Abstract: A pallet lifting and moving mechanism with a base, cam member, a removable handle and a wheel rotatingly secured to the cam member to lift the base from a support surface wherein the base supports a leading edge of an associated pallet to facilitate loading and supports a trailing edge of an associated pallet to facilitate unloading of the associated pallet from a delivery truck. The invention also contemplates a method of lifting the leading edge of the associated pallet during loading and the trailing edge of the associated pallet during unloading.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 20, 2000
Date of Patent:
December 10, 2002
Assignee:
Southeastern Container, Inc.
Inventors:
John D. Underwood, Randolph Scott Prause, David E. Raabe
Abstract: A tubular preform for a blow-molded container. The preform has a closed end and an opposite open end, the relative dimensions of the ends being such that the closed end would be receivable in the open end of a similar preform to nest there were it not for the provision of an antinesting feature in the form of a plurlity of axially extending ribs which protrude inwardly from the inner surface of the preform adjacent to the open end to prevent entry of another preform.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 23, 1993
Date of Patent:
November 22, 1994
Assignee:
Southeastern Container
Inventors:
Henry M. Pinto, John Bombace, Paul La Barre