Disassemblable article transport, storage and handling truck

Abstract

Rising from the opposite ends of an elongated rectangular base structure equipped with casters are two tubular uprights interconnected at their upper ends by a cross bar having opposite overhanging ends and brackets projecting therebeyond. The lower portions of these uprights are detachably bolted to upstanding upwardly convex arcuate braces secured to the opposite ends of the base structure. The cross bar and its end brackets are similarly detachable as a unit from the upper ends of the uprights whereby the truck may be disassembled into a compact space for return to its starting point. The base structure is so constructed as to nest with the base structures of similar trucks, so that when the articles transported from the warehouseto the destination have been delivered by several such trucks, these may be disassembled in the foregoing manner and their base structures stacked one upon the other for compactness of shipment or storage. The base structures are spaced by the casters a sufficient distance above the floor to receive the forks of forklift trucks. This truck is particularly well adapted for handling meat carcasses which have been subdivided into so-called quarters and are to be further subdivided at their destination, whereupon they are suspended one at a time from the overhanging ends of the cross bar.