Stackable transport and storage container

Claim 1

A transport and storage container for nestling with like containers and for the stacking of like containers thereon, the container comprising a bottom and a plurality of walls in slight tapered fixed relationship fixedly connected to said bottom, a plurality of pedestals hingeD to at least some of said walls and deflectable from a position in which each pedestal lies outside the horizontal outline of the container into a position wherein the pedestal projects into the outline to support a similar container stacked thereon, said walls, said bottom and said pedestals being unitarily formed from synthetic resin and said pedestals being provided at least at two diagonally opposite corners of the container, said container having a rectangular plan configuration, said pedestals each comprising at least one strip unitarily hinged to a respective wall by a thin vertical web of the synthetic resin and deflectable from a position in which the strip is generally coplanar and flush with its respective wall into a position wherein said strip extends generally transversely to its respective wall, said strips extending vertically, said walls having recesses accommodating said strips in the first-mentioned position, and means for releasably retaining each strip in its last-mentioned position.