Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Conveyor
Patent
1993-10-01
1995-01-10
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Conveyor
14 711, 193 41, B65G 6702
Patent
active
053801458
ABSTRACT:
A loading ramp mechanism comprises two ramps and the support system therefor such that the ramps may be moved from a storage position in which the ramps are on edge and horizontal and parallel proximate to each other below the rear edge of a truck load bed, to a deployed position in which the ramps are secured at one end at the rear of the cargo bed of the small truck and are laterally adjustable. The support system comprises two support rods each having two sections flexibly joined, the first section being rigidly mounted in a vertical position and the second section being releasably supported in a horizontal position and capable of assuming a vertical position on the same axis with the first vertical section. Each ramp member at one end slidably receives a support rod and can be supported by either the horizontal second section when deployed or the vertical first section when stored. When stored, the ramp sections are pinned together and to a frame, thereby locking the ramps and preventing accidental deployment.
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Gordon Stephen
Huppert Michael S.
Lee Philip J.
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