Pallet box container
OwnerJohn F. Pruitt, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
The specification discloses a collapsible pallet box or container composed of a pallet platform and four upright panels connected together at the corner edges by flexible material to form a polygon expandable to a rectangle or collapsible to a flattened parallelogram. The bottom of the polygon panels are removably attached to the pallet. The tops of the panels have a stabilizing grid with interconnected compression elements between the panels to stabilize the panel tops in the expanded rectangular configuration, and interconnectable, releasable hook and loop fasteners on the grid and on the polygon upper end, at the corners of the grid and recessed into the corners of the polygon, to keep the grid secured to the polygon and thereby keep the polygon locked to the pallet.
Claims11
A collapsible pallet container comprising:
- a support pallet having a horizontal platform and undergirders secured beneath said platform;
- a plurality of two opposite, upright side panels and two opposite, upright end panels, arranged in a polygon to also form polygon corners;
- said side panels and end panels having vertical end edges;
- said side panel vertical end edges being adjacent said end panel vertical end edges;
- flexible material mounted to said panels and extending between said side panels and said end panels in a manner to secure said panels together in a continuum capable of extension into a rectangular polygon or collapsing into a flattened parallelogram;
- said panels having upper and lower portions;
- said lower portion of at least two opposite ones of said panels being removably interengageable with said platform;
- the improvement comprising:
- a removable stabilizer grid having four corners and including compression members for placement between two opposite ones of said upright panels to rigidify said polygon, transverse connectors between said compression members, and interconnectable hook and loop fasteners on said grid and on said polygon for securing said grid in position and thereby forming a stable pallet container, but capable of purposeful disconnection of said hook and loop fasteners for removal of said grid and collapsing of said polygon.
A collapsible pallet container comprising:
- a support pallet having pairs of opposite edges;
- a collapsible upright polygon having pairs of opposite vertical panels forming lower portions and upper portions of said polygon;
- flexible tension means between said panels for binding said panels together such that said polygon is expandable or collapsible;
- attachment means between said polygon lower portions and said pallet for mounting said polygon to said pallet;
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- panel stabilizer means between said polygon upper portions for retaining said polygon upper portions expanded and for keeping said panels attached to said pallet, said panel stabilizer means comprising a removable grid having compression members extending between opposite ones of said panels, connectors between said compression members, and interconnectable, releasable fasteners on said grid and said polygon for securing said grid in position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.