Pallet-less drums
OwnerJohn Mingus, Mary Mingusinventors
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Abstract
A drum shaped container equipped with a tapered base plate having an inverted U-shaped channel extending diametrically through the bottom surface thereof, and a retrainer strap provided with adjustment holes in one end thereof and having a retainer spring resiliently connecting the ends of the strap together, the strap adapted to be passed about four of the drums with the channels in the base plate of the front pair of drums being longitudinally aligned with the channels in the back pair of drums so that the channels may be engaged by the lifting forks of a forklift truck for simultaneous movement of the four individual drum containers.
Claims1
A pallet-less container comprising, in combination:
- a set of four identical drum shaped containers wherein each of said containers includes a flat top surface, a flat bottom surface and cylindrical side wall surfaces;
- a base plate affixed to the bottom surface of each of said containers, the base plates being defined by an inverted frusto-conical configuration having a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface, and an inverted U-shaped channel extending diametrically through each of said base plates and opening out of the bottom surface thereof;
- an elongated strap configured flat retainer adapted to be passed about the containers to retain the containers together in side-by-side parallel relationship, said strap having a first end and a second end, a single opening adjacent said first end extending through said strap, and a series of longitudinally spaced apart openings disposed in said second end of said strap providing selective adjustment;
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- a retainer spring having its opposite ends affixed to opposite ends of said retainer strap for retaining said retainer strap position about said containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.