Storage rack with internestable stacking attachments

Claim 1

A rigid internestable storage rack for accommodating the storage of heavy loads positioned in horizontal orientation, said rack being further adapted for transport by conventional transport vehicles such as fork lift trucks and the like, the combination comprising, a series of four vertically and rectangularly oriented support posts, front and rear lower brace members fixedly secured to and interconnecting opposed adjacent support posts, a pair of opposed lower cross brace members fixedly secured to and interconnecting said front and rear lower brace members thereby to form a rigid lower assembly for said rack, an upper rear brace member fixedly secured to and interconnecting opposed adjacent support posts, a pair of opposed upper cross brace members fixedly secured to and interconnecting opposed and cross oriented ones of said support posts. at least said upper rear brace member being offset and positioned externally of said corresponding opposed and cross oriented support posts, nesting means positioned on top of each of said vertical support posts, mating nestable means for matingly nesting with said nesting means, at least one pair of said nestable means mounted on and extending downwardly from said offset and externally positioned upper rear brace member. and stabilizing means mounted on the upper portion of said rack in opposed relation to said nestable means thereby to stabilize said rack when internested with other similar racks in a vertically offset stacking posture. whereby the provision of at least one upper brace member having at least one pair of said nestable means mounted thereon permits said rack to be internestably stacked atop another similar rack by matingly nesting said nestable means with said nesting means such that said racks will stack in vertically offset orientation one with respect to the other.