Patent ID: 9701464
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B65D,E05D,E05Y

Claim:
1. A reversibly foldable freight container, comprising: a roof structure; a floor structure opposite the roof structure; sidewall structures between the floor structure and the roof structure, each of the sidewall structures having an exterior surface and an interior surface opposite the exterior surface; a front wall joined with the roof structure, the floor structure and the sidewall structures, the front wall including front wall corner posts, a front door hinge on at least one of the front wall corner posts and a front door joined to the front door hinge; a rear wall joined with the roof structure, the floor structure and the sidewall structures, where the roof structure, the floor structure, the interior surface of the sidewall structures and the rear wall define a volume of the reversibly foldable freight container, the rear wall including rear wall corner posts, a hinge on the rear wall corner posts and a rear wall door joined to the hinge, where the hinge can be locked to the rear wall corner posts in a first predetermined position so that the rear wall door can pivot on the hinge to extend adjacent the exterior surface of the sidewall structure or can be un-locked to the rear wall corner posts in a second predetermined position so that the rear wall door can pivot into the volume of the reversibly foldable freight container and extend adjacent the interior surface of the sidewall structure, and where in an unfolded state the reversibly foldable freight container has a predefined width measured at a predetermined point on each of two of the rear wall corner posts and a plurality of jointed members in the floor structure, where each of the jointed members includes: