Patent ID: 6955384

Claim:
A rack system mountable to a horizontal portion of a transport device for storing and transporting construction scaffolding including scaffold panels, scaffold platforms, and scaffold bracing, said rack system comprising: a plurality of upright supports extending upwardly from the horizontal portion of the transport device and being arranged in laterally spaced pairs; a support arm being connected to each pair of said plurality of upright supports at upper end thereof, wherein both ends of each said support arm extends laterally outward from each pair of said plurality of upright supports on opposite sides thereof so as to be configured to receive the scaffold panels on either side of the rack system; a retainer being provided at each end of each support arm and extending upwardly from a top surface of each support arm so as to be configured to prevent the scaffold panels from sliding off of the support arms; means provided on each of said plurality of upright supports for securing the scaffold panels thereto; a plurality of rectangular angle iron frames horizontally disposed and longitudinally extending between said pairs of said plurality of upright supports to form at least two compartments configured to receive the scaffold platforms; the plurality of rectangular angle irons extending forwardly beyond a forward most pair of said plurality of upright supports and extending rearwardly beyond a rearward most pair of said plurality of upright supports, wherein a vertically disposed pair of front corner angles and a vertically disposed pair of rear corner angles are connected to the front ends and the rear ends, respectively, of the plurality of rectangular angle iron frames, the front corner angles being configured to retain the forwardly disposed ends of the scaffold platforms and means for retaining the rearwardly disposed ends of the scaffold platforms being provided on the rear ends of several of the plurality of rectangular angle iron frames; and a trough including side panels secured to the plurality of upright supports and front and side panels secured to the front and rear pairs of corner angles, respectively, which is configured to receive scaffold bracing therein.