Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
Patent
1977-02-25
1978-12-26
Kelmachter, Barry L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
244118R, B64D 108
Patent
active
041312511
ABSTRACT:
A portable and adjustable aircraft cargo handling system designed to facilitate substantially simultaneous aerial delivery of cargo from a cargo ramp and paratroops from side doors from a conventional troop carrying aircraft of the Hercules C130 type which is provided with an inwardly and upwardly-opening rear cargo door and an outwardly and downwardly opening rear cargo ramp. The cargo device includes a base, which can be secured to the conventional aircraft cargo ramp; a load carrying platform, having friction reducing rollers or the like, superimposed on the base and pivotally connected thereto along one of its marginal edges; and a lifting device which is located between the base and the platform to raise and lower one end of the platform relative to the base between a first, lowered position in which cargo is loaded thereon and loaded into the aircraft and a second, raised position in which cargo is carried in flight and is discharged from the aircraft when the rear cargo door is raised. In the raised position, the platform provides a 5.degree. rearward slope to facilitate easy release of the cargo load, without the necessity of lowering the cargo ramp.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2426862 (1947-09-01), Cunningham
patent: 3088608 (1963-05-01), Theodore
patent: 3964625 (1976-06-01), Wirz
"Lockheed C-130", Jane's All the World's Aircraft, 1974-1975, pp. 374-375.
Golden, deceased Donald M. G. R.
Lloyd Robert G.
Street Anthony C.
Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada as represented by the
Kelmachter Barry L.
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