Patent ID: 8490552
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: B65D,B65F,E21B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A cargo rack comprising: a) a frame having a front, a rear, and upper and lower end portions; b) the lower end portion of the frame having a perimeter that includes a plurality of beams with a floor providing multiple load holding positions, each configured to hold a load module; c) a plurality of at least four load modules that are supported with the frame during use; d) the frame including a plurality of side walls that attach to and extend upwardly from the perimeter beam base and including at least left and right side walls, the frame having four corners with a corner column at each corner; e) at least one intermediate column connected to a perimeter beam and positioned in between two corner columns; f) the upper end portion of each side wall having an upper horizontal beam that connects the upper end of each corner column to each intermediate column; g) a plurality of gates that are movably mounted to the frame, each gate being movably between open and closed positions, each gate spanning in a horizontal direction from a corner column to an intermediate column: and h) multiple reinforcements that connect each intermediate column to corner columns on side walls that do not have gates, including reinforcing beams that extend between a corner column and an intermediate column at a position in between a perimeter beam and the upper horizontal beam; i) wherein the gates enable any one of the four modules to be removed laterally with a fork lift when a selected said gate is in the open position and without removing any other module.