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A disposable container assembly which is especially useful for containing, shipping and dispensing liquids or semi-liquids in bulk. It comprises a knocked-down fiberboard container body and end structure which can be set up on a pallet into a substantially rigid multi-sided polygonal drum-like conta

A disposable container assembly which is especially useful for containing, shipping and dispensing liquids or semi-liquids in bulk. It comprises a knocked-down fiberboard container body and end structure which can be set up on a pallet into a substantially rigid multi-sided polygonal drum-like container for receiving a flexible plastic bag that is to be filled with the substance to be dispensed. The bag is provided with a dispensing spout that is locked in dispensing position in one side of the fiberboard container to hold the bag in position in the container during filling, with its outer end exposed and which has a diaphragm type seal at its inner end. For dispensing, normally this seal is ruptured by a special cooperating probe which is inserted through the exposed outer end of the spout to withdraw the contents of the bag but in other cases the bottom of the bag can be ruptured directly through an opening in the pallet. The drum-like fiberboard container is secured in an upright position to the pallet by a stabilizing system so that twisting or tilting on the pallet will not occur and undue distortion or bulging of the relatively flexible fiberboard walls of the container will not occur as a result of surging of the contents during shipping and handling. This arrangement also permits stacking of several of these container assemblies.

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A container and support assembly including: a disposable fiberboard assembly comprising a tubular body of fiberboard or the like composed of a plurality of vertical panels hinged together at vertical hinge joints to form a multi-sided polygonal body of tubular form open at both its upper and lower e

A container and support assembly including: a disposable fiberboard assembly comprising a tubular body of fiberboard or the like composed of a plurality of vertical panels hinged together at vertical hinge joints to form a multi-sided polygonal body of tubular form open at both its upper and lower ends which is set up from a blank folded flat at opposed hinge joints, a bottom tray of fiberboard or the like with upstanding flanges hinged to a flat disc-like bottom wall which has an outer polygonal periphery corresponding substantially to that of the tubular body and with flanges hinged thereto at horizontal hinge joints and being set-up from a flat blank with the flanges turned upwardly from the disc-like bottom, a surrounding tie-band securing the flanges in upstanding position, said tubular body being telescoped downwardly into the tray with its vertical panels within the corresponding upstanding flanges of the bottom tray and having its lower end resting on the bottom disc-like wall of the tray, a pallet on which said tray disc-like bottom wall rests, a cap of fiberboard or the like with depending flanges hinged to a disc-like top wall which has an outerpolygonal periphery corresponding substantially to that of the tubular body and with flanges hinged thereto at horizontal hinge joints and being set-up from a flat blank with the flanges turned downwardly, a surrounding tie-band securing the flanges in depending position, said cap being telescoped downwardly over the upper end of the tubular body with its depending flanges overlapping the corresponding vertical panels of the body and with its disc-like top wall resting on the upper end of the body; and stabilizing means for securing the fiberboard assembly to the pallet comprising tension members at angularly-spaced positions around the tubular fiberboard container body extending completely vertically around the cap and along the vertical panels of the body and tightened and secured to the pallet to clamp these members axially together; said tubular body having flanges at its lower end hinged to the corresponding panels at horizontal hinge joints and turned inwardly horizontally so they will rest on said disc-like bottom wall of the tray; said stabilizing means also including an upper stabilizing frame in contact with the flat disc-like top wall of the cap, said frame including frame members disposed in angular relationship across said flat top wall of the cap to provide outwardly-extending arms which extend to the edge of the cap, said pallet being of a size to extend to the edge of the tray, said pallet having an upper support surface and spaces therebeneath, said tension members extending vertically completely around the stabilizing frame along the arms thereof and beneath the support surface of the pallet and through the said spaces thereof; said arm-forming frame members comprising a pair of laterally-spaced parallel slats extending across the top wall of the cap and disposed just laterally outwardly of opposed depending flanges thereof, and a single slat disposed at right angles to the pair of slats and extending across the top wall of the cap so that it is intermediate the opposing depending flanges thereof, a single tension member extending over the latter slat and vertically along the corresponding opposed panels of the body as well as beneath the pallet, and a pair of tension members extending over the first-mentioned pair of slats and extending vertically just laterally outwardly of the hinge joints of the opposed panels of the body and beneath the pallet.