Patent ID: 7866501

Claim:
A transport and storage container for liquids and flowable material, the transport and storage container comprising: a pallet-like support frame, an inner container of plastic material that rests on the support frame and comprises a closable filling socket and a discharge socket to be connected to a discharge fitting, and an exterior jacket in the form of a grid basket or a sheet metal jacket, wherein the support frame has a top supporting the inner container and has corner legs and center legs made of metal that are mounted on top of an underframe made of metal or skids made of metal, plastic or wood, wherein the top of the support frame, the underframe and the exterior jacket of the inner container are attached to the corner legs and the center legs by tubular rivet connections, each tubular rivet connection having at least one tubular rivet stem formed as a monolithic part of or welded to one of a top side or a bottom side of one of the corner legs and the center legs and project upwardly or downwardly from the top side or the bottom side, respectively, and rivet holes provided in the exterior jacket, the top of the pallet-like support frame and the underframe to receive free ends of the tubular rivet stems, wherein each tubular rivet stem passes through at least one of the rivet holes and is deformed to a driven head to provide fastening, wherein each tubular rivet connection fastens the exterior jacket and an exterior edge of the top of the support frame to one of the corner legs or center legs or fastens one of the corner legs or center legs to the underframe.