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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2012
David S. Mccue, Manchester, MA (US);
Brent Hild, Belmont, MA (US);
Teodoro A. Mesa, Lynn, MA (US);
McCue Corporation, Peabody, MA (US);
Abstract
A freestanding storage station includes a pair of spaced-apart, generally parallel side members and a roof that is supported by the side members. Each side member includes a cross bar, and at least one saddle-shaped, hollow ballast-receiving member that straddles the cross bar and rests on the ground. When filled with ballast, the ballast-receiving members serve to stabilize the storage station relative to the ground and enable the storage station to resist movement due to environmental winds or collision. The ballast-receiving members include a first ballast-receiving portion and a second ballast-receiving portion, and the ballast member straddles the cross bar such that the first ballast-receiving portion resides on an interior-facing side of the cross bar and the second ballast-receiving portion resides on an exterior-facing side of the cross bar.