48×40 Rigid Bulk Container, 36 in, Drop Door

A closed bulk container has to be tipped or lifted to empty it. This one does not. Release the two steel rods and the panel drops clear, so the contents can be reached, raked or scooped from standing height.

The panel is 370 mm deep measured down from the rim, which the drawing dimensions directly. That is the working opening you get in the top of the wall.

This matters most where a box is emptied part-way and repeatedly, which is the normal pattern in food preparation, on a picking line, or anywhere a forklift tipper is not available.

• Outside 47.24 × 39.37 × 36.02 in (1200 × 1000 × 915 mm)
• Inside 43.70 × 35.43 × 27.56 in (1110 × 900 × 700 mm)
• 185 US gal (700 L)
• 100.31 lb (45.5 ± 0.5 kg)

Of the 36.02 in overall, 33.46 in (850 mm) is the box itself and the remaining 2.56 in (65 mm) is the feet. The wall section is 45 mm at the ends, which is the 90 mm the 1200 mm outside loses against the 1110 mm inside. Dimensions carry a ±5 mm production tolerance.

• Static load 11,023 lb (5,000 kg)
• Stacking load 11,023 lb (5,000 kg)
• Dynamic load 2,205 lb (1,000 kg)
• Racking load 2,205 lb (1,000 kg)

All assume an evenly distributed load. Cutting a door into a wall costs this box nothing on paper: every rating matches the solid-walled RC-121 exactly, including racking.

The base snaps on, and it comes either as two runners or as nine legs. The runner build is the standard one and the one the SKU is named for; the leg build appears on the datasheet and in three of the renders. If you need the nine-leg version, ask us and we will confirm its weight and rating before you order.

Nine feet, 150 mm across, leave clear openings of 375 mm along the long side and 275 mm along the short side.

Two figures are in circulation for this box: 45 kg, and the datasheet figure of 45.5 ± 0.5 kg. We publish 100.31 lb (45.5 kg), the heavier, because understating a tare weight is what over-books a trailer. It is also exactly what the solid-walled RC-121 weighs on the same envelope.

Walls and base are both closed apart from the door, with an external rib grid on the walls and a diamond lattice under the base. Corners are rounded.

Vegetables, fresh and dried fruit, nuts, small parts and loose bulk goods, across the food industry, agriculture and industrial production. It adapts very well to automatic conveying systems, and the material is food-grade.

Handled with a forklift, reach truck or hand pallet jack.

Washable and suitable for disinfection. Resistant to water, to airborne environmental pollutants and to corrosive chemicals.

Logo printed or embossed, both offered, in a 70 × 80 mm panel on the centre pillar of the long wall. RFID transponders can be integrated. Supplied in grey, white, navy or blue, with other colours to order.

104 per jumbo trailer and 84 in a 40 ft high cube, identical to the solid-walled box.