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Home Vibration and Earthquake Isolation Collapsible-pallet-mounted-container

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 Collapsible pallet mounted container

Details
Inventors: Shippell, Joseph C.;
Assignee: Consolidated Packaging Corporation (Flint, MI)
Primary Examiner: Moy; Joseph Man-Fu
Assistant Examiner: Fidei; David
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Knechtel, Valentino, Demeur & Dallas

A collapsible corrugated fiberboard container to be fastened to a pallet. The container has a floor panel, two opposite side panels and two opposite end panels. The side panels and end panels are flexibly connected to each other, and the floor panel is connected to the bottom edges of the side panels. The floor panel is divided by score lines into a center portion and two outer portions which are on either side of the center portion. The center portion is attached to the pallet, and the outer portions are free to pivot about the score lines. The end panels are provided with vertical score lines. Bottom flaps are each connected to the bottom edge of the end panels and are also provided with score lines. The container can be collapsed due to the flexible connections between the side and end panels and the arrangement of the score lines so that the container can assume a flattened storage configuration above the pallet when not in use.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A collapsible container assembly comprising: a horizontal rigid pallet base; four flexible interconnected wall panels comprising two opposite side panels and two opposite end panels; a container floor with at least two floor score lines parallel to each other dividing the floor to define a central portion and outer portions of each side of and connected to the central portion; the container floor being integrally and flexibly connected at the outer edges of the outer portions to the bottom edges of the two opposite side panels by means of a pair of side score lines; the central portion being affixed to the rigid pallet and the outer portions being foldable along the floor and side score lines; vertical score lines dividing the two opposite end panels into two sections, whereby the two sections on each side of the vertical score lines on each of the two opposite end panels are foldable inwardly along the vertical score lines from an opened position to a collapsed position; the floor score lines and the side score lines and the vertical score lines all forming flexible connections allowing the container to be collapsed in a flattened configuration above the pallet for storage.
2.
The collapsible container of claim 1 and further comprising two bottom flaps each flexibly connected along one of its edges to the lower edge of one of the two opposite end panels and adapted to be positioned over the container floor to provide a second ply reinforced floor for the container.
3.
The collapsible container of claim 2 wherein the two bottom flaps have a bottom score line aligned with the vertical score lines on the two opposite end panels so that when the container is collapsed, the bottom flaps are foldable upwardly by means of the flexible connections until the bottom flaps are facing the end panel, to which it is connected and then foldable inwardly along the bottom and vertical score lines in unison with the two opposite end panels.
4.
The collapsible container of claim 1 and further comprising at least two top flaps each flexibly connected along one edge to the top edge of two opposite wall panels



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