Patent ID: 6250490
Filing Date: 2001-06-26
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A container system for delivery of goods to retail premises, comprising a plurality of containers which are manually liftable when containing the said goods, there being means associated with the containers for connecting together at least two containers while containing the said goods, to prevent unauthorized separation thereof and to form a group of containers which, when containing the said goods, is not readily manually lifted, each container comprising formations which mate with respective corresponding formations of another like container when connected therewith, each container further comprising apertures or recesses which are remote from the mating formations and come into alignment when containers are connected, to allow security means to be introduced through aligned apertures or recesses of connected containers, to engage both containers, the mating formations serving, when mated, to prevent connected containers moving apart from one another, and the security means serving, when engaged, to prevent the mating formations being de-mated by relative movement of the connected containers.