Reinforced collapsible container

Claim 1

A reinforced, collapsible, reuseable container, comprising, in combination, a first pair of opposed side walls, said walls being pivotally interconnected along lateral upright, adjacent edges thereof, said first pair of walls being simultaneously foldable so that said second pair of walls are movable from an open, spaced apart condition, to a closed, closely positioned condition, a bottom wall, said bottom wall being hingedly interconnected to the lower edge of one of said second pair of walls, and a rigid, reinforcing frame fixedly secured to the underside of said bottom wall, said frame including rigid frame members which are rigidly secured to the entire outer perimeter of said bottom wall for reinforcement thereof, said frame including a first pair of rigid frame members rigidly secured to the underside of said bottom wall along a first pair of opposite edges thereof, and a second pair of rigid frame members rigidly secured to the underside of said bottom wall along the other pair of opposite edges of said bottom wall, at least one of said pairs of rigid frame members being constructed and arranged to define a skid for raising the bottom wall of said container above ground level and for defining means for receiving forks of a fork lift, said fork lift receiving means including openings for receiving said forks both from a direction transverse to said first pair of walls and to said second pair of walls.