Patent ID: 8863978

Claim:
A pallet container, comprising: a thin-walled, rigid inner container constructed of a thermoplastic material for storing and transporting liquid or pourable contents, a base pallet supporting the inner container, and a trellis tube support casing rigidly connected to the base pallet and tightly enclosing the inner container, said trellis tube support casing constructed of vertical tubes and peripheral horizontal tubes that are welded to the vertical tubes and have a rectangular cross section with four sidewalls, wherein each of the peripheral horizontal tubes comprises a positive-locking clinched joint that is formed by a crimped first end section having an approximately X-shaped reduced tube cross-section and a second end section surrounding the crimped first end section along an overlap extending in the peripheral direction of the respective peripheral horizontal tube, wherein at the positive-locking clinched joint, a top sidewall and a bottom sidewall of the second end section are deformed along the overlap against the approximately X-shaped reduced tube cross-section of the first end section so as to form the positive-locking clinched joint with the approximately X-shaped reduced tube cross-section, whereas an outer sidewall of the second end section remains in its original state and is thus free from deformation resulting from the positive-locking clinched joint along the overlap.