E21B 19/146
Carousel systems, i.e. rotating rack systems
Official title: {Carousel systems, i.e. rotating rack systems}
E21B19/146 (Carousel systems, i.e. rotating rack systems) appears on 116 US grants and 110 published applications in this corpus.
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