Mobile carpet display center

Claim 1

A self contained trailer for the promotion and selling of rolled merchandise such as carpet comprising: a trailer having a wheel mounted trailer bed, a roof spaced from and mounted on said bed by substantially vertically positioned posts, and side and end members, each of said side and end members comprising a plurality of flaps part of which are hingedly mounted adjacent the edges of said bed and the remainder hingedly mounted adjacent the edges of said roof, whereby when said flaps are rotated to a substantially vertical position said flaps cooperatively enclose the sides and ends of the trailer, means for supporting said part of said flaps in a horizontal position when these flaps are rotated to a horizontal position to form a walk around the sides and ends of said bed, a pair of racks each mounted longitudinally of the bed and each adjacent a different edge of said bed within the trailer for supporting longitudinally of the bed a plurality of substantially horizontally positioned rolls of merchandise, said racks being spaced from each other to provide a walk space therebetween, each of said racks comprises at least a pair of sections axially aligned and each section mounting in a vertical array a plurality of substantially horizontally positioned rolls of merchandise, mounting means comprising a hook-shaped configuration opening upwardly toward said roof provided on each of said sections of said pairs of racks for rotatively supporting and mounting the rolls of merchandise, motor means mountable on each of said racks for rotating said rolls of merchandise, and step means hingedly mounted to an edge of a flap hingedly mounted to one end of said truck bed for pivotal movement away from said truck bed for resting on the ground to provide steps for ascending to the walk around the truck bed, and when pivotally rotated in the opposite direction moving into said walk space for storage purposes.