baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent CS-250093-B1 (CS)
Inventor: MIKOLAJEK JAROSLAV
IPC: B65G39/00
Filed: 1985-11-14
Abstract: Účelem vynálezu je možnost jeho použití
pro různé šířky pásů, zejména gumových,
při současném jednoduchém konstrukčním
.řešení s možností ‘snadného a poměrně
rychlého přestavení svislých vodicích válečků.
Uvedeného účelu se dosáhne zařízením
podle vynálezu, sestávajícího ze svislých
vodicích válečků (1, 1‘), oboustranně uložených
v horních a dolních ložiskových tělesech
(3, 3‘) a (4, 4‘), jež jsou suvně uložena
v horizontálních vedeních (8, 8‘) a
jsou opatřena volně uloženými maticemi
(9), v nichž jsou uloženy pohybové šrouby
(10, 10‘), napojené na hnací jednotku (13).
K horizontálním vedením (8, 8f) jsou upevněna
i pevná ložisková tělesa (5, 5‘, 6, 6‘),
uspořádaná mezi horními a dolními ložiskovýwWW
(3, 3‘, 4, 4‘),
Patent CS-253926-B1 (CS)
Inventor: PUTERA VLADIMIR
IPC: B65G17/20
Filed: 1985-11-29
Abstract: Mechanická krokovacia zarážka dvojdráhového
visutého dopravnika, pozostávajúca
z dvojramennej páky, spojenej pomocou
vzpěry s výkyvným ramenom pákového mechanizmu,
vybaveného dvomi paralelnými
závěsnými ramenami telesa výkyvnej zarážky,
opatřenými nosnými čapmi, upevněnými
na nosnej doske zarážky. Riešeným
problémom je vytvorenie zariadenia, ktoré
by nahrádzalo brzdu na vozíku dopravníka
a ktoré by bolo zároveň výrobně jednoduché
a funkčně spolahlivé. To sa dosahuje
tým, že rovnoběžně s rovinou dvojramennej
páky je usporiadaná výkyvná západka s excentrickou
styčnou plochou, uložená svojím
nosným čapom na konzole, upevnenej k
nosnej doske dvojramennej páky, ktorej čelná
plocha je opatřená odpruženým kotúčovým
výstupkom a ktorej chrbát je opatřený
opornou plochou pre pevný doraz.
Patent CS-256840-B1 (CS)
Inventor: KROUPA JAN
IPC: C07C303/00
Filed: 1986-12-09
Abstract: Způsob výroby 2-naftylamin-6,8-disulfonové
kyseliny Buchererovou reakcí
tak, že reakci se čpavkem za přítomnosti
siřičitanových či disiřičitanových aniontů
při teplotě 140 až 195 °0 a tlaku 1
až 4 MPa se podrobí dvojamonná sůl 2-naftol-6,8-disulfonové
kyseliny, přičemž
molární poměr dvojamonné soli 2-naftol6,8-disulfonové
kyseliny a čpavku 1 : 3
až 9, a výhodou 1:5.
2-naftylamin-6,8-disulfonová kyselina se
používá jako barvářský meziprodukt.
Patent CS-234667-B1 (CS)
Inventor: MESKAN ZDENEK
IPC: B65G13/00
Filed: 1983-12-06
Abstract: Předmětem vynálezu je etážové dopravní zařízení pro bezrámové formy s odlitky s pantograficky upevněnými zdvižemi v krajních polohách nosné konstrukce, s aretací horních poloh zdviží a odstraněním nutnosti separovat krajní dopravní palety určené k svislému přemístění. Výhodou jsou nízké výrobní náklady a snížený počet součástí podléhajících opotřebení.
Patent CS-217391-B1 (CS)
Inventor: LEDVINA FRANTISEK
IPC: E04G23/02
Filed: 1980-12-22
Abstract: Vynález se týká způsobu zvyšování 'únosnosti
betonovýoh konstrukoí, poškozenýoh
nárazem, dynamickými účinky, požárem apod.
nebo konstrukoí ohybně dimenzovaných nebo
vyrobenýoh.
