Patent ID: 6598756
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: B65D,Y02W

Abstract:
A knock down stillage box comprising a base panel, four side walls, a top panel and stillage components for retaining cargo within the box, each of the side walls comprising a lower side wall panel extending from the base panel and an upper side wall panel, the upper side wall panels being movable between an erected, cargo stowing position in which the stillage components are erected for stowing cargo within the box, and a collapsed, stillage stowing position in which the top panel and the upper side wall panels, in combination with the base panel and the lower side wall panels, provide a sub-box defining an internal sub-volume within which the stillage components are stowable in a collapsed condition, wherein three of the upper side wall panels are hinged to three of the lower side wall panels and are foldable into the collapsed position in which they form part of the sub-box, wherein a fourth front upper side wall panel is separable from a fourth front lower side wall panel to define an access opening for loading and unloading the box, and wherein the fourth front lower side wall panel is movable between an upper position in which it is clipped to adjacent lower side wall panels, and a lower, loading position in which it is lowered relative to the base panel to increase the size of the access opening for loading and unloading the box.