FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STORAGE AND SHIPPING CONTAINER Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: containers. SUBSTANCE: container has tray 1, a chamber enclosed by plates 2 fastened to angles 3, cover 4 and bottom 6 with partition 7. Plates 2 are made in the form of perforated removable members which have damping members on the inner surface, and stiffening ribs - on the outer surface. The ribs are made in the form of corrugations directed at an angle outside and positioned along the vertical line and on the perimeter of each plane. Bottom 5 of each section has a damping porous spacer, and cover 4 has a seal in the form of inflatable pneumatic chamber 9. Tray 1 has flexible supports-suckers 12 with plug-valves 13. Bottom 4, cover 5 of clutch 6 and angles 3 have slots 16 with outer ribs-corrugations for fastening vertical and horizontal corrugated ends of plates 2 inside. Angles 3 are made removable and perforated along the rib, the height of angles 3 is equal to the height of plate 2 of the side enclosure. The width of the chamber through the inner volume is made a multiple of the height of plate 2 of the side enclosure, and the minimum length of the chamber is equal to the maximum length of the side enclosure. The porous spacer is saturated by a preservative. EFFECT: improved structure. 4 cl, 7 dwg