US 12,187,517 B2
Pallet container
Sebastian Bischoff, Niederkassel (DE); Markus Meyer, Nideggen-Schmidt (DE); and Klaus-Peter Schmidt, Bonn (DE)
Assigned to Mauser Werke GmbH, (DE)
Appl. No. 17/768,739
Filed by MAUSER-WERKE GMBH, Bruehl (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/000179
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/073767, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202019004316.0 (DE), filed on Oct. 18, 2019; and application No. 202019004962.2 (DE), filed on Dec. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0140674 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. B65D 77/04 (2006.01); B65D 19/10 (2006.01); B65D 19/18 (2006.01); B65D 19/38 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 77/0466 (2013.01) [B65D 19/10 (2013.01); B65D 19/18 (2013.01); B65D 19/385 (2013.01); B65D 2519/00009 (2013.01); B65D 2519/00164 (2013.01); B65D 2519/00512 (2013.01); B65D 2519/00532 (2013.01); B65D 2519/00547 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pallet container for storing and transporting fluid or flowable filling materials, the pallet container comprising:
a thin-walled, rigid plastics inner container made from thermoplastic plastics material;
a tubular grid frame which tightly surrounds the plastics inner container as a supporting covering and which comprises horizontal and vertical tubular rods which are welded to each other; and
a base pallet on which the plastics inner container is positioned and to which the tubular grid frame is securely connected,
wherein two rod-shaped transverse cross-members are provided above the plastics inner container, each of the transverse cross-members being fixed at two ends thereof to two opposing side walls of an upper region of the tubular grid frame,
wherein each of the two transverse cross-members comprises one or more first curved portions to thereby form a resilient spring element.