Abstract: The present invention relates to a bottom chime for a beverage keg. The bottom chime is configured to be push fitted onto the keg, and to subsequently be removable from the keg, for example to enable recycling of the bottom chime separately to the keg. The bottom chime comprises a plurality of inwardly extending engagement elements that are configured to form a snap fit engagement with a corresponding plurality of recesses provided in the body of the keg.

Abstract: A refuse receptacle is disclosed, having a body with an upper and a lower portion, the upper portion having a top rim forming a gusset with a vertical wall and a horizontal wall, the lower portion having a bottom side with a base rim. On the back side of the upper portion is a handle attached to the body of the receptacle. The handle is attached to the upper portion by at least one projecting sidewall. A lid is included, having a convex upper surface and two sets of opposing sidewalk. The opposing sidewalls correspond with the top rim of the body. The lid includes at least one projection to attach to the handle with a securing plate and fastener. The lower portion includes a drainage plug so that liquids within the body can be easily drained. A pair of wheels arc connected by an axle and housed within wheel recesses.

Abstract: A cryogenic liquid storage tank includes a base plate and side wall extending upwardly. The base plate and side wall include an outer leaf enveloping an inner leaf. The outer leaf part of the base plate includes a lower, outer leaf concrete bottom plate on a substrate. The bottom plate is continuous with an outer leaf reinforced concrete layer of the outer side wall. An inward surface of the bottom plate and concrete layer of the outer leaf are lined with a continuous outer leaf metallic membrane. A bottom insulation layer is arranged above the outer leaf metallic membrane on the bottom plate. The inner leaf includes an inner leaf concrete bottom layer on the bottom insulation portion. The inner leaf metal membrane is lined with an inner leaf inner concrete layer. The outer leaf hoop stress reinforced outer concrete wall supporting an insulated dome structure.

Abstract: A cooking utensil for use with an induction cooktop having a cooktop surface and an induction heating coil. The cooking utensil has an inner wall made from an electrically conductive material, an outer wall made from an electrically non-conductive material, and a gap between the inner and outer walls. There is an intermediate wall in the gap. The intermediate wall divides the gap into an inner chamber between the inner wall and the intermediate wall and an outer chamber between the outer wall and the intermediate wall.

Abstract: The container includes a floor and a plurality of side walls extending upwardly from the floor. The floor includes a first panel spaced away from a second panel by a plurality of ribs connecting the first panel to the second panel. The ribs each circumscribe an opening through the second panel.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bottom coupling structure for containers. The bottom coupling structure of the present invention is constructed by assembling a plurality of elements, each of which is made by pressing a plurality of wood slices, thus enhancing durability, water resistance, antibacterial activity, heat insulation ability and sound proofness. Furthermore, because the present invention reduces the weight of a container, portability and manufacturability of the container are superior. Moreover, because all elements constituting the bottom coupling structure are assembled together through fitting processes without welding, the manufacturing process is simplified. As well, thanks to the use of relatively inexpensive wood, the present invention is economical. As such, the present invention provides a bottom coupling structure having enhanced workability, economic efficiency, portability and maintainability.

Abstract: An endcap assembly (10) for attachment to a front end of a stowage bin (12) is provided. The endcap assembly (10) includes an integral inner panel (16) and an outer panel (18) coupled to the inner panel (16). The integral inner panel (16) has one or more reduced thickness portions (26) and one or more brackets (22, 24) extending from the reduced thickness portions (26).

Abstract: A composite sandwich panel (16) having at least one integral fold-up bracket (22, 24) is provided for use in various assemblies. The composite sandwich panel (16) has at least one integral fold-up bracket (22, 24) integrally formed therein and extending therefrom. This composite sandwich panel (16) is comprised of a face sheet material, e.g. a fiberglass material, an aluminum material, and a carbon material, that is placed on both sides of a filler honeycomb material. Preferably, each integral fold-up bracket (22, 24) has at least one locking tab (28) extending therefrom for insertion into at least one anchor slot (30) formed within the composite sandwich panel (16). The engagement between the locking tab (28) and the anchor slot (30) is intended to hold the integral fold-up bracket (22, 24) within a desired position and in a desired shape. Also, the panel preferably has a folding line (26) integrated therein for the purpose of facilitating bending of the composite sandwich panel (16).

Abstract: A cereal sieve bowl for separating cereal morsels from smaller crushed and powdery particulates of cereal in a package of cereal so that a user may enjoy a bowl of cereal without the distasteful smaller crushed and powdery particulates. The device includes a bowl having an upper reservoir designed for holding cereal therein. The bottom of the bowl has an opening therethrough. A collection base is coupled to the bottom of the bowl. The collection base defines a lower reservoir designed for holding crushed and particulates of cereal therein. A separation disk substantially closes the opening of the bottom of the bowl. The separation disk has a plurality of apertures of a predetermined size therethrough to prevent passage of morsels of cereal greater than the predetermined size in the upper reservoir from passing through the apertures into the lower reservoir while permitting passage of crushed and powdery particulates of cereal less that the predetermined size to pass into the lower reservoir.