Podstata způsobu podle vynálezu spočívá
v tom, že se nejprve zpevní povrohová
vrstva betonové konstrukoe impregnací nízkoviskozní
syntetiokou pryskyřicí, načež
se na povroh betonové konstrukoe přitmelí
vrstvou syntetioké pryskyřioe, plněné práškovými
nebo zrnitými plnivy, ooelové zesilující
prvky ve formě pleohů, nosníků,drátů
nebo prutů apod. Povroh zesilujíoíoh
prvků Je třeba předem očistit a opatřeit
základním nátěrem syntetioké praskyřioe.
Způsobem podle vynálezu Je dosaženo
v podstatě kratšího časového intervalu
mezi provedením praoovní operace a dosažením
plné únosnosti než u dosud známýoh
postupů.
Patent CS-255259-B1 (CS)
Inventor: SASEK ANTONIN
IPC: A01H1/04
Filed: 1984-12-07
Abstract: Řešení
se
týká
způsobu
získávání
genotypů
embryí
pšenice
pomocí
bílkovin
­
ných
-
gliadinových
markérů,
což
umožňuje
získání
žádaných
potomstev
rostlin
ve
šlechtitelské
praxi.
Způsob
výroby
pod
­
statně
zkracuje
dobu
mezi
vývojem
nové 
odrůdy
pšenice
a
zavedením
odrůdy
do
praxe.
Patent CS-229384-B1 (CS)
Inventor: POLLAK MATEJ ING
IPC: D06M13/46
Filed: 1983-12-05
Abstract: Účelom vynálezu je zlepfienie finálnych u- žitkových vlastností bytových textilií, predovfietkým zníženie možnosti ichšpine- nia, tvorby elektrostatického náboje a možnosti ich napadnutia mikroorganizmami. Uvedený účel ea dosiahne úpravou bytových textilií pomocou jednej z amoniových zlú- čenln všeobecného vzorca 1 v ktorom znamená , R alkylový radikál e 1 až 18 atomami uhlika alebq benzylový, fenylový, / \ resp. 2-chloretylový radikál chloridový, bromidqvý, jodidový alebo metylsulfétový anion a bez medzisušenia textilie následnou aplikáciou vodnej suspenzie montmorillonitu álebo kaolinitu. Takto upravený textilný substrát se usuší.
Patent CS-245295-B1 (CS)
Inventor: LAZAREV JURIJ P
IPC: F02M35/14
Filed: 1982-12-28
Abstract: Řešeni patří do strojírenství.
Cílem je zvýšení spolehlivosti čističe
vzduchu.
Stanovený cíl se dosahuje tím, že
v čističi vzduchu pro spalovací motory,
obsahujícím válcové pouzdro a nástavec
tlumící hluk, umístěný konzolově vůči
válcové ploše a ohnutý v rovině kolmé k ose
pouzdra. Nástavec se skládá ze záběrová
části, jejíž geometrické osa je na kružnici
o poloměru R-j = /1,2 - 2,5/ Rc, kde
Rc je poloměr válce a připojené části,
spojená přímo s pouzdrem, jehož geometrická
osa je na kružnici o poloměru Rn, jejíž
Střed je na válcové ploše pouzdra a
velikostí je rovna kratší vzdálenosti
mezi plochou pouzdra a geometrickou osou
záběrové části.
Patent DK-174197-B1 (DK)
Inventor: LUDLOW IAN KEITH
IPC: G01N15/00
Filed: 1990-05-08
Granted: 2002-09-16
Abstract: A portable particle analyser is compact and can determine the size, geometry and number of particles in a sample of fluid. A laser beam 15 intercepts the flow of fluid 17 at the first focal point of a parabolic mirror 11. Light is scattered and collected by radiation collectors 13 and low angle scattered radiation is detected in a second chamber 19 by reflection by an ellipsoid mirror 20 towards a radiation collector 21. Photomultiplier units 23 convert the radiation collected into electrical signals for analysis.
Patent DK-167098-B1 (DK)
Inventor: GRANZER ERNOLD
IPC: A61K31/505
Filed: 1986-06-26
Granted: 1993-08-30
Abstract: 4-Amino-2-(imidazolidin-2-on-1-yl)-5-(3-trifluoromethylphenylaminocarb onyl)pyrimidine of the formula I    <IMAGE>  (I)  in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the indicated meanings, and their physiologically tolerated acid addition salts for the prophylaxis and therapy of thromboses, and the use of these compounds for the preparation of a medicament for the prophylaxis and therapy of thromboses are described.
