Shipping container

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A SHIPPING CONTAINER COMPRISING A RECEPTACLE CONSISTING OF THREE-LOCKED-TOGETHER BUT SEPARABLE UNITS, TWO OF SAID UNITS BEING ALIKE AND INTERCHANGEABLE, SAID TWO UNITS CONSTITUTING TWO HALF SECTIONS OF A FRAME PORTION OF THE CONTAINER, EACH HALF SECTION CONSISTING OF A FLAT RIGID SIDE BOARD AND TWO RIGID END BOARDS PERMANENTLY CONNECTED THERETO IN ABUTTING RELATIONSHIP BY MEANS OF FLEXIBLE HINGES AND FORMING INWARDLY EXTENDING RIGHT ANGLES THEREWITH, THE FLAT RIGID SIDE BOARDS FORMING PARALLEL SIDE WALLS OF THE FRAME PORTION AND EACH OF THE TWO INWARDLY EXTENDING RIGID END BOARDS FORMING PARALLEL END WALLS OF THE FRAME PORTION, ADJOINING ENDS OF THE INWARDLY EXTENDING END BOARDS HAVING ELONGATED CUTOUTS LOCATED CENTRALLY BETWEEN THE SIDE WALLS, SAID TWO HALF SECTIONS OF THE FRAME PORTIONS FORMING THE CONFINING AND LOAD BEARING UNIT OF SAID RECEPTACLE, AND THE THIRD ONE OF SAID UNITS BEING AN INTEGRAL CORRUGATED CARDBOARD BOTTOM MEMBER COMPRISING A CENTRAL RECTANGULAR BOTTOM PORTION, CONTAINING A SUITABLE PLURALITY OF LOCKING CUTOUTS, TWO END WALLS FORMING UPWARDLY EXTENDING RIGHT ANGLES THEREWITH TO THUS FORM THE OUTER LOCKING END WALL OF THE RECEPTACLE, A LOCKING TAB EXTENDING INWARDLY FROM EACH OF SAID OUTER LOCKING END WALLS AND BENT DOWNWARDLY THROUGH A RESPECTIVE PAIR OF SAID CUTOUT CONTAINED IN THE END BOARDS TO LOCK SAID ENDS IN BUTTING RELATION, TWO EXTENSIONS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID OUTER END WALLS, A SUITABLE PLURALITY OF LOCKING TABS PROJECTING FROM EACH OF SAID EXTENSIONS ARRANGED TO LOCK SAID EXTENSIONS IN PARALLEL POSITION WITH THE OUTER END WALLS AND WHEN INSERTED IN THE SUITABLE PLURALITY OF LOCKING CUTOUT SLOTS CONTAINED IN THE BOTTOM MEMBER, TO THUS RIGIDLY CONTAIN THE TWO INWARDLY EXTENDING SECTIONS OF THE RIGID END BOARDS, WEBS OF THE APPROXIMATE THICKNESS OF THE RIGID FRAME PORTIONS INWARDLY EXTENDING END BOARDS INTEGRALLY CONNECTING THE OUTER END WALLS AND THE EXTENSIONS, THE UPWARDLY EXTENDING SIDE PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL RECTANGULAR BOTTOM PORTION BEING EXTENDED TO PROVIDE STIFFENING MEANS FOR BOTH SAID SIDE PORTIONS AND SAID UPWARDLY EXTENDING OUTER END WALLS.