ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,911, issued on March 11.
"Transport container" was invented by Christopher Colin James (Johannesburg).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport container for bulk cargo/materials has a rectangular base and four sidewalls. The sidewalls are hingedly connected to the base and movable from an erect condition, providing a box structure for loading of the container, into a folded flat condition for stacking of the container. The base includes hinged floor for discharge of the particulate material contents by lifting the container with forklift engaging formations at an upper end of two oppositely arranged sidewalls. Forklift sleeves on a...