Patent ID: 6446824
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A loading unit for air freight, comprising:a loading base; upright walls on said loading base; and a flat cover on said upright walls, said walls being detachably joined to said loading base and said cover and being joined to one another to form a self-supporting wall unit, said loading base and said cover, around at least part of their periphery, having slots in which each of said walls can be accommodated, each of said walls having integral joining parts on respective upright edges, said joining parts including a shaped section permanently fixed at said upright edges of said walls, said shaped sections joining said walls together two by two, said shaped sections each having a hook element and a flange forming an undercut cavity into which said hook element of an adjacent shaped section can be slid, said hook element of a first shaped section extends from an edge surface of one of said walls, parallel to said one of said walls, and said undercut cavity of a second shaped section being defined by said hook element and said flange of said second shaped section that extend perpendicularly from a face of another of said walls, said face facing said edge surface of said one of said walls.