Patent DK-173678-B1 (DK)
Title: New serine protease inhibitor protein - inhibit pancreatic elastase, leukocyte elastase, cathepsin G and trypsin
Inventor: THOMPSON ROBERT C
IPC: C07K14/81
Filed: 1986-08-06
Granted: 2001-06-11
Abstract: Serine protease inhibitor protein (I) comprises a purified, single-polypeptide-chain protein, contg. at least one side possessing serine protease inhibitor, and exhibiting homology to the native serine protease inhibitor isolated from parotid secretions. (I) comprises the following aminoacid sequence. R1 and R7 each=opt. substd. aminoacid residues or derivs.; R2-R6 and R8 and R9 each=methionine, valine, alanine, phenylalanine, tyrosine tryptophan, lysine, glycine or arginine.
Patent FI-102617-B1 (FI)
Inventor: CASTELLINO FRANCIS J
IPC: C12N9/68
Filed: 1990-11-30
Granted: 1999-01-15
Abstract: A cleavage-resistant plasminogen molecule is provided that is conveniently produced in recombinant cells by expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding the plasminogen molecule. Preferably the plasminogen is a sequence variant with a modification in its two-chain cleavage site. The plasminogen molecule may be purified, acylated, complexed with acylated or non-acylated fibrinolytic enzymes, and formulated into pharmaceutical compositions for use in thrombolytic therapy.
Patent IE-49989-B1 (IE)
Title: Plasmid vectors,production and use thereof
IPC: C12P19/34
Filed: 1980-05-28
Abstract: A plasmid having an insertion site for a eukaryotic DNA fragment adjacent to a bacterial promoter and downstream from a prokaryotic ribosome binding site and initiator codon such that the bacterial promoter controls transcription and translation of an inserted DNA fragment is disclosed. The production and use of such plasmids is also disclosed. In general terms, one aspect of the present invention relates to a series of plasmid vectors having the basic characteristic of a Hind III insertion site adjacent to a tryptophan promoter and also a gene for tetracycline resistance. The plasmid vectors are by virtue of the structure thereof ideally suited to receive at the Hind III site an inserted eukaryotic DNA fragment the transcription and translation of which is under the control of the tryptophan promotor.
Patent IE-53225-B1 (IE)
Title: Novel microbicidal arylphenyl ether derivatives,production thereof and use thereof
IPC: C07D249/08
Filed: 1982-05-11
Abstract: The invention relates to novel arylphenyl ether derivatives of the formula wherein Y is -CH= or -N=, Ra and Rb, each independently of the other, are hydrogen, halogen, C1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy or nitro, Ar is phenyl or naphthyl, each unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by halogen, C1-C7alkyl, C1-C7alkoxy, nitro and/or CF3, U and V, each independently of the other, are C1-C12alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by halogen or C1-C6alkoxy, or together form one of the following alkylene bridges wherein R1 and R2, each independently of the other, are hydrogen, C1-C12alkyl or C1-C12alkyl which is mono- or polysubstituted by halogen; phenyl or phenyl which is mono- or polysubstituted by halogen and/or C1-C3alkyl; or are the -CH2-Z-R7 group, wherein Z is oxygen or sulfur and R7 is hydrogen, C1-C8alkyl or C1-C8alkyl which is substituted by C1-C2alkoxy; C3-C4alkenyl, prop-2- ynyl, 3-haloprop-2-ynyl, phenyl or phenyl which is mono- or polysubstituted by halogen, C1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, nitro and/or CF3; benzyl or benzyl which is mono- or polysubstituted by halogen, C1-C3alkyl and/or C1-C3alkoxy, R3, R4 and R5, each independently of the other, are hydrogen or C1-C4alkyl, the total number of carbon atoms in R3, R4 and R5 not exceeding 6, and R6 is hydrogen or C1-C3alkyl, together with the acid addition salts and metal complexes thereof. These compounds may be used in agriculture or related fields for controlling phytopathogenic microorganisms, and as antimycotic and/or anticonvulsive and anxiolytic agents in the pharmaceutical field, for example for controlling parasitic fungi in warm-blooded animals and/or for treating different forms of epilepsy, states of anxiety, tension and excitation, and/or manic states of mind.
