Claims
- 1. A container for low level waste materials comprising:
- a rectangular shell having an open top;
- a rectangular lid detachably coupled to the shell over the open top, the lid including a planar member having an outer surface and an inner surface, and a frame continuously welded to the inner surface of the planar member along a periphery thereof,
- the frame including a rectangular outer section having four corners, a centered longitudinal beam extending between and connected to opposite sides of the rectangular outer section and opposite sides of the longitudinal beam, and four diagonal braces respectively connected to the longitudinal beam and the four corners of the rectangular outer section of the frame, and
- a horizontal band continuously welded to an outer surface of the shell, extending completely around the shell, the horizontal band including four sections interconnected at adjacent ends, each section including first and second nested pieces of angle bar welded to the shell along at least two edges of at least an outer one of the two nested pieces of angle bar.
- 2. A container according to claim 1, wherein the shell includes a frame having a lower rectangular portion, an upper rectangular portion, and four vertical supports interconnecting the upper and lower rectangular portions.
- 3. A container according to claim 2, wherein the lower rectangular portion of the shell frame includes four horizontally oriented pieces of angle bar welded together at adjacent ends, the upper rectangular portion of the shell frame includes four horizontally oriented pieces of square tube welded together at adjacent ends, and the four vertical supports include four vertically oriented pieces of angle bar welded at lower ends thereof to the lower rectangular portion of the frame and at upper ends thereof to the upper rectangular portion of the shell frame.
- 4. A container according to claim 3, wherein the shell further includes a bottom wall, two opposite side walls and two opposite end walls, the bottom, end and side walls being welded along two continuous weld lines to corresponding ones of the vertically oriented and horizontally oriented pieces of angle bar.
- 5. A container according to claim 1, wherein the shell further comprises a bottom wall having an outer surface, and a plurality of fork lift attachments connected to the outer surface of the bottom wall.
Government Interests
This invention was made with Government support under contract DE-AC05-840R21400 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. and the Government has certain rights in this invention.
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Drawing of a Container From Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc. p. 1 Apr. 28, 1992. |