GB1291274A - An improved load carrying container - Google Patents

Abstract

1291274 Trolleys WCB-CLARES Ltd 19 April 1971 [11 Nov 1969] 55235/69 Heading B7B [Also in Division B8] A load-conveying container such as a pallet or trolley comprises a deck-frame and a tubular wall which can be removably engaged with the deck frame, the wall having a horizontal bar 15 at its lower end and the deck frame having two horizontally spaced side walls shaped internally to form therebetween a curved meander path through which the bar 15 can be passed generally vertically for engagement and disengagement with the deck frame. The meander path is formed between a wall 17 having a protuberance 18 extending longitudinally of the bar 15, and a wall formed in two parts 21, 22, the ends of the path being closed by side plates. A meander path is formed at each end of opposite sides of the pallet or trolley, and each receives a loop of tubing depending from each end of a tubular wall, each loop comprising two spaced vertical tubes 12 and two spaced horizontal tubes 14, 15. After inserting the bar 15 between the wall 17 and the edge 24 of the wall 21, the tubular wall has to be tilted to pass the bar 15 around the protuberance 18 and then moved into the vertical to place the bar 15 between the bottom edge of the wall 17 and part 22 of the wall 21. The horizontal bar of the tubular wall supporting the same on the side plates of the deck frame, whereby the tubular wall is firmly located on the deck frame.