Hinge assembly for flat component for box or pallet for transporting goods has fourfold hinge with three hinge plates and three hinge pins connected by flexures to hinge clamping plates

摘要

The transport or storage box (1) has sidewalls (3) hinged (4) to a base (2) which can act as a pallet. The pallet has shallow sidewalls with clamping hinge plates at their top edges. Similar hinge plates engage the bottom edges of the sidewalls. Flexures connect three hinge plates and three hinge pins to the clamping hinge plates to make the flexible hinges.