Push back pallet rack
AssigneeInterroll Canada Limited
InventorsHans J. Werner, David S. Schut, Anthony W. J. Evers
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Abstract
An improved push back pallet rack for loading and unloading pallets in which parallel channels inclining upward and rearward from a front of the rack on which pallets are stored are joined along their length and have longitudinal grooves, convex within each channel, to provide a lateral bumper guide(s) and a track on which carrier rails to support a pallet are mounted with rollers having concave rolling surfaces to roll on the track and are adapted with self-righting rolling surfaces.
Claims5
A push back pallet rack for loading and unloading pallets characterized by at least one loading and unloading mechanism that includes a matching set of units in which each said unit comprises:
- a plurality of parallel channels longitudinally inclining upward and rearward from a front of the rack said channels being of a length sufficient to store a plurality of pallet loads wherein each said channel is joined along its length to an adjacent channel and has a bottom and first and second sides, is generally U-shaped in cross section, has along at least one side thereof at least one longitudinal groove being convex within said channel to provide a lateral bumper guide, and has a track formed within the bottom of the channel by a longitudinal groove convex within the channel;
- a plurality of longitudinal carrier rails of a length sufficient to support a pallet load, each carrier rail being mounted on a plurality of rollers having concave rolling surfaces to roll on a track in a channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.