Stacking frame assembly for a pallet

Claim 1

AN INTEGRAL STACKING FRAME ASSEMBLY FOR MOUNTING ON A PALLET, SAID PALLET INCLUDING A GENERALLY FLAT PLATFORM HAVING A TOP AND BOTTOM SURFACE AND A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL STRINGERS SECURED TO SAID BOTTOM SURFACE, ENDS OF SAID STRINGERS BEING FLUSH WITH THE MARGINAL EDGES OF SAID PLATFORM COMPRISING: UPRIGHT INDEPENDENT LEG SECTIONS WHICH ARE LONGITUDINALLY RIGID AND RESILIENT LATERALLY OF THEIR OWN PLANES, SAID LEG SECTIONS EACH BEING SPACED APART SO AS TO RESILIENTLY ENGAGE AT LEAST TWO OPPOSING SIDES OF THE PERIPHERY OF A PALLET ONWHICH SAID STACKING FRAME IS TO BE MOUNTED; RIGID ARM SECTIONS INTERCONNECTING THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID LEG SECTIONS AND DISPOSED IN A PLANE SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID LEG SECTIONS SO AS TO PROVIDE A UNITARY ASSEMBLY THEREWITH; FOOT BRACKETS SECURED TO THE LOWER END OF A T LEAST TWO OF SAID LEG SECTIONS AND ADAPTED TO BE DETACHABLY SECURED TO SAID PALLET; EACH OF SAID FOOT BRACKETS COMPRISING A GENERALLY L-SHAPED INLVERTED SECTION OF FLAT RIGID MATGERIAL; THE BASE OF THE INVERTED L COMPRISILNG A HORIZONTAL PLATE ADAPTED TO SEAT UPON THE TOP SURFACE OF THE PLATFORM; AND THE LEG OF THE INVERTED L COMPRISING A VAERTICAL PLATE ADAPTED TO BEAR AGAINST THE MARGINAL EDGE OF SAID PLATFORM AND A SUBJACENT PORTION OF A STRINGER; A VERTICAL FLAT WING EXTENDING FROM AND GENERALLY NORMAL TO THE VERTICAL PLACE HAVING AN UPPER STRAIGHT EDGE SPACED DOWNWARDLY FROM THE BOTTOM TOM OF SAID HORIZONTAL PLATE THE APPROXIMATE THICKNESS OF THE PLATFORM WHEREBY THE PLATFORM MAY BE FRICTIONALLY HELD BETWEEN SAID BOTTOM OF SAID HORIZONTAL PLATE AND SAID UPPER STRAIGHT EDGE AND THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID WING IS ADAPTED TO BEAR AGAINST A SURFACE OF SAID STRINGER NORMAL TO THE PORTION OF THE STRINGER WHICH THE VERTICAL PLATE IS ADAPTED TO BEAR AGAINST WHEREBY SAID FOOT BRACKETT ARAE DISENGAGED FROM A PALLET BY DIRECT LATERAL MOVEMENT OUTWARDLY GENERALLY IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE AXIS OF SAID STRINGERS AND ARE ENGAGED WITH A PALLET BY DIRECT LATERAL MOVEMENT INWARDLY SO THAT SAID FOOT BRACKETS, LEG SECTIONS AND ARM SECTIONS PROVIDE A VERTICALLY RIGID UNITARY STACKING FRAME STURCTURE.