Vacuum container

摘要

Disclosed is a vacuum container for transporting one or more articles in the vacuum atomsphere. To this end, the vacuum container comprises a container body which can be maintained in the air-tight state and which is formed with a hole through which one or more articles are inserted into or removed out of said container body, a gate valve for opening or closing the opening of the container body, vacuum maintaining pump means communicated with the container body in order to maintain the interior thereof at an extremely high degree of vacuum and retaining means disposed within the container body for releasably retaining at least one article. With the vacuum container with the above-described construction, one or more articles which cannot be exposed to the surrounding atmosphere because of various reasons can be transported in the vacuum state in a stable manner.