Wooden shipping containers

Claim 1

In a wooden shipping container having a pair of wooden walls at an angle to one another, a metal corner piece having a first channel snugly receiving the edge of one wooden wall and extending therealong, and having a second channel facing at an angle with respect to said first channel and snugly receiving an edge of the other wooden wall, an adhesive coating between all contacting surfaces of said channels and wooden walls producing a substantially waterproof construction and forming the sole means for securing the edges of the walls within the channels, said metal corner piece comprising a first metal portion of L-shaped cross section having a relatively long base and a shorter, angularly-bent flange with a corner bend therebetween, and a second metal portion which is of Z cross section nested therein and comprising spaced, parallel flanges connected by webbing, one of said parallel flanges extending along part of the width of the base of the L-shaped portion and having an edge terminating at said corner bend of the L-shaped portion and forming a double thickness at the bottom of one of said channels, there being spot welding intermediate the width of said double thickness portion securing the two metal portions of the corner piece together.