Abstract: A container for transporting particulate matter is initially in slurry form has a base and a sidewall portion extending upwardly therefrom and is characterized by a downwardly extending, integrally-formed peripheral drainage channel having a drainage opening at a normally lowest point therein. The container bottom is configured to urge liquid from the slurry toward the channel, and the channel is configured to urge the liquid toward the drainage opening. The sidewall portion defines an opening coverable by a lid. A liner may be used to improve the drainage of the liquid from the slurry and from the container, and a plug can be placed in the drainage opening after liquid has drainage from the slurry and the container. A supplemental elevating member can be utilized to elevate the slurry with respect to the channel. A method of use of the container is disclosed.

Abstract: A reusable container unit for flowable materials, having enhanced puncture resistance and leak containment characteristics, and being readily handleable by conventional fork lift or the like equipment, comprising a substantially closed and continuous first wall providing a containment vessel for flowable material, a substantially closed and continuous second wall providing a protective shell surrounding the vessel and spaced therefrom over at least a major portion of the outer surface thereof to provide protective spacing therebetween, spacer elements positioned between the vessel and shell for substantially maintaining the spacing therebetween, at least one aperture in adjacent portions of each of the vessel and shell and adapted to provide one or more access ports for of the vessel, individual closure devices for each of the apertures, a tubular wall extending between and connecting the apertures forming each access port to provide a conduit for the flow of materials into and out of the vessel.

Abstract: A thermal insulating bowl or container which is for keeping the original temperature of the food or beverage contained therein. The thermal insulating container is to prevent heat transfer from occurring by radiation, convection and conduction. This is achieved by having the container with a double-wall structure. The gap between the walls is a vacuum or partial vacuum cavity which encompasses both the sidewalls and the bottom of the container. The cavity may be partially filled with gas such carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) or dry nitrogen N.sub.2. By having this vacuumed or partially gas filled, food and beverage kept in the container can remain warm or cold for an extended period of time.

Abstract: A jewelry tray includes a plastic grid-like frame including a peripheral supporting wall and a grid structure connected therewith, the grid structure including a intersecting bars that define a plurality of openings; a thin sheet of plastic forming a skin on an upper surface of the frame and extending within the openings to define a plurality of recesses, each recess being defined by a peripheral side wall and a bottom wall, each peripheral side wall extending along sides of the intersecting bars and extending beneath the bars for each recess to define undercut portions at a lower end of the peripheral side wall in each recess; a bottom closing member secured to an underside of the frame and including a short peripheral wall and a central wall of a generally planar configuration connected within and to the short peripheral wall, the central wall including a plurality of twist resistance ribs for providing a resistance to twisting of the jewelry tray and the short peripheral wall including a plurality of reinf

Abstract: A pile up tray includes a base piece shaped as a cask, cast to be a bottom of the tray in which a rising double marginal flange is provided and to which at least one other piece is jointed. The other piece forms at least part of the side walls of the tray. The cask is placed inside of the piece or pieces that form the side walls of the tray, overhanding with respect to the lower edge of the pieces that form the side walls of the tray, so that during the piling of a number of trays up, the bottom part of each tray is placed into a mouth of the lower tray. The side walls of the tray can be provided with folding flanges which fold towards the inside of the tray and are fixed to the side walls by glue, to provide the tray with more resistance to compression.

Abstract: A reusable container unit for flowable materials, having enhanced puncture resistance and leak containment characteristics, and being readily handleable by conventional fork lift or the like equipment, comprising a metallic, substantially closed and continuous first wall providing a containment vessel for flowable material, a metallic, substantially closed and continuous second wall providing a protective shell surrounding the vessel and spaced therefrom over at least a major portion of the outer surface thereof to provide protective spacing therebetween, spacer elements positioned between the vessel and shell for substantially maintaining the spacing therebetween, at least one aperture in adjacent portions of each of the vessel and shell and adapted to provide one or more access ports for of the vessel, individual closurer devices for each of the apertures, a tubular wall extending between and connecting the apertures forming each access port to provide a conduit for the flow of materials into and out of the

Abstract: A container includes a main lid for closing the container and an auxiliary lid for closing an opening in the main lid. The auxiliary lid provides access to the container without opening the main lid. The auxiliary lid is hingedly attached to the main lid by a pair of hinges which extend through hinge openings in the main lid and which are releasably secured within the hinge openings.

