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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert J. Welch, Dallas, PA (US);
Joseph R. Petcavage, White Haven, PA (US);
Rakesh T. Patel, Wilkes-Barre, PA (US);
Robert K. Swartz, Dallas, PA (US);
Assignee:
Metro Industries, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47B 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47B 9/00 ;
Abstract
A tray includes a compartment with a bottom surface and perimeter sidewalls, and a passive stop arrangement is provided in the compartment. The passive stop arrangement includes at least a first notch in one of the sidewalls and a stop disposed proximate to the first notch. The tray is especially useful in a tray support system including a chassis having at least two laterally-spaced and vertically oriented racks each having spaced rungs in a mirror-image relationship.