Patent ID: 8881898

Claim:
A wheel storage and transport frame comprising: a floor; a plurality of forklift pockets located on the front, rear and sides of the floor, a first corner pillar fixedly attached to the floor; a second corner pillar fixedly attached to the floor; a third corner pillar fixedly attached to the floor; a fourth corner pillar fixedly attached to the floor, wherein the floor generally extends from the first, second, third and fourth corner pillars and provides a surface configured to support the weight of cargo stored and/or transported in the wheel storage and transport frame; a first end wall fixedly attached to the floor and the first and second corner pillars; a rear wall fixedly attached the floor and the second and third corner pillars; a second end wall fixedly attached to the floor and third and fourth corner pillars; a rotatable front panel rotatably attached to the floor via at least one hinged element, and adjacent to the first and fourth corner pillars, the bottom of the rotatable front panel remaining generally parallel to the floor, and the top of the rotatable front panel also remaining generally parallel to the floor and also moveable in generally a circular path; a first rear attachment means removeably attachable to the wheel storage and transport frame; a first strap attached to the first rear attachment means; a first front attachment means attached to the first strap, and removeably attachable to the rotatable front panel; a first tensioning means in communication with the first strap, and attached to the wheel storage and transport frame, where the first tensioning means is a tensioning buckle; a second rear attachment means removeably attachable to the wheel storage and transport frame; a second strap attached to the second rear attachment means; a second front attachment means attached to the second strap, and removeably attachable to the rotatable front panel; and a second tensioning means in communication with the second strap, and attached to the wheel storage and transport frame, where the second tensioning means is a tensioning buckle; and wherein the rotatable front panel is configurable to be held in place by the first front attachment means, first strap, first tensioning means, and the second front attachment means, second strap, and second tensioning means such that the top of the rotatable front panel is generally inside the perimeter defined by the first, second, third and fourth corner pillars, and the rotatable front panel forms a generally an acute angle with the floor.