fourth upper corner assembly;
- (c) a material unloading assembly connected to a bottom portion of the compartment;
- and
- (d) a material loading assembly connected to and supported by a top wall assembly of the compartment.
A material shipping container comprising:
- (a) a pallet including:
- a front support;
- a first side support;
- a rear support;
- a second side support;
- a first fork lift tine receiving tube;
- a second fork lift tine receiving tube;
- a first material unloading assembly support;
- a second material unloading assembly support;
- a first stabilizer brace;
- a second stabilizer brace;
- a first bottom corner assembly;
- a second bottom corner assembly;
- a third bottom corner assembly;
- a fourth bottom corner assembly;
- (b) a compartment configured to receive, hold, and release materials and connected to and supported by the pallet, the compartment including:
- a first upright corner assembly;
- a second upright corner assembly;
- a third upright corner assembly;
- a fourth upright corner assembly;
- an interior bottom wall assembly;
- an interior bottom wall support assembly;
- an exterior front wall assembly;
- an exterior first side wall assembly;
- an exterior rear wall assembly;
- an exterior second side wall assembly;
- a first upper corner assembly;
- a second upper corner assembly;
- a third upper corner assembly;
- a fourth upper corner assembly;
- and
- a top wall assembly;
- (c) a material unloading assembly configured to facilitate unloading of materials from the compartment, material unloading assembly connected to and supported by the pallet, the material unloading assembly including:
- a first guide rail;
- a second guide rail;
- and
- a gate assembly;
- and
- (d) a material loading assembly configured to facilitate the loading of material into the compartment and connected to and supported by the top wall assembly of the compartment, the material loading assembly including:
- a hatch collar assembly;
- a hatch rail guide assembly;
- and
- a hatch assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.