Patent ID: 7455179

Claim:
A shipping container, comprising a pallet having a plurality of slats, each slat having a side and an end wherein said side is greater in length than said end, a perimeter of the pallet defined in part by the side of each outermost slat of said plurality of slats of said pallet, and a first end of a first of said slats that extends beyond the perimeter of the pallet; and a box having at least two opposing side walls, at least two opposing end walls, at least one flap is foldably joined along a fold line to a bottom edge of each side and end wall, said flaps forming a box bottom adapted to rest on said pallet, and at least one tab projecting downwardly from at least one of the side walls and comprising at least one slot therein so as to receive the extended end of the first slat in order to hold the box to the pallet.