Patent IE-36719-B1 (IE)
Title: Preparation of n-(1-ethyl-alpha-pyrrolidylmethyl)-2-methoxy-5-sulfonamidobenzamide
IPC: C07F9/572
Filed: 1972-09-19
Abstract: 1345494 N - (1 - ethyl - alpha - pyrrolidylmethyl) - 2 - methoxy - 5 - sulphonamidobenzamide and a phosphoramide FRATMANN AG 4 Sept 1972 [13 June 1972] 40870/72 Headings C2C and C2P The invention comprises a process for preparing N - (1 - ethyl - α - pyrrolidylmethyl) - 2- methoxy - 5 - sulfonamidobenzamide by reacting N - ethyl - α - aminomethyl - pyrrolidine with phosphorus oxychloride to give N,N<SP>1</SP>,N<SP>11</SP>- (1 - ethyl - α - pyrrolidylmethyl) - phosphoramide and reacting the N,N<SP>1</SP>,N<SP>11</SP>-(1-ethyl-α-pyrrolidylmethyl)-phosphoramide with 2-methoxy-5-sulfonamidobenzoic acid. The phosphoramide may be isolated as a mixture of di- and tri-hydrochlorides.
[GB1345494A]
Patent IE-45443-B1 (IE)
Title: Improvements in or relating to immunolgical agents
IPC: A61K35/56
Filed: 1977-06-27
Abstract: By bringing a schistosomicidal medicament into contact with a total extract of antigens of the corresponding parasite so that the target antigens bind to the medicament, the antischistosomal immunological agent is obtained. Where appropriate, an antischistosomal separation is carried out.
Patent IE-51338-B1 (IE)
Title: Apparatus for the electrolytic deposition of aluminium
IPC: C25D7/06
Filed: 1981-06-24
Abstract: A system for the galvanic deposition of aluminum incorporating a tubular cell through which goods to be treated can be moved in the axial direction. An electrolyte is pumped through the tubular cell preferably with the aid of an electrolyte circulating system which is self-contained. The electrolyte is gated out by means of T-shaped connecting components which are adjoined by airlock arrangements associated with the tubular cell.
Patent IE-40255-B1 (IE)
Title: Improvements in or relating to shaping glass sheets
IPC: C03B23/00
Filed: 1974-07-03
Abstract: A glass sheet is bent by heating the sheet while supported on its lower edge in an near-vertical disposition, closing dies on to the hot sheet at a bending station, and then tilting the dies to bring the sheet to a vertical position before the dies are opened and the sheet is removed vertically for subsequent annealing or toughening, for example by quenching the hot bent glass sheet in a chilling liquid.
[CA1039950A]
Patent IE-62395-B1 (IE)
Title: Cardholders incorporating keepers
Inventor: GODFREY RICHARD LAWRENCE
IPC: B42D107/00
Filed: 1991-04-29
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/GB90/01044 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 24, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 24, 1991 PCT Filed Jul. 19, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/17680 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 28, 1991.In the technical field of known cardholders for devices such as cards with magnetic stripes on which is encoded information and or data in the form of patterns of magnetism, the known cardholders offer no method of 'keeping' (in magnetism terminology) the magnetic patterns. The present invention is characterised by incorporating into the cardholders, keepers in the form of sheets of magnetically soft ferromagnetic material with high resistance. The benefit of the invention is obtained when devices are placed with the reading surface of their magnetized stripes in close contact with the surface of the ferromagnetic material which, making use of known properties of the material, then acts as keeper of the magnetic patterns.
Patent IE-65968-B1 (IE)
Title: Process for obtaining catechin complexes
Inventor: LUNDER TITO LIVIO
IPC: A23L33/15
Filed: 1991-04-30
Abstract: According to the invention green tea leaves are infused in water, the extract is concentrated to a liqueur consistency, this liqueur is extracted with dichloromethane to remove the pigments, the aqueous phase is mixed with purified sea sand to form a paste, the catechin complexes are eluted with acetone and the acetone is evaporated off to obtain a powder.
