| 摘要 |
A re-usable plastic container for the transportation and handling of articles such as fruit and vegetables, and having a base, two opposed side walls and two opposed end walls, all of which walls are inclined downwardly and inwardly to allow nesting of containers one within the other when necessary. The containers also have support wires pivotally mounted on the end walls of the container to be pivotable between positions hanging down alongside the respective end walls to allow another container to be nested therein, and a position overlying or bridging the tops of the ends of the container to support another container thereon in a stacked relationship. The container further includes an arrangement of reinforcing webs in the side walls beneath the points at which the support wires overlie or bridge the container walls, that is, at the position where the load of one or more containers stacked above will be applied, to assist in the support and distribution of the load. The container is formed from a plastics material of the type having a flexural modulus within the range of 200 to 2,000 megapascals as measured by ASTM.D. 790, and which upon removal of a load has the ability substantially to recover to within 5% of its original dimensions as determined by experimental measurement within an accuracy of +/- 5%, after being subjected to a strain of at least 5%.
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