Sheet glass supporting rack
AssigneeCobbledick-Kibbe Glass Company
InventorJames T. Hammerel
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Abstract
An outrigger construction that modifies after delivery for a rack used to transport rectangular sections of sheet products such as flat glass is disclosed. Such racks have an A-frame configuration with generally horizontal platforms at the base extremities of each side. Sheet products stacked on the platforms lean against an adjacent inclined side of the A-frame for transportaion of the products. The outrigger construction of the invention provides for installing after delivery vertical columnar members on each side of the A-frame so that the outermost sheet products on the A-frame can be tilted outwardly from their position against the A-frame. The outermost sheets thus lean against the vertical columnar members to allow direct access to interior sheet products on the rack.
Claims5
A rack for supporting rectangular sections of sheet products comprising:
- an A-frame defining opposite downwardly divergent inclined sides;
- means located adjacent the base extremities of each inclined side for engaging the bottom edges of and supporting the primary weight of sheet products stacked thereon, said stacked sheet products adapted to normally lean toward and against an adjacent inclined side of said A-frame;
- at least one substantially vertical columnar member disposed to each side of said A-frame and spaced laterally from the sheet products on said frame;
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- laterally projecting support means provided on each side of said A-frame for supporting each said columnar member at its base in a location spaced laterally outwardly from the base extremities of its adjacent inclined side, whereby sheet products supported on said A-frame can be successively tilted from their leaning position toward and against an adjacent inclined side to a leaning and substantially upright position toward and against an adjacent columnar support.
A system for the transportation and storing of flat glass, said system comprising:
- an A-frame defining opposite, downwardly divergent, inclined sides and having means at the lower base extremities of each inclined side for supporting flat glass stacked thereon so that the flat glass leans against the adjacent inclined side of the A-frame;
- a pair of dollies adapted to support the A-frame for transportation thereof, each said dolly having a pair of laterally disposed upwardly opening slots;
- a set of four vertical columnar members adapted to be placed in the upwardly opening slots in the dollies and extend upwardly adjacent the diverging inclined sides of the A-frame;
- a pair of cross members demountably attachable to the upper end of the A-frame, the extremities of said cross members adapted to demountably engage the upper ends of respective pairs of the vertical columnar members respectively and maintain said vertical members in a substantially vertical configuration;
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- a pair of horizontal members adapted to demountably engage adjacent vertical columnar members on the respective sides of the A-frame to provide a rigid outrigger frame about the A-frame so that flat glass supported against the inclined sides of the A-frame can be tilted outwardly and against the vertical columnar members to provide access to interior sheets of flat glass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.