Patent ID: 6446825
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
An articulated container, collapsible and expandable, utilized for the transportation of fruits or similar food products, formed by two frontal walls, two lateral walls, two upper tops and a base wherein said frontal walls, lateral walls, upper tops and base are all joined together, and wherein said frontal walls include a series of horizontal ribs; a curved section which begins at a penultimate horizontal rib (from top to bottom), a plurality of truncated triangular sections situated at the end of each said frontal wall proximate said base, wherein said frontal walls are each connected to said base by a series of hinges between said truncated triangular sections, and said lateral walls are connected to said base by a series of hinges said frontal walls including hooking or latching means for securing said frontal walls to said lateral walls, said hooking or latching means located proximate upper and lower edges of said frontal walls; said tops are hingedly connected to said lateral walls, and said frontal and lateral walls and tops are adapted to be folded from a first, storage position, to a second, working position, and wherein, when in said working position, said frontal walls include means securing said frontal walls to said tops, and said lateral walls, frontal walls, base and tops define a cargo-carrying volume therebetween when said lateral walls, frontal walls and tops are in said working position.