Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Conveyor
Patent
1988-07-15
1990-05-22
Bucci, David A.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Conveyor
414521, B60P 138
Patent
active
049273167
ABSTRACT:
A moving floor for a vehicle, trailer or container body especially for fitting on top of the floor of same, which moving floor provides maximum load entry height at the rear door frame/loading aperture of the body and improved load space utilization within the body behind the rear door frame while accommodating the drive motors therefor within the depth of the moving floor, to that end of the moving floor has the cargo receiving surface inclined relative to the body floor/roof giving decreasing depth to the moving floor in a direction towards the rear door frame/loading aperture. The moving floor comprises a pair of transversely spaced endless chains entrained around a drive pulley at the end remote from the loading aperture and around a smaller return pulley at the loading aperture end thereof. The chain carries therebetween transverse slats defining the movable cargo receiving surface.
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Bucci David A.
Joloda Plc.
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