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A glass, an umbrella, a chain.
Also known as: Package handling symbols, Crate handling marks
The set of pictograms on a crate stating how it must be handled.
State how a package must be handled, stored and lifted.
Contexts: Packaging
Pictorial rather than written because a case passes through the hands of people who do not share a language, which is the same requirement that produced the orienteering control descriptions and the signal flags.
Contexts: Packaging
Several are prohibitions drawn as a crossed-out action rather than as an instruction, so the set mixes two grammars — do this, and never do that.
Contexts: Packaging
Pictograms in a bordered square — a stemmed glass, an umbrella, a hook crossed out, a chain — printed or stencilled on the case beside the address.