Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Conveyor
Patent
1997-10-20
1999-03-09
Werner, Frank E.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Conveyor
104 47, 414462, B60P 144
Patent
active
058791230
ABSTRACT:
A vehicular transport apparatus for use with a carrier to transport other vehicles as cargo. The vehicular transport apparatus includes a support frame, a rotary mount on the support frame, a rotatable deck mounted on the rotary mount, a deck lock beside the rotatable deck that is pivotably attached to the carrier frame by a pin, a biassing means associated with the deck lock for biassing the deck lock into the lock position, and a ramp for loading the carried vehicle onto the rotatable deck, which can be secured to the rotatable deck or the support frame. The support frame is secured in a fixed position on the carrier by an attachment beam that mates with brackets attached to the carrier. Above the support frame, the rotatable deck can support the cargo of carried vehicles, and can rotate about an axis of rotation relative to the support frame and the carrier, such that the vehicles constituting the cargo can be both driven on and off the rotatable deck by rotating the rotatable deck and the cargo through 180 degrees . This rotation of the rotatable deck can be controlled by means of the deck lock that can move between a lock position and an open position. In the lock position, the deck lock is adjacent to and in engagement with the rotatable deck and beyond the rotatable deck from the axis of rotation, so that the deck lock impedes rotation of the rotatable deck by occupying space required by the rotatable deck in order for the rotatable deck to start rotating about the axis of rotation. In the open position, the deck lock is outside the path of travel occupied by the rotatable deck in turning about the axis of rotation.
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Barrigar Robert H.
Werner Frank E.
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