Patent ID: 9643802
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B60P,B65G

Claim:
1. A method of loading and unloading racks of goods on a drop frame trailer with a forklift by lifting and transporting a first rack through a rear trailer door toward an elevated front floor of the trailer, positioning the first rack on an antifriction device that slopes from front to rear on the front floor of the trailer and holding the first rack on the anti-friction device by engaging an upwardly-extending stop with a lower component of the first rack to hold the first rack on the sloping anti-friction device, lifting and transporting a second rack through the rear trailer door toward the elevated front floor of the trailer, positioning the second rack on the antifriction device behind the first rack by pressing the second rack against a rear of the first rack to force the first rack up the sloped anti-friction device until the stop engages a lower component of the second rack, and unloading the trailer by lifting the second rack above the front floor with a forklift to clear the stop, backing the forklift from the front floor and allowing the first rack to move down the sloped antifriction device on the front floor until the first rack engages the stop, removing the second rack from the trailer, and lifting the first rack above the front floor with a forklift to clear the stop, backing the forklift from the front floor and removing the first rack from the trailer.