Container and method for transporting live crustaceans
CA 2133000 A1 · Owner: Flynn, Thomas Sheridan · Inventors: Flynn, Thomas Sheridan
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This invention provides a container and method of transport for transporting lobster and like live cargo. The container comprises a bin stackable on similar bins with a divider assembly mountable within the bin. The divider assembly has runner partition walls to extend the full extent of the bin in one direction; and cross partition walls to extend the full extent of the bin at right angles to the runner partition walls to divide, the bin into compartments of a size to receive individual lobsters. After the partition walls have been mounted into the bin to divide the bin into compartments of a size to receive a single lobster; a lobster is loaded into each compartment of the bin. The bin is …
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- Filed September 27, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 27, 2014.
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