Patent ID: 8366126

Claim:
A hand truck for the transportation of cable reel-containing containers having a predetermined uniform height, each container having a passageway therethrough, the hand truck comprising: a horizontally disposed flat bottom member for receiving and supporting at least two vertical stacks of the containers, the bottom member having an upper surface; at least one elongate vertical frame member affixed to and extending upwardly from the bottom member; a plurality of horizontal cross members joined to and extending from the vertical frame member, each cross member having a rod-receiving hole formed therein, the holes of the respective cross members vertically spaced apart from each other by the predetermined uniform height, the first rod-receiving hole spaced from the flat bottom member by one half of the predetermined uniform height; and a plurality of elongate, removable support rods each having a shaft and first and second opposed ends, the first end of each support rod adapted to be inserted through at least one passageway formed through at least one of the containers and into a respective rod-receiving hole, ones of the support rods being inserted into ones of the rod-receiving holes to extend horizontally and perpendicularly from the cross members, the second end of each support rod being enlarged relative to the shaft thereof so as to be larger than a diameter of the at least one passageway to thereby affix the at least one container to the respective cross member.