A goods dispenser adapted particularly for the dispensing of substantially flat flexible goods such as anti-static dryer sheets, napkins, thin protective gloves and the like that also provides for convenient disposal of used goods and other trash. The dispenser comprises a holding means for the goods and a support means for supporting a trash receptacle. In a preferred embodiment, the trash receptacle is a plastic shopping bag and the support means is one or more hooks for engaging the handles o...

A goods pallet comprising parallel supports having at least end portions fixed by structure to cross-connection elements, each cross-connection element comprising a beam of channel section having a top flange to which the support elements are fixed, and a web and a bottom flange which are both recessed by at least one notch to form two spaced-apart brackets on either side thereof that are integral with the top flange.

Goods container with a first side wall for opening and closing of the container which wall is pivotably mounted on a second side wall. A hook-and-clasp locking device connects the first side wall and a third side wall. When engaged by the clasp, the hook is movable from a first position where the clasp is shiftable away from the hook so that the wall can be opened to a second position where the third side wall obstructs shifting of the clasp away from the hook.

A van has on its load carrying platform an endless conveyor extending fore-and-aft, and wheeled containers connected to the conveyor and running on the platform. The conveyor is mounted on the platform so that it can be moved bodily rearwardly during loading and unloading, and can be moved forwardly when it is not being operated, and the containers overhang the conveyor, so that substantially the whole cargo space is utilized.

A good transporting arrangement (1) utilizing a goods transporting path in the form of a guide device (2) and two wheels (4,6) capable of co-acting with opposite sides of the guide device. The two wheels co-act drivingly with the guide device through a drive arrangement. The rotational speed of one driving wheel (4) is adapted independently of the rotational speed of the other driving wheel (6) by co-action of one driving wheel (4) with a first electric motor and by co-action of the other drivin...

A goods container for both longitudinal and transverse roller-track handling. The container has a hinged bottom between two side walls, said bottom being foldable upwardly against a wall between said two side walls or against any one of the side walls and being provided with one or more substantially continuously extending rails at the underside of the bottom for coaction with the rollers of a roller track.

In a container of the kind having a rigid impermeable base and a flexible impermeable cover which is sealed to the base, and in which air is evacuated from the region between the cover and the base so that the cover is drawn down onto goods on the base, there is provided a bellows-type vacuum sensor which senses the air pressure in the container and which operates switch contacts controlling a pump. When the container is used in an aircraft, where the ambient pressure inside the aircraft falls c...

The base of a load-carrying system supports a horizontal conveyor having an endless member with side-by-side runs, and having wheeled load receptacles running on the base, and the sides of the receptacles adjacent the endless member directly overlie the latter, so that substantially the whole load space is utilized in a direction transverse to the runs.

A goods showcase capable of arbitrarily varying depths of respective shelves is herein described. The shelf has struts with a plurality of engaging holes provided on their sides as aligned in columns, and shelf support members which each have a horizontal shelf plate support flange extending from a lower edge of a laterally long L-shaped vertical side plate provided with engaging pieces to be engaged in the engaging holes in the shelf strut and also have a plurality of engaging vertical claws er...

A goods vehicle has a body with upper and lower load-bearing floors and each mounted for vertical movement within the body. The upper floor is raised and lowered by a hoist. Telescopic links connect the two floors such that when the upper floor is less than a certain height above the lower floor it can move independently of the lower floor, but when the upper floor is lifted above such height it entrains the lower floor and the two floors move together. In another embodiment the two floors are f...