Shipping container load securer
AssigneeSignode Industrial Group LLC
InventorsDavid Arnold Christiansen, Marc Steven Johnson, Christopher Wayne Baker, George C. Boyse
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Abstract
A shipping container load securer including a pallet and a box connected to the pallet and filled with a filler, wherein the pallet and the box are substantially the same size and shape as a standardized crate used to package goods for transport in shipping containers. The load securer fills voids in partially filled shipping containers, enabling the shipping container to be tightly packed and preventing the movement of goods-filled crates during transport to minimize damage to the goods in the crates in the shipping container, while not substantially increasing the weight of the container.
Claims13
A shipping container load securer comprising:
- a pallet;
- a box connected to the pallet, the box having an interior box length, an interior box width, and an interior box height;
- and
- a filler located inside the box, said filler including a plurality of sets of a plurality of triangular shaped tubes, each set of tubes having a tube set height, each tube having a tube length and a tube width,
- wherein, for each set of tubes, the tubes of said set are arranged such that:
- (a) the tube length of at least one of the tubes substantially traverses one of the interior box length and the interior box width, and (b) the tube widths of the tubes collectively substantially traverse the other of the interior box length and the interior box width, and
- wherein the plurality of sets of tubes are arranged such that the tube set heights of the plurality of sets of tubes collectively substantially traverse the interior box height.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.