Patent IE-47170-B1 (IE)
Title: Phosphonoacyl prolines and related compounds
IPC: C07F9/572
Filed: 1978-08-09
Abstract: {PG,1 New phosphonoacyl prolines and related compounds have the general formula {r1 {tc,1 {rb R{HD 1{L O{AB,6 {M,1 {AB,A {SB,36 R{HD 2{L O{MR,1 {AD,0 O{MR,1 P{AB,4 (CH{HD 2{L ){HD n{ab,4 {m,2 {ab,0 R{HD 3{MR,2 CH{AB,4 CO{AB,4 N{US,20 {SB,9 {RD,0444488BBD {A,5 {BN,8 {SD,15 {SB,4 COOR{HD 4{RE {PS {PS wherein {P1 R{HD 1 {L and R{HD 2 {L each is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, unsustituted or substituted phenyl-lower alkyl, or a metal ion; {P1 R{HD 3 {L is hydrogen or lower alkyl; {P1 R{HD 4 {L is hydrogen, lower alkyl, phenyl-lower alkyl or a metal ion; and {P1 N IS 0 OR 1.
Patent IE-53233-B1 (IE)
Title: Harvester
IPC: A01D34/30
Filed: 1982-07-30
Abstract: A harvester has a reaper knife drive in which bell crank levers (11) connected to the reaper knives (24) are drivable via crank pins (9) and articulated connecting rods (10) from both ends of a drive shaft (3) disposed behind a cutting mechanism trough (2). The levers (11) are disposed beneath the trough (2) and between mounting plates fixed to a frame of the cutting mechanism. The ends of the levers projecting outwards transversely to the travel direction through openings (12) in side walls (7) are connected with the rods (10), and the ends of the levers projecting forwards through apertures (22) in the trough (2) are connected inside the side walls (7) with knife head plates (25) fixed to the knives (24).
Patent IE-53693-B1 (IE)
Title: Triazolobenzaepines, process and intermediate compounds for their manufacture and medicaments containing them
IPC: C07D513/04
Filed: 1982-08-11
Abstract: There are presented benzazepines of the formula    <IMAGE>  I wherein either R1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, 4-pyridyl or the group -(CH2)n-NR6R7 and R2 and R3 together are an additional bond or R1 and R2 together are the oxo group and R3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R4 is phenyl, o-halophenyl or 2-pyridyl, R5 is halogen or nitro and either R6 is hydrogen or lower alkyl and R7 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl or lower alkynyl or R6 and R7 together with the nitrogen atom are 4-(lower alkyl)-1-piperazinyl or 4-morpholinyl and n is the number 0 or 1, and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid additions salts. The compounds possess interesting psychotropic properties, i.e., pronounced anxiolytic properties have been established in the case of certain representative members of this class of substance.
Patent IE-47584-B1 (IE)
Title: Melt-spun acrylonitrile polymer fiber
IPC: D01D5/00
Filed: 1978-11-15
Abstract: Spinning of a melt of water and an acrylonitrile polymer containing hydrophobic moieties through a spinnerette into a steam-pressurized solidification zone results in improved fiber when the amount of water in the melt is in the lower half of the range necessary to provide the melt under the conditions of extrusion, the amount of hydrophilic moieties contained in the polymer are sufficient to control the rate of release of water from the extrudate, the steam conditions in the solidification are sufficient to prevent formation of a separate water phase, and drying of the resulting extrudate under conditions of temperature and humidity to remove water therefrom while avoiding formation of a separate water phase.
Patent IE-72139-B1 (IE)
Title: Promoters of colony stimulating factor activity
Inventor: WOLPE STEPHEN D
IPC: A61K38/19
Filed: 1990-07-09
Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of promoters of myelopoietic blood cell production. In particular, an agent has been discovered that enhances myelopoietic colony stimulating factor activity. The agent comprises cytokines that are also capable of binding to heparin, and inducing localized inflammation characterized by polymorphonuclear cell infiltration when administered subcutaneously. Particular agents comprise the inflammatory cytokines MIP-1 and MIP-2. Diagnostic and therapeutic utilities are proposed, and pharmaceutical compositions are likewise set forth.
Patent IE-72209-B1 (IE)
Title: Processor controlled circuit breaker trip system having an intelligent rating plug
Inventor: DURIVAGE LEON WILLIAM III
IPC: H01H71/74
Filed: 1990-08-30
Abstract: A rating plug circuit is used in a processor-based circuit breaker tripping system having a current sensor for sensing current from a current path. The rating plug circuit includes a printed circuit board and a resistor that is connected to the printed circuit board for establishing a designated voltage in the presence of a predetermined amount of sensed current. A connector, having a plurality of conductive contact points, interconnects the printed circuit board with the tripping system, and a plurality of printed circuit paths are included on the printed circuit board to provide a binary code at the contact points. The binary code indicates the value of the resistor and is read by the processor to analyze the current in the current path.
