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Material handling system, particularly for a retail establishment having merchandise display and storage areas. The system provides equipment for handling, processing and transporting merchandise from storage to work stations and to display racks. The equipment includes a turntable attached to a fle

Material handling system, particularly for a retail establishment having merchandise display and storage areas. The system provides equipment for handling, processing and transporting merchandise from storage to work stations and to display racks. The equipment includes a turntable attached to a flexible conveyor which abuts a conveyor table. Carts are positioned in a parking frame next to the table. Each cart is a wheeled cart having an upright end frame at one end thereof, and shelves are hingedly connected to the end frame for movement between horizontal operative positions and substantially vertical storage positions. The carts are partially nestable with one another when the shelves are in their storage positions. An attachment device is releasably attachable to the cart end frame on the opposite side thereof from the shelves. The attachment device includes an adjustable shelf and a stool.

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A cart including a wheeled base frame having an upright end frame extending upwardly from one end thereof, an upper shelf having one end connected to said end frame by a hinged connection for movement between an operative position extending generally parallel to said base frame in upwardly spaced re

A cart including a wheeled base frame having an upright end frame extending upwardly from one end thereof, an upper shelf having one end connected to said end frame by a hinged connection for movement between an operative position extending generally parallel to said base frame in upwardly spaced relationship thereto and a storage position extending upwardly from said hinged connection generally parallel to said end frame, and support legs carried by said upper shelf for supporting said upper shelf in said operative position on said base frame at support locations spaced a substantial distance from said end frame, wherein said support legs are hingedly connected with said upper shelf for movement between a collapsed position extending generally parallel to said upper shelf in said storage position thereof and an extended position extending downwardly from said upper shelf in said operative position thereof; and further including cooperating abutment means between said base frame and said support legs for preventing movement of said support legs about their hinged connection with said shelf when said shelf is in said operative position, wherein said support legs have open free ends and said cooperating abutment means comprises projections upstanding from said base frame for reception in said open free ends of said support legs.