Patent ID: 8950988
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: B60P,B65G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A bearer system for supporting a removable load comprising: a bearer, and two or more movable bearer supports attached to the bearer; a first enclosed track configured to retain each of the movable bearer supports and to allow the movable bearer supports to be moved in a substantially horizontal plane, and wherein at least part of the track is attached to a substantially vertical supporting structure; a bearer storage track configured to enclose and retain each movable bearer support placed on the bearer storage track; wherein the first enclosed track has only one single branch channel at a point along the length of the first enclosed track between, and displaced from, first and second ends of the first enclosed track; a junction between the bearer storage track and the first enclosed track located at the branch channel, the junction comprising a plurality of sections, comprising at least an acute-angled section into the first enclosed track in which a direction of movement of each movable bearer support is at an acute angle relative to a direction of movement of each moveable bearer support along the first enclosed track; and each movable bearer support being freely movable within the first enclosed track and the bearer storage track across the junction.