Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means – and...
Patent
1998-03-23
2000-02-01
Bucci, David A.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means, and...
414522, 414501, 414914, 414556, 414542, B60P 100
Patent
active
060195673
ABSTRACT:
A slidable load lift apparatus is selectively completely retractable into the bed of a standard pickup truck. The load lift apparatus includes a base frame member attached to the pickup truck bed, the base frame member supporting a substantially planar roller platform member slidably engaged with the base frame member. The base frame member includes a pair of elongate rail members extending in parallel along a first longitudinal axis and adapted to engage a set of roller wheels provided on the bottom of the roller platform member. A substantially planar lift platform member is operatively connected to the roller platform member through a set of parallelogram linkages which permit the lift platform to be moved between a raised position coplanar with the roller platform member and a lowered position out of the plane of the roller member for convenient loading of the lift platform at ground level. In the raised coplanar orientation between the lift platform member and the roller platform member, the platform member pair are slidable together relative to the base frame member. A locking arrangement is provided to prevent the inadvertent sliding of the roller platform member relative to the base frame member when the pickup truck vehicle supporting the load lift apparatus is in motion.
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Farleman Ronald K.
Lutkus Gerald A.
Bucci David A.
Lift Technologies, Inc.
Parker Isobel A.
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