Container for treating and transporting industrial waste sludges

Claim 1

A transportable sludge container for draining a major part of the liquid settling out of the sludge directly on the premises of a sludge collecting site, said container comprising: an enclosing wall including a front wall, a back wall, two side walls joining the front and back walls together, and a rectangular-shaped bottom wall, said bottom wall being shaped to slope downwardly toward each of said side walls from a central, longitudinally extending ridge and including draining areas between each of said side walls and said sloping bottom wall for passing the sludge liquid directed thereto by the sloping bottom wall; means beneath the bottom wall for detachably mounting the container onto a truck platform; means secured to the front wall for pulling the container onto the truck platform to transport it wherever desired, said means being also useful for retaining the container on the platform during its transportation and during dumping of the sludge, and for subsequently unloading said container from said platform at the same and at other sludge collecting sites; and, means for opening and closing the back wall of the container to dump out the sludge contained therein whenever desired.