US Patent Issued to Garlock Safety Systems on Oct. 6 for "Pallet racking including fall prevention apparatus and methods" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,546, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Garlock Safety Systems Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Pallet racking including fall prevention apparatus and methods" was invented by Jacob Thieschafer (Coon Rapids, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fall prevention apparatus includes an obstacle biased from a pass into position to an obstruction position. A pallet abuts with the obstacle in the obstruction position extending into a passage in a pallet racking system including a shelf having decking defining a free edge and moves the obstacle to the pass into position when the obstacle extends generally parallel to the passage. The pallet slides o...