"octopus" pallet

Claim 1

A PALLET COMPRISING: A PRIMARY BEAM INCLUDING AN ELONGATED UPPER PLATE AND AN ELONGATED LOWER PLATE AND A PLURALITY OF HORZONTAL SPACED BLOCKS AFFIXED TO SAID PLATES AND DISPOSED THEREBETWEEN AND THEREBY SUPPORTING SAID PLATES IN VERTICALLY SPACED PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP, TWO OF SAID BLOCKS BEING LOCATED AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID PRIMARY BEAM AND TWO OF SAID BLOCKS BEING SPACED APART NEAR THE MID-POINT BETWEEN OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID BEAM, SAID TWO BLOCKS NEAR THE MID-POINT BEING ARRANGED TO PROJECT OUTWARDLY FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID BEAM TO PROVIDE MOUNTS FOR PALLET ARMS; A PALLET ARM HAVING AN ELONGATED UPPER PLATE IDENTICAL IN THICKNESS TO THE UPPER PLATE OF SAID PRIMARY BEAM AND HAVING AN ELONGATED LOWER PLATE IDENTICAL IN THICKNESS TO THE LOWER PLATE OF SAID PRIMARY BEAM, AND SAID ARM HAVING A SPACER BLOCK AFFIXED TO THE UPPER AND LOWER PLATE OF THE ARM AT ONE END THEREOF, THE UPPER AND LOWER PLATES OF THE ARM BEING PIVOTALLY CONNECTED AT THE OTHER END OF THE ARM TO ONE OF SAID MOUNTS AT ONE SIDE OF SAID PRIMARY BEAM, THE ARM BEING THEREBY SWINGABLE BETWEEN A FOLDED POSITION ALONGSIDE SAID PRIMARY BEAM AND AN OPEN POSITION PROJECTING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID ONE SIDE OF SAID PRIMARY BEAM, THE INNER ENDS OF THE UPPER AND LOWER PLATES OF THE ARM ADJACENT THE PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS BEING MITERED AT 45 DEGREES WITH RESPECT TO THE SIDES OF SAID PLATES WHICH ABUT THE SIDE OF SAID PRIMARY BEAM WHEN THE ARM IS FOLDED, AND THE PIVOTAL AXIS BEING LOCATED TO CAUSE ABUTTING ENGAGEMENT OF THE MITERED INNER END OF THE UPPER AND LOWER ARM PLATES WITH SIDES OF THE UPPER AND LOWER PRIMARY BEAM PLATES WHEN THE ARM IS SWUNG OUTWARDLY FROM THE PRIMARY BEAM TO A 45 DEGREE ANGLE THEREWITH, THE OUTER ENDS OF SAID UPPER AND LOWER ARM PLATES BEING MITERED PARALLEL TO THE INNER ENDS THEREOF, THE BLOCK AFFIXED TO THE OUTER ENDS BEING FLUSH WITH THE OUTERMOST POINTS ON THE OUTER ENDS OF THE UPPER AND LOWER ARM PLATES AND PROJECTING THEREFROM AT 45 DEGREES WITH RESPECT TO THE OUTER ENDS OF THE UPPER AND LOWER ARM PLATES TO PROVIDE A MOUNTING LEDGE; THEREBEING FOUR ARMS SIMILAR TO SAID ARM, TWO OF SAID ARMS BEING IDENTICAL AND THE OTHER TWO OF SAID ARMS BEING IDENTICAL, EACH DIFFERENT ONE OF SAID ARMS BEING MOUNTED TO A DIFFERENT ONE OF SAID MOUNTS AND THE LENGTHS OF SAID ARMS BEING SUCH THAT WHEN ALL OF SAID ARMS ARE OPENED AND DISPOSED AT 45 DEGREES WITH RESPECT TO SAID PRIMARY BEAM, THE ENDS OF SAID ARMS DEFINE THE FOUR CORNERS OF A RECTANGULAR WITH THE ENDS OF THE PRIMARY BEAM BEING DISPOSED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE RECTANGLE, THE UPPER FACES OF ALL OF SAID UPPER PLATES LYING IN A FIRST COMMON PLANE AND THE LOWER FACES OF ALL OF SAID LOWER PLATES LYING IN A SECOND COMMON PLANE VERTICALLY SPACED BELOW AND PARALLEL TO SAID FIRST PLANE; ALL OF SAID PLATES BEING PARALLELOGRAMS, AND THE PLATES FOR SAID PRIMARY BEAM BEING RECTANGULAR PARALLELOGRAMS.