Plastic transport container with reinforced floor
AssigneeFritz Schafer Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
InventorGerhard Schäfer
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Abstract
A container has a polygonal and generally planar floor panel having a plurality of edges, an upper face, and a lower face. Respective side walls extend upward from the edges of the floor panel and a plurality of ribs extend downward from the lower face of the floor panel adjacent the edge. An annular floor strip fixed to the ribs forms therewith an annular array of pockets having horizontally outwardly open mouths. In accordance with the invention closure strips engaged over the mouths horizontally close the pockets and are fixed permanently to the mouths of the pockets. The floor panel, side walls, ribs, and floor strip are unitarily formed of plastic.
Claims10
A container comprising:
- a polygonal and generally planar upper floor panel having a plurality of edges, an upper face, and a lower face;
- respective side walls extending upward from the edges of the floor panel;
- an annular array of ribs extending downward from the lower face adjacent the edge;
- an annular floor strip generally parallel to and spaced from the panel, fixed to the ribs, and forming therewith an annular array of inwardly closed pockets having horizontally outwardly open directed mouths, the lower face of the upper panel being downwardly exposed inward of the annular array of pockets;
- closure strips engaged over all of the mouths and horizontally closing all of the pockets;
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- means fixing the strips to the mouths of the pockets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.