Abstract: A stackable tray for paper stock, drawings sheets, or the like comprising a bottom panel, opposing side walls extending upwardly from the bottom panel along the side edges thereof, and front and walls extending upwardly from the bottom panel along the front and rear edges thereof. The front wall is comprised of a pair of spaced apart front wall segments defining an opening traversing substantially the length of the tray. The walls define a top ledge extending upwardly and a bottom ledge extending downwardly. The top and bottom ledges are sized and positioned so that the top ledge of one tray is received within and bounded by the bottom ledge of a like tray when the trays are stacked, or vice versa. The bottom panel defines a plurality of recesses aligned in rows and columns. A cross brace traverses each tray and is received within a recess formed in the underside of the bottom panel.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted double-walled ellipsoidal cryogenic storage vessel includes an inner vessel enclosed by an outer shell to form an insulation chamber therebetween. Both the inner vessel and the outer shell are formed in the same manner. An elliptical pressure head of circular cross-section is cut along a diameter to form two end halves. An end wall is secured between the two end halves to form an end, which is secured to an end of a wall like cross-section. This process is repeated with another pressure head to form the other end of the storage vessel. Storage vessels may be constructed of any size desired to allow sufficient ground clearance when mounted under a vehicle.

Abstract: A waste-collecting container for compostable waste, in which the interior consists of two spaces arranged one above the other, the lower space having the purpose of collecting a liquid from the compostable waste and the capability of discharging such liquid. This space is thereby, on the one hand, sufficiently large in order to be able to reliably receive the accumulating liquid, on the other hand, the emptying of both the liquid area and also of the waste container itself is to take place easily and without any problems associated with the waste becoming again mixed with the liquid. The lower space is for this purpose separated by a fork-like grate from the remainder of the container housing, which grate is usually arranged horizontally, however, during emptying pivots about an axle which is horizontally oriented in the container housing. A reliable separation of solid and liquid waste and their complete emptying out of the waste-collecting container is, in this manner, assured.

Abstract: A waste container includes a generally cylindrical double-wall drum having separate spaced-apart inner and outer sidewalls and separate spaced-apart inner and outer bottom walls. The inner and outer sidewalls are continuously connected along their upper ends and the inner and outer bottom walls are connected at a plurality of spaced-apart locations. A double-wall lid is provided to seal the container. A neck portion is formed at the upper end of the drum and includes a series of buttress threads on the interior face thereof adapted to engage buttress threads on the lid. A vertically-oriented annular trough is formed below and inwardly of the threads in the neck portion and is adapted to engage an annular toe depending from the lid. An upwardly projecting annular lid is formed immediately adjacent to and inwardly of the annular trough in the drum portion, so as to form an annular S-shaped surface with the annular trough.

Abstract: A double containment and leak detection apparatus and method including a tank having a bottom and a surrounding shell, with a containment baffle above the bottom and a leak detector in a containment space between the containment baffle and the tank bottom. The containment baffle includes a baffle plate sealingly joined to the interior of the shell to form a sealed containment space between the containment baffle and the bottom. The leak detector is installed in the containment space to detect the presence of stored material held in the tank in the event such material leaks into the containment space. The leak detection means is connected, through a leak-proof access, to means external to the tank for responding to such leaks of stored material so detected inside the containment space. The invention further includes a primary containment, made of liner material, located inside the tank above the containment baffle and within the shell, capable of containing such stored material.

Abstract: An apparatus for the storage and transport of used and unused beverage containers is provided, wherein a matrix of tubular housings are arranged in a plurality of rows, including a central web directed orthogonally and medially of the tubes to secure the tubes together, with the web including a handle at a forwardmost end thereof. The web includes a rear projection, wherein the rear projection includes a plurality of tether lines, with the tether lines fixedly mounting lid members at equal spacings therealong for securement removably to upper terminal end portions of each tube. Lower portions of each tube include bottom lids, wherein the bottom lids are provided for containment of the beverage containers therewithin.

Abstract: A waste-collecting container comprising an upper lid 1 and a lower part 2 which can be closed off by means of the lid. In order to be able to store and collect compostable wastes in the collecting container, the invention provides that an insert floor 4 is arranged in the lower part 2 spaced from the bottom wall 3 of the lower part, and that on at least one inside wall of the lower part 2 there is provided a shaftlike ventilating element 5 so that suitable decomposing operations can be aided by a circulation of air.

Abstract: An extrusion is provided which includes an upper double sidewall and a lower bulbous portion forming an integral pallet structure. This extrusion can be cut to suitable lengths and welded at the corners to form a sealed rectangular container bottom. A bottom panel is welded around its peripheral edge to the extrusion lengths. Reinforcing I-beams can be placed across the bottom and laterally spaced openings can be cut in the ends and sides of the bottom portions for receiving fork-lift tines. These cut-out portions can be reinforced by tubes or channel members, as required. This structure minimizes the critical welding required to make a sealed container bottom, since only the corner welds and the bottom panel welds are located where air leakage can occur.