Patent IE-67803-B1 (IE)
Title: (1H-azol1-ylmethyl) substituted quinoline quinazoline or quinoxaline derivatives
Inventor: FREYNE EDDY JEAN
IPC: A61K31/00
Filed: 1989-11-28
Abstract: Novel (1H-azol-1-ylmethyl)substituted quinoline, quinazoline or quinoxaline derivatives of formula <CHEM> the pharmaceutical acceptable acid addition salts thereof and the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein -X<1>=X<2>- is -CH=CH-, -CH=N-, or -N=CH-; R is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl; Y is hydrogen, C1-10alkyl, C3-7cycloalkyl, Ar<1>, Ar<2>-C1-6alkyl, C2-6alkenyl or C2-6alkynyl;  Z is a radical of formula <CHEM>   <CHEM> which compounds are useful for treating disorders which are characterized by an excessive proliferation and/or abnormal differentiation of epithelial tissues: pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds as an active ingredient and methods of preparing said compounds and pharmaceutical compositions.
Patent IE-62286-B1 (IE)
Title: A method of fabricating optical fibres by the solution-doping technique
Inventor: COGNOLATO LIVIO
IPC: C03B20/00
Filed: 1989-12-04
Abstract: Silica intended to form the core of an optical-fibre preform is deposited as an unvitrified soot inside a reaction tube, where a non-aqueous solution of dopant precursor(s) is then introduced without removing the tube from the lathe.
Patent IE-69677-B1 (IE)
Title: Isatine derivatives their preparation and use
Inventor: WAETJEN FRANK
IPC: A61P25/06
Filed: 1990-11-20
Abstract: A method of treatment with compounds having the formula <CHEM>  wherein R<1> is hydrogen, C1-6-alkyl which may be branched, C3-7-cycloalkyl, benzyl, phenyl which may be substituted, acyl, hydroxy, C1-6-alkoxy, CH2CO2R' wherein R' is hydrogen or C1-6-alkyl which may be branched, CH2CN, CH2CONR<IV>R<V> wherein R<IV> and R<V> independently are hydrogen or C1-6-alkyl, or CH2C(=NOH)NH2; R<2> is hydrogen, benzyl, C1-6-alkyl which may be branched, or C3-7-cycloalkyl; R<4>, R<5>, R<6>, R<7> independently are hydrogen, C1-6-alkyl which may be branched, phenyl, halogen, C1-6-alkoxy, NO2, CN, SO2NR''R''' wherein R'' and R''' independently are hydrogen or C1-6-alkyl, or CF3; or R<6> and R<7> together form an additional 4 to 7 membered ring which may be aromatic or partial saturated and which may be substituted with halogen, NO2, CF3, CN, SO2NR''R''' wherein R'' and R''' independently are hydrogen or C1-6-alkyl, and R<4> and R<5> have the meanings set forth above, are disclosed, as well as pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Certain of the compounds are novel. The compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds are useful in the treatment of central nervous system disorders and especially conditions sensitive to excitatory amino acids.
Patent IE-74223-B1 (IE)
Title: A stackable container in combination with articles carried thereby
Inventor: HUNT MARTYN
IPC: B65D21/02
Filed: 1993-11-03
Abstract: A container has a horizontal platform 10 extending between walls 1 to 4 which extend upwardly and downwardly from the platform to form an upper compartment 11 and a lower compartment 12. The walls present a top rim 5 and a bottom rim 6, each of which extends continuously about the periphery of the container so that two containers may be stacked vertically with the bottom rim 6 of the upper container standing on the upper rim 5 of the lower container and articles in the upper compartment 11 of the lower container can project from that compartment into the lower compartment 12 of the overlying container in the stack. The continuous bottom rim 6 facilitates movement of the container along a roller conveyor. The walls 1 and 7 are provided with apertures 13 which oppose each other so that tines of a forklift can be received in the apertures 13 beneath the platform 10 for the purpose of lifting the container and any similar containers that may be stacked thereon.