Patent ID: 7347654
Filing Date: 2008-03-25
Classification: B65D,B65G

Abstract:
1. A stacking post for container chassis, comprising a vertical grooved body with a U-shaped section, between walls of which pallets are linked according to axes perpendicular to said walls, which project from the body in a portion having a width that is greater than a width of said body and can swing between an extracted position in which said pallets extend outside the grooved body, and another retracted position in which said pallets are folded against said body, wherein one of the walls of the grooved body has externally attached along the length thereof a shifting rake having on its front longitudinal edge transverse notches with a width that is slightly greater than a thickness of the pallets; the rake of which is supported by two levers, an upper lever and another lower lever, which are linked at an intermediate point to the wall of the body, whereas said levers whereas they are linked to the rake at one of their ends and to a bar at an opposite end which is parallel to the rake and can shift longitudinally; the levers of which swing between two full positions, an inoperative position, in which teeth of the rake do not frontally project from a front longitudinal edge of the wall of the body which said rake is attached to, and another active position in which the teeth frontally project with respect to said wall edge and ones of the notches separating every two consecutive ones of said teeth are opposite to the pallets in the extracted position thereof so as to brace an opposite edge of the pallet portions.