Patent ID: 6520515
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: B60P,B62B

Abstract:
A method of constructing a product transport cart, supported for travel on wheels 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, comprising:a. providing a cart having a bottom support member on which stacks of products can be supported at a level above said floor of the van body, and which has side and back members for retaining said products, said cart having an open front side to permit the unloading of products from said bottom support member; b. providing a front deck for said cart connected to said cart and movable from a stowed retracted vertical position in which said deck partially closes said open side of the cart to an extended generally horizontal operative position which can assist like carts in the rows to form a false floor aisleway at generally the level of said cart bottom support member; c. providing pivotal leg structure for the front of said deck which is movable from a folded to a generally vertical position for supporting said deck on the floor of said van; and d. providing connecting linkage between said leg structure and cart operative when said deck is moved from stowed to operative horizontal position to automatically move said leg structure to vertical deck supporting position from said folded position.