Container

A container for particulate matter, comprising a closed case of rectangular or square prismatic shape having two opposite end walls and two pairs of side walls extending between said end walls, said case being formed from two open ended sections each having an end wall and four side walls extending therefrom, said sections being joined at their open ends, each end wall being formed from at least two sets of interwoven metallic strips, the strips of each set extending parallel to one another and transversely to the strips of at least one other set, each set of strips having free unwoven ends extending substantially normally from said woven end and having a further set of metallic ring strips interwoven with said free ends, said further set of metallic ring strips extending around the four side walls to form said four side walls of each section with said extending strips from said end, said side walls having at least each alternate strip which extends from said end extending beyond the last metallic ring strip of the side wall such that the two open ended sections are brought together at their open ends and each extending strip is joined in an overlapping manner to a strip which extends from the end of the other section, such that the alternating weave is continued, to form said casing wherein each strip from the ends of said casing becomes an independent ring, and wherein each adjacent strip of at least one set being spaced laterally from one another by a distance which is small in relation to the width of the strips of said one set.