Land vehicles – Wheeled – Nesting vehicles
Patent
1984-04-24
1986-03-18
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Nesting vehicles
248100, B65B 6704
Patent
active
045763887
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a receptacle support system and more particularly to a support system which will allow receptacles such as bags to be loaded with articles.
In a supermarket and many other types of shops it is conventional to provide shoppers with some form of receptacle in which to take home their purchased goods. It has been conventional to supply large paper bags for such purposes but with the cost of paper increasing it is more economical to supply lightweight plastic bags such as polyethylene or polypropylene bags in which customers may take home their purchases.
Plastic bags however do not stay open during loading as paper bags can and hence plastic bags are often difficult and awkward to load. This greatly reduces customer acceptance of such receptacles.
There have been proposed receptacle supports which consist of a series of fixed protuberances adapted to support a plastic bag by gripping handles or upper edges of the bag and holding the bag open. These have the disadvantage however that while holding the bag open for filling, when the bag is full the plastic material is stretched tightly and it is difficult to remove the bag by removing the handles or the like from the protuberances.
It is an object of this invention to provide support means for such receptacles which will enable the loading of these receptacles and to facilitate the removal of such receptacles once they have been loaded.
In one form therefore, the invention is said to reside in an article loading arrangement including means to engage with and spread the handles of a non rigid handled container to open the container, to allow for the loading of the container and means to close the handles to substantially close the container, so that the container may be removed from the loading arrangement.
In an alternative form, the invention may be said to reside in a supermarket trolley of a type including a handle, wheels and article support shelf and an upper frame, the trolley being characterised by a plurality of hooks, the hooks being arranged on the upper frame, in pairs on opposite sides and situated above the shelf, a first one of each of the pairs of hooks being adapted to be moved away from the second of each of the pairs of hooks from a first position to a second position, means to retain the first hooks in the second position and means to release the first hooks from their second position and to return them to their first position.
In a further alternative form the invention may be said to reside in a loading station of a type including a shelf to support at least one container to be loaded and an upper frame including hooks adapted to engage spaced apart upper portions of a container in use, the loading station being characterised by the hooks being arranged in pairs on the frame, with one pair to each side of the shelf, adapted to engage with the upper edge of the container as aforesaid and a first pair of each of the pairs of hooks being movable relative to the second of the pair of hooks such that a container when engaged by the hooks, may be opened for loading when the first of the hooks is moved from a first position to a second position away from the second of the hooks.
In a preferred form of the invention, the second hooks may be affixed to the frame and the first pair of hooks movable relative to the frame.
In an alternative preferred form, the loading station may further include means to retain the hooks in the second position and means to release the hooks from the second position.
The loading station may further include a plurality of pairs of hooks on each side of the shelf and an activating rod associated with the frame on each side of the shelf, each of the first hooks being connected to its respective activating rod such that by longitudinal movement of the activating rods each of the first hooks is moved with respect to the second hooks. There may be included resilient means acting on the first hooks to return the hooks from the second position to the first position.
The hooks may be adapted to attach t
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Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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