Transport and storage container with sheet-metal floor

Abstract

A transport and storage container has an annular and erect outer wall constituted as a grid of welded-together vertical and horizontal bars and having a lower edge provided with a lower-edge bar and an upper edge provided with an upper-edge bar, a normally horizontal and generally rectangular sheet-metal floor plate having an inwardly open C-section outer rim engaged over the lower-edge bar, and a flexible inner vessel enclosed by the outer wall and resting on the floor plate. The floor plate has four sides including two opposite sides formed with the C-section outer rim. In addition another of the sides is also formed with the C-section rim and a fourth side is free of the C-section rim and the fourth side of the floor plate is formed with outwardly projecting tabs that engage over the lower-edge bar. This makes assembling the container a simple matter of sliding the plate parallel to its opposite sides underneath the outer wall with the rims engaging over corresponding sections of the lower-edge bar until the tabs engage over and past at least one further section of the lower-edge bar. The tabs can be bend down over the fourth side to lock the assembly permanently together.