Container
OwnerFlemming Elvin-Jenseninventor
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Abstract
A bulk container comprises a base and sidewalls and the base includes openings for the times of a forklift truck. Each opening has edge portions which slope up to the sidewalls to form an entrance. Such entrance includes a vertical height being greater than the rest of the opening below the base and reinforcing ribs extending along the underside of the edge portion.
Claims7
A bulk container of the kind used in storage of materials which container is normally transported from location to location by a forklift truck and which comprises containment walls and a base with an opening of predetermined height in its lower portion below the base, said opening being capable of receiving the "tines" of a fork, there being ribs on the underside of the container in said opening and running the direction of the opening characterized in that the base of the container has edge portions which slope up to the containment walls to thereby form an entrance to said opening, said entrance having a vertical height greater than said predetermined height of said opening below the base, and that said ribs extend along the underside of said edge portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.