Palletized storage device

Claim 1

IN A STORAGE DEVICE OF THE CHARACTER AND FOR THE PURPOSE DESCRIBED, THE COMBINATION OF A PAIR OF RAILWAY DEFINING RAILS, A STANCHION STRUCTURE STRADDLING SAID RAILWAY HAVING VERTICALLY EXTENDING COLUMNS LOCATED INWARDLY WITH RESPECT TO THE RAILS OF SAID TRACKWAY, A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY SPACED HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING SHELF FORMING BRACKETS CARRIED BY EACH OF SAID COLUMNS ENGAGEABLE BY A PALLET EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY THEREBETWEEN, A GANTRY STRUCTURE HAVING TRUCKS MOUNTED UPON THE RAILS OF SAID TRACKWAY, A VERTICAL CARRIAGE SUPPORTING COLUMN CARRIED BY EACH OF SAID TRUCKS IN LINE WITH THE COLUMNS OF SAID STANCHION STRUCTURE, VERTICALLY MOVABLE CARRIAGE MOUNTED UPON EACH OF SAID LATTER COLUMNS HAVING PLATEN ENGAGING BRACKETS, A HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING SHAFT EXTENDING LATERALLY ABOVE THE COLUMNS OF SAID GANTRY STRUCTURE HAVING A SHAFT WITH TWO SPROCKETS LOCATED ONE ABOVE EACH OF SAID COLUMNS, A MOTIVE POWER MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID SHAFT IN A FORWARD AND REVERSE DIRECTION, CHAINS CONNECTED AT ONE END TO EACH OF THE VERTICALLY MOVABLE CARRIAGES UPON THE GANTRY STRUCTURE AND HANGING FREE AT THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID SPROCKETS, AND A PLURALITY OF ARTICLE SUPPORTING PALLETS HAVING MEANS AT THEIR ENDS ENGAGEABLE BY THE BRACKETS CARRIED BY SAID VERTICALLY MOVABLE CARRIAGES AND OTHER MEANS ENGAGEABLE WITH THE SHELF FORMING BRACKETS OF SAID STANCHION STRUCTURE, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT THE SHAFT FORMING BRACKETS OF SAID STANCHION STRUCTURE AND THE PALLET ENGAGING MEANS OF SAID GANTRY STRUCTURE ARE ADAPTED AND ARRANGED TO MOVE INTO OVERLAPPING RELATIONSHIP WHEN THE COLUMNS OF SAID STANCHION STRUCTURE AND THE COLUMNS OF SAID GANTRY STRUCTURE ARE BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER BY MOVEMENT OF SAID GANTRY STRUCTURE ALONG SAID TRACKWAY, WHEREBY PALLETS ENGAGED BY THE PALLET ENGAGING BRACKETS OF THE VERTICALLY MOVABLE CARRIAGES OF SAID GANTRY STRUCTURE MAY BE INDIVIDUALLY TRANSPORTED TO AND FROM THE SHELF FORMING BRACKETS OF SAID STANCHION STRUCTURE.