Retaining structure for pressurized gas cylinders

Abstract

A retaining structure for a plurality of pressurized gas cylinders arranged in rows includes a lower frame having inner cross members fixed to upright posts and respectively disposed between adjacent rows of cylinders, and outer cross members along the outside of the outermost rows, the cross members having threaded studs at their outer ends for threaded coupling to a pair of end channels to form a rigid frame. An upper frame include generally V-shaped upper cross members arranged with two of them longitudinally aligned between each two adjacent rows of cylinders and threadedly coupled to the upper ends of upright rods which project upwardly from the inner cross members of the lower frame for holding the upper and lower frames in spaced relationship and maintaining the upper cross members in camming engagement with the sloping top walls of adjacent cylinders to wedge the cylinders against the cross members of the lower frame. Each upper cross member may be coupled to one or two upright rods. Each upright rod may be integral with an inner cross member of the lower frame or may be provided with a loop to slidably receive a hook to engage beneath the associated inner cross member of the lower frame.

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