Dock leveler lip construction

Details Dock leveler lip construction Dock leveler lip construction

1996-10-22

1999-07-27

Lisehora, James A.

Bridges

Gangway, ramp, or dock leveler

Attached

E01D 100

Patent

active

059268905

ABSTRACT:
A dock leveler having a frame, a deck hingedly mounted at on end to the frame and a lip hingedly mounted to the deck at another thereof. The lip has a hinge tube affixed to the lip and a gusset joined to both the lip and the hinge tube. The gusset has an end joining the lip having a width greater than an end joining the hinge tube. The gusset may have a trapezoidal shape and the end of the gusset joining the lip is affixed by two welds each spanning the width of the end joining the hinge tube and disposed between the gusset and the hinge tube. The two welds are joined to each other by extending around edges of the gusset. A single gusset may span the lip and be joined to multiple hinge tubes.

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