TRANSPORTABLE CONTAINER UNIT Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC E04B1/343 

FIELD: building, particularly movable transformable container-type building structures, which may be used as residential cabinets, namely temporary cabins for seasonal worker living and vending kiosks, as well as covers for manufacturing equipment storage and operation.

SUBSTANCE: container unit is collapsible. Container comprises frame including rectangular ceiling and floor frames and vertical posts, which connect ceiling and floor frames with each other at frame corners. The container also includes side and end walls formed of separate vertical panels connected one to another by side ends. Upper structure, which defines container ceiling, and lower structure, which creates floor thereof are formed of separate horizontal panels joined with each other by side ends. Longitudinal frame beams are length-adjustable and are provided with parallel longitudinal guiding slots created on beam sides facing each other and divided with partition. Vertical side wall panels and horizontal panels of upper and lower structures are inserted in outer or inner guiding slots of longitudinal frame beams and may slide along the slots. The container unit is provided with additional vertical side wall panels and additional horizontal panels of upper and lower structures, which are installed in inner or outer guiding slots of longitudinal frame beams so that the panels may slide along the slots.

EFFECT: extended operational capabilities due to possibility of inner container room volume regulation as desired.

8 cl, 4 dwg