Patent ID: 6299184
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: B60P,B62B

Abstract:
In 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 stacks of product are to be sup ported at a level above said van floor and an open front side to permit the unloading of product from said bottom support; the improvement comprising:a. a deck, with foldable outer support leg structure thereon mounted on said open front side of said cart, said deck being movable from a stowed retracted position to an extended generally horizontal aisleway-forming operative position in which laterally aligned opposed like carts in the rows can form a false floor aisleway supported by said leg structure of the carts at substantially the level of said cart bottom supports; andb. linkage connecting said leg structure and cart operative when said deck is moved from stowed to operative position to automatically move said leg structure to vertical deck supporting position.