Material or article handling – Vehicle-carried bale accumulator
Patent
1994-12-15
1997-03-04
Merritt, Karen B.
Material or article handling
Vehicle-carried bale accumulator
414478, 414482, B65G 5732
Patent
active
056072740
ABSTRACT:
A process and apparatus to pickup, stack and transport bales and other boxed or contained commodities. The invention is a flat bed vehicle and process which utilize a boom mounted on a vehicle which allow the vehicle to arrange itself adjacent the object to be picked up, lower the boom to attach to the object and to then raise and rotate it to a position where it can be lowered onto the flat bed portion of the vehicle. The invention further provides for the arrangement of the bales or other objects such that when the flat bed is tilted to a substantially vertical position and moved away, the bales or boxes that were arranged horizontally on the flatbed are stacked vertically.
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Mountain View Equipment Company: "MVE 8000" Self-Propelled Big Bale Wagon (Brochure Attached), Date Unknown.
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Cook Ivan J.
Merritt Karen B.
Morse Gregory A.
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