Patent ID: 7150374

Claim:
Apparatus for storing and transporting piece good articles in U-shaped pockets having a flexible bottom and flexible lateral limb sidewalls which articles tend to distort the sidewalls and a transverse wall connecting internal surfaces of said pockets, the sidewalls being suspended in a support frame in the proximity of an upper edge of the pockets and wherein an attachment is provided for stabilizing a lower end of the pockets by providing a defined downward tensioning force sufficient to hold the pockets open during loading, wherein the attachment is mounted to the pockets ( 4 , 5 ) in the proximity of a lateral loading opening ( 14 ) and wherein the attachment is in the proximity of two lower ends of a U-shaped pocket ( 4 , 5 ) said apparatus further comprising openings ( 9 ) in the lateral limb sidewalls ( 11 , 12 ) below the bottom and a bar ( 6 ) extending transversely through the openings in the sidewalls, wherein the weight of the bar provides a downwardly directed tensioning force upon the sidewalls ( 11 , 12 ) of the pockets ( 4 , 5 ).