Material or article handling – Elevator or hoist and loading or unloading means therefor – Convertible attachment
Patent
1988-09-12
1990-05-29
Spar, Robert J.
Material or article handling
Elevator or hoist and loading or unloading means therefor
Convertible attachment
414 23, B66F 912
Patent
active
049291459
ABSTRACT:
A forklift attachment adapts a forklift to handle long slender workpieces or bundles of such workpieces, such as during stocking pipe or conduit stored in vertical storage racks. The forklift adapter includes an H-shaped frame, with hollow tubular legs for receiving forks of the forklift. A cradling member is rigidly mounted to the frame for cradling the workpieces. The cradling member includes two arcuate extending arms which curve forwardly and upwardly from a plane containing the H-shaped frame, and which have a bundle receiving opening wider than the distance between the legs of the H-shaped frame. To protect the workpieces from damage during handling, the ends of the arms are rounded and the arcuate member of the cradling member has a circular cross section.
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Photograph of George Thompson's Prior Art Forklift Adapter Design.
"Drum Handling Lift Truck Attachments"-Liftomatic Material Handling, Inc., 4 pages.
Katz Robert S.
Spar Robert J.
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