Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Grapple – Load shifting
Patent
1989-02-09
1991-06-04
Focarino, Margaret A.
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Grapple
Load shifting
294902, 414406, B66F 918
Patent
active
050208446
ABSTRACT:
A pair of elongate arms, carried by a material handling device such as a refuse collection vehicle, are oppositely movable between a release position and a gripping position. The friction enhancing surface of a belt carried by each arm compliantly engages the perimeter of a container or similar article as the arms move to the gripping position. In response to movement of the arms to the gripping position, a limb pivotally carried by each arm extends to present a segment of the respective belt to engage the surface of a small container.
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patent: 3970342 (1976-07-01), Cotton
patent: 4435117 (1984-03-01), House
patent: 4461607 (1984-07-01), Smith
Flickinger Don J.
Focarino Margaret A.
Government Innovators, Inc.
Gresham Lowell W.
Kramer Dean J.
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