PLATE MATERIAL HOUSING RACK, AND INTERLOCKING MECHANISM FOR THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plate material housing rack rationalizing work by shortening an operation flow line of a worker, having a simple structure, and suppressing increase of weight; and to provide an interlocking mechanism for the same. SOLUTION: The plate material housing rack 1 is provided between a top plate 2 and a bottom plate 3, with a fixed side plate 4 and a movable side plate 5, and includes clamp mechanisms 6 for fixing the movable side plate 5, and the interlocking mechanism 8 for operatively connecting operation levers 41 of the clamp mechanism 6 with each other. The interlocking mechanism 8 includes: a lower link member 42; an upper link member 43; an upper cross-joint 44a arranged on the upper link member 43; a lower cross-joint 44b arranged on the lower link member 42; and a vertical connection link member 50 in which the upper extension part 51 and the lower extension part 52 are fixed to the upper cross-joint 44a and the lower cross-joint 44b, respectively, at the same phase in a rotatable state. When either of the operation levers 41 is rotated, the other operation lever 41 is moved through the interlocking mechanism 8 by being entirely operatively connected therewith. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT