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US 4,364,477 AGranted
Plastics fish box
OwnerPer S. Stromberginventor
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Abstract
A plastics fish box for use on board fishing boats at sea is described. The fish box has a bottom, and side and end walls of substantially uniform thickness which terminate in a rim around the upper edge of the box. The lower parts of the walls are formed without contour, while the upper portions have a wave-shaped contour region to define with the rim a plurality of handgrip recesses.
Claims4
A fish box for use on board fishing boats at sea, the fish box being formed of plastics material, and having:
- (a) a bottom;
- (b) side and end walls upstanding from the bottom and defining an upper edge to the box;
- (c) a rim which extends around the said upper edge and in which the side and end walls terminate;
- (d) the side and end walls being formed with a wave-shaped contour region, the wave-shaped contour region and the rim together serving to define a plurality of hand-grip recesses;
- (e) the side and end walls, including edge regions thereof serving to define corner edge regions of the box, being of substantially the same thickness throughout and being formed with a substantially uniform thickness of material;
- (f) the wave-shaped contour region being confined to respective upper portions of the side and end walls which are adjacent the rim;
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- (g) the remaining lower portions of the side and end walls being smoothly formed without contour.
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