Patent ID: 9630545
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: B60P,B62D

Claim:
1. In a vehicle for shipping multiple cargo containers having various goods stored therein for dropping off at multiple locations, an enclosed cargo space carried by said vehicle, said cargo space having a front side, a pair of laterally spaced sides, and a rear side movable between open and closed positions for movement of said cargo containers in and out of said open position of said cargo space, said cargo space further having a substantially horizontal floor enclosed between said front side, said laterally spaced sides, and said rear side, an improvement for said shipping vehicle, said improvement comprising, in combination, first and second elongated laterally spaced sets of longitudinal tracks securely mounted along said floor, said elongated spaced sets of tracks being positioned along each of said lateral sides and extending from said front side to said rear side of said cargo space, at least one set of transverse tracks mounted on said floor of said cargo space, said transverse tracks operatively interconnecting said first and second sets of laterally spaced tracks, multiple support carriages having upper and lower sides for supporting each of said cargo containers, each of said support carriages having multiple wheel assemblies secure to the lower sides of said carriages for supporting said cargo containers in a substantially upright position, said wheels being sized and shaped for moveably positioning on said tracks, said carriages being movable on said tracks by engagement of said wheels on said laterally spaced tracks and on said transverse tracks, first and second drive mechanisms operably positioned respectively along said first and second laterally spaced tracks, a third drive mechanism operatively positioned along said transverse tracks, a connection mechanism for operably interconnecting said support carriages to said first, second and third drive mechanisms, and a lifting mechanism for moving said tracks between a raised mobile position for movement by said wheel assemblies of said carriages along said tracks and a lowered immobile position on a seat adjacent said tracks, said carriages when tracks are in the raised mobile position, moveable from one position to another position along said sets of laterally spaced tracks and said transverse tracks by said drive mechanisms.