Patent ID: 8408413

Claim:
A pallet container, comprising: a bottom pallet; an inner container of thermoplastic material, placed on the bottom pallet, for storage and transport of liquid or free-flowing goods; and a lattice tube frame fixedly secured to the bottom pallet and disposed in surrounding relationship to the plastic container to form a support jacket, said lattice tube frame including vertical and horizontal tubular rods welded to one another at intersections, wherein at least the vertical tubular rods have regions of low tubular profile height and high tubular profile height, wherein the regions of low tubular profile height are uniformly linear and positioned outside the intersections, and the regions of high tubular profile height are positioned in an area of the intersections, wherein the vertical tubular rods are configured with two alternating cross sections of different configuration, with a first cross section having a low tubular profile height extending along a first rod length which extends a substantial distance between two adiacent, vertically spaced intersections, and a second cross section having a high tubular profile height which at least partially exceeds the low tubular profile height of the first cross section and extends continuously along a second rod length, which extends across the area of the intersections and is shorter than the first rod length, a first resistance moment against bending of the first cross section and a second resistance moment against bending of the second cross section which is greater than the first resistance moment against bending of the first cross section, and wherein the first rod length is at least twice as long as the second rod length.