Patent ID: 6360903
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: A47B,B65D

Abstract:
A support for casks comprising:a) a base structure having a front face, a rear face, an upper face, and a lower face, said base structure comprising a rectangular platform having four vertices, first and second pairs of stanchions which can be disassembled, said first and second pairs of stanchions being disposed along said front and rear faces, respectively, such that one of said stanchions occupies each of said four vertices, and first and second intermediate stanchions which are complementary to said stanchions, and which can be disassembled, said first and second intermediate stanchions being disposed along said front and rear faces, respectively, substantially halfway between each of said first and second pairs of stanchions; and b) first and second means for forming a mortised connection with a stanchion or an intermediate stanchion of a subjacent support for casks, such that when said support for casks is stacked on top of said subjacent support for casks, a top portion of said stanchion or said intermediate stanchion of said subjacent support for casks engages one of said first and second means; wherein said first and second means for forming a mortised connection are on said lower face of said base structure, and are disposed along said front and rear faces, respectively, substantially halfway between one of said stanchions and one of said intermediate stanchions adjacent thereto.