Mobile carrier for gas cylinders

A mobile carrier, capable of carrying a plurality of gas cylinders, which comprises:

• a generally horizontal first support surface, including a pair of inverted channel sections forming part of the first support surface and adapted to receive the fork-arms of a forklift truck;
• at least three wheel support means rigidly attached to the first support surface, each wheel support means including a rotatably mounted wheel, with the wheel support means being off-set laterally relative to the first support surface and the first support surface being below the top of at least one wheel support means;
• an upright frame rigidly connected to the first support surface (extending around three sides of the carrier) and adapted to restrain gas cylinders carried on the mobile carrier, said upright frame including vertically extended sections, extending upwardly from corners of the first support surface and top restraining sections on three sides of the carrier extending between upper ends of the vertically extended sections, a fourth side, adjacent to a second support surface, being open;
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• the second support surface pivotally connected to an outside edge of the first support surface, along the fourth open side of the carrier, and adapted to be secured to the frame when in an upright position, the second support surface being pivotable between the upright position and a lowered position in which the second support surface is supported on another surface, whereby a cylindrical shaped container may be moved between the mobile carrier and another surface by rolling said container about its axis between the first support surface and the other support surface along the second support surface.