Bulk material container

Claim 1

A bulk material container having two cells laminated together along one of their respective walls to form a double thickness center partition, said container also being formed with double thickness side and end walls having no external manufacturer's joint, the container comprising: (a) a first cell formed from a series of hingedly connected wall panels consisting of a first partition panel, a second outer wall panel, a third outer wall panel, a fourth outer wall panel, and a fifth partition panel; (b) a second cell formed from a series of hingedly connected wall panels consisting of a sixth partition panel, a seventh outer wall panel, and eighth outer wall panel, a ninth outer wall panel, and a tenth partition panel; (c) a pair of reinforcing liners, each liner being formed from a series of three hingedly connected wall panels, one of said liners being laminated to the second, third, and fourth outer panels of the first cell and the other of said liners being laminated to the seventh, eighth, and ninth outer panels of the second cell; (d) a double thickness central partition formed by an edge of said first and fifth partition panels of said first cell abutting to form a juncture and an edge of said sixth and tenth partition panels of said second cell abutting to form a juncture, the junctures being offset a pre-determined distance so that the first partition panel of said first cell is laminated to a portion of said tenth partition panel of said second cell and the sixth partition panel of said second cell is laminated to a portion of the fifth partition panel of the first cell, the remaining portions of the fifth and tenth partition panels also being laminated together to complete the formation of the central partition of the bulk material container.