Transport shipping container for personal watercraft
AssigneeUniversal Forest Products, Inc.
InventorsJohn M. Grigsby, III, Carl D. Prentice
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Abstract
A shipping container for a personal watercraft, in which a first and second pair of roller guides attach to a pallet for removably receiving a pair of trusses that support a personal watercraft thereon, the trusses movable between a first position for loading or unloading the personal watercraft and a second position for storing and transporting of the personal watercraft at an oblique angle. A method of containing a personal watercraft in a shipping container is disclosed.
Claims21
A shipping container, comprising:
- a pallet;
- a first pair of roller guides and a second pair of roller guides, the first pair and the second pair spaced apart intermediate opposing ends of the pallet;
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- a pair of trusses each removably received on a respective one of the first pair of roller guides and the second pair of roller guides, the trusses movable from a first position for loading or unloading the personal watercraft seated on the trusses and a second position for storing and transporting of a personal watercraft thereon at an oblique angle relative to the pallet.
A method of containing a personal watercraft in a shipping container for storage and shipping, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a pallet having a first pair of roller guides and a second pair of roller guides, the first pair and the second pair attached in spaced apart relation intermediate opposing ends of the pallet;
- (b) placing one of a pair of trusses on a respective one of the first pair of roller guides and the second pair of roller guides in a first position for loading or unloading the personal watercraft thereon, the trusses movable from the first position to a second position for orienting a transverse axis of the personal watercraft at an oblique angle relative to the pallet for storing and transporting of the personal watercraft seated on the trusses;
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- (c) securing the personal watercraft received on the trusses to the pallet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.