Shipping container for solid hazardous material
AssigneeQuestar Corporation
InventorCarlos L. Martinez
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Abstract
A container for shipping hazardous solid materials, such as dry cell batteries, has a rigid outer housing formed of a corrugated fiberboard material with an interior plastic liner. A plurality of different size dividers are placed in a vertical stacked relationship within the liner and storage chamber formed by the housing and are separated by flat planar partitions. The dividers form a plurality of individual storage compartments of various sizes for individually holding various size batteries for shipment. The dividers have various heights so that when combined with intervening partitions have a height generally equal to the height of the internal storage chamber.
Claims19
In combination, a plurality of batteries and a container for the storage and shipment of a plurality of said batteries;
- said combination comprising:
- an outer housing having an open top providing an internal storage chamber, said housing having spaced side walls, a bottom wall and at least one closure flap extending from at least one of the side walls for closing the open top of the storage chamber;
- a flexible liner formed of a plastic material placed in and conforming generally to the shape and size of the internal storage chamber;
- a plurality of dividers arranged in a vertical stacked relationship within the storage chamber and flexible liner, each divider providing a plurality of individual storage compartments having open tops for placement of a solid item in the individual storage compartments;
- a plurality of planar partition members located between adjacent pairs of the dividers;
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- individual batteries of said plurality of batteries being located each in a separate storage compartment of the dividers.
A method for the storage and shipment of a plurality of batteries in a shipping container comprising the steps of:
- providing a housing having an open top forming an internal storage chamber, said housing having side walls, a bottom wall and a top closure for closing the open top of the storage chamber;
- placing a flexible liner formed of a plastic material placed in the internal storage chamber;
- placing a first divider within the storage chamber and flexible liner, said first divider providing a plurality of individual storage compartments having open tops;
- placing a plurality of individual batteries in each of the separate individual storage compartments in said first divider;
- placing a partition member on top of said first divider after placement of the batteries in the storage compartment;
- repeating the steps of placing a divider with an intervening partition member in the storage container and filling each of the compartments with a battery until the vertical height of the stacked dividers and partition member substantially equals the vertical height of the storage chamber;
- closing an open top of the flexible liner after placement of the batteries in the storage compartments of the stacked dividers;
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- closing the open top of the storage container with the top closure;
- and sealing the top closure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.