Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means – and...
Patent
1991-11-27
1993-11-23
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means, and...
414786, B60P 146
Patent
active
052638081
ABSTRACT:
A cargo platform system particularly structured for use with, e.g., a truck body's cargo opening. The system includes a mast assembly with a mast guide and a mast movably supported by the guide, the mast assembly being fixed to the truck body. A cargo platform is pivotally connected to the mast, the platform being swingable relative to the mast between a horizontal elevator position and a vertical storage position. An automatic latch system partially carried by the mast guide and partially carried by the platform allows the platform and mast guide to be latched together so that substantially no relative movement is possible between the platform and the mast guide in each of an upper latch position when the platform is in its storage position at an upper storage location relative to ground, and a lower latch position where the platform is in its storage position at a lower storage location relative to ground, the latch system functioning so that the platform is automatically latched to the mast guide in each of the upper and lower latch positions in response to movement of the platform into each of the upper and lower storage locations, respectively.
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Huppert Michael S.
Keenan James
Leyman Manufacturing Corp.
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