Patent ID: 8100264

Claim:
An intermediate bulk container comprising a storage container which is made from a suitable flexible material, a substantially rectangular forklift pallet base member which is made from a suitable plastic material and includes two pairs of parallel sided fork tine apertures with one pair of apertures extending across the pallet base from opposite sides of the base and the other pair from the remaining opposite sides to define four corner load supporting plinths and a single plinth between each pair of corner plinths, at least eight pole engaging sockets on an upper surface of said pallet base member which are arranged in a spaced relationship about a periphery thereof, at least eight metal poles, the lower end of each of which is engageable with a pole engaging socket on the pallet base member, a rigid pole location member which has substantially the same outer shape as the pallet base member and includes a central opening through which the storage container may be filled, at least eight pole engaging sockets in which the upper ends of the poles are releasably engageable, formations which project upwardly from said rigid pole location member and are engageable with recesses in an underside of the pallet base member which are vertically aligned with the formations on the pole location member so that in a vertical stack of the containers the formations on the pole location members will be releasably located in the recess formations in the pallet base plinths to prevent horizontal transverse dislocation of the containers from one another in the stack, and pole bracing means connecting a pair of poles on at least two adjacent sides of the container to each other with the bracing means consisting of two elongated tension resisting members which are attached to and extend diagonally between the upper and lower end portions of the pair of poles to which they are connected, said tension resisting members being flexible and slack in an assembled state wherein said slack in said tension resisting members is taken up upon tilting of said metal poles relative to one another in use to hold the poles in the planes in which they are located in the assembled container, being perpendicular to the base and pole locating member.