Patent · US Expired

Stacking trays

US6129505A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 8, 1998
Grant dateOct 10, 2000
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Expiry dateOct 8, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65D2571/00055
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Stackable trays and methods for stacking the trays are disclosed. A stackable tray has two side walls, each wall having a top channel along its top edge and a bottom channel along its bottom edge, each channel having an inner and an outer channel wall, where the width of two adjacent top channel outer channel walls is less than the width of the bottom channel, whereby two such top channel walls may slide into a bottom channel of a stackable tray of like kind, and where the width of two adjacent bottom channel outer channel walls is less than the width of the top channel, whereby two such bottom channel walls may slide into a top channel of a stackable tray of like kind.

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