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AssigneeCoca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
InventorsNorman C. Strohfus, Robert W. Grace, David J. Glancy
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A series of transport carts (21) are positioned in side by side relation in fore and aft extending spaced apart rows disposed along a delivery van (22) to leave an aisle (58) between them. The carts have wheel supported frames (28) with bottom supports (131) for the products disposed at a level above the floor of the van and open fronts from which the carts can be unloaded. The carts have rear posts (58) which are disengageably locked in track sections (66, 67) provided in longitudinally spaced relation along the van side walls. Pallets (30) with discs (34) projecting downwardly from the floors of the pallets support the product stacks on the cart bottom supports. A hand truck with a bifurcated nose plate defining disc receiving arms engages under each pallet to enable removal of a pallet and product stack (31) from the cart.
In combination with a transport cart, supported for travel into a van body having a floor, to join like carts positioned in fore to aft extending laterally spaced rows leaving an aisle between them in the van body, the cart having a bottom support on which at least one product configuration is supported on a pallet at a level above said van floor and having an open front side to permit the unloading of said pallet and product from said bottom support;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.