Loading platform

• US 4,174,045 A
• Filed: 11/29/1977
• Issued: 11/13/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Continental AG
• Original Assignee: Dieter Schiron, Karl H. Heller
• Inventors: Heller, Karl H., Schiron, Dieter
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollard, Steven M.
• Application Number:
  US05/855,929
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• Field of Search: 206/512, 206/511, 220/1.5, 220/4 R, 220/4 F, 220/19, 220/75, 220/76, 217/12 R, 217/43 R, 217/43 A, 217/65
• US Class Current: 220/4.28
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 19/12 Collapsible pallets
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00024 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00059 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00164 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00233 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00288 made of one piece
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00338 contact surface having a discrete foot-like shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00532 Frame structures
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00606 side walls connected via corner posts
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/00676 Structures intended to be disassembled
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2519/0097 through corner posts

Abstract

A preferably metallic platform which is adapted to be stacked and is provided with supports for receiving and supporting another loading platform. The platform also includes side walls which are adapted detachably to engage the insides of the supports. The side walls in the corner regions of their upper edges are positively connected to the supports which in the vertical direction are detachable from the loading platform.

Claims

1. A stackable loading platform, especially metallic platform, having a bottom with a plurality of corners, which includes in combination:

a plurality of supports made of profiled rolled steel beams respectively located at said corners and detachably arranged therein, and a plurality of side walls arranged between and detachably engaging the respective adjacent supports, said side walls in the corner regions of their upper edges being positively connected to said supports upon insertion of said side walls from below, said supports being selectively movable in the longitudinal direction thereof away from said bottom for removing said supports from said platform, said side walls being releaseable from said supports which are shiftable at right angles thereto.

2. A stackable loading platform in combination according to claim 1, in which said supports are profiled beams of an angular cross section, and which includes cover means respectively arranged at the free ends of said supports, the upper edge of said side walls in the region of said supports being provided with upwardly extending extensions, and said cover means being provided with cutouts for receiving said extensions.

3. A stackable loading platform in combination according to claim 2, in which the corner portions of said bottom comprises sleeve means for receiving the lower ends of said supports so that the cross sectional angle of said supports faces the loading space of said platform.

4. A stackable loading platform in combination according to claim 1, which within the region of said bottom is provided with abutment means for receiving lifting forces exerted upon said abutment means.

5. A stackable loading platform in combination to claim 4, in which said abutment means include cutouts provided in said supports.