Hold-down mechanism for a loading platform

Details Hold-down mechanism for a loading platform Hold-down mechanism for a loading platform

1992-10-23

1994-06-07

Britts, Ramon S.

Bridges

Gangway, ramp, or dock leveler

Attached

14 695, E01D 100, B65G 6928

Patent

active

053177754

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a hold-down mechanism for loading platforms of loading ramps with a platform on their end towards the ramp, which is pivotable around a horizontal shaft, and having an extension which can be flipped out, and features a square pipe with a lug fastened on a support and with support plates disposed on both sides and parallel to each other, which have a support or roller with an inclination of less than 50.degree., in the gap of which, limited by the inclination, a wedge with a braking plate is disposed, also having a rod, movably disposed parallel to the pipe, which is fastened on the support by means of a lug, and having two flat iron pieces at the upper and lower edges of the support plates as well as of the wedge disposed therebetween, between which two tension springs are stretched for moving the wedge with the braking plate into the opening between the support and the rod, and an unlatching mechanism.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3646627 (1972-03-01), Potter
patent: 4974276 (1990-12-01), Alexander

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