Tilting support packing apparatus
AssigneeLibbey-Owens-Ford Co.
InventorJoseph G. Koscho
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Abstract
An apparatus having a horizontally disposed manually rockable frame for supporting and tilting a shipping container from its normal upright transporting attitude through an angle of less than 90.degree. to an attitude included from the horizontal for packing glass sheets therein. The glass sheets are manually placed in the shipping container when it is supported in the inclined packing attitude with sheets of separating material interleaved therebetween and, when packed, the container is returned to its upright transporting attitude.
Claims10
A portable, manually rockable packing stand for carrying and tilting a sheet article shipping container between an upright transporting attitude and an inclined container packing attitude, comprising:
- a. a base frame adapted to rest upon a supporting surface and including means by which said base frame can be engaged for lifting and transporting said packing stand;
- b. a pair of spaced-apart, parallel track members affixed to said base frame;
- c. a rectangularly shaped rockable frame carried by said base frame and including means for receiving the supporting legs of said shipping container, said rockable frame receiving said shipping container in an upright loading/unloading position and being manually movable between said upright position and a container packing position;
- d. a pair of spaced-apart curved rocker members affixed to the underside of said rockable frame, each of said rocker members riding on a corresponding one of said parallel track members;
- e. cooperating means on said track and rocker members confining said rocker members to rolling linear movement along said track members;
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- f. said rocker members being configured to provide a shifting fulcrum point remaining substantially beneath the center of gravity of said rockable frame and shipping container carried thereon as they are tilted whereby said rockable frame and shipping container are capable of being manually moved back and forth between said loading/unloading position and said packing position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.