Patent ID: 6675723
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A pallet cage, comprising a pallet and four walls mounted on its edges, together forming a cage open above and having the shape of a rectangular parallelopiped;the four walls of the cage being separate castings pressed from plastic and detached from each other; two of said walls being opposite and identical side walls while the other two being opposite and identical end walls; each end wall having an upper edge and a lower edge, and comprising a straight elongated and plate-like part having a joining element at each end thereof; each side wall comprising a straight elongated and plate-like part having a 90Â° corner part at each end thereof; the side walls having outer edges which are provided with counterparts of the joining elements; the walls being connectable to each other by the joining elements and their counterparts to form the walls of a cage having the form of a right-angled parallelogram; each side wall having a lower edge and an upper edge, and being provided with at least two lugs extending downward from said lower edge for supporting or fastening the side wall to the pallet; and each lug comprising at least one latching socket, and the upper edge of the side wall being provided with a projecting latching clutch corresponding to the latching socket, so that side walls placed one upon the other can be locked to each other in the vertical direction by fitting the latching socket in the lug of an upper side wall around the latching clutch of a lower side wall.