Elevator – industrial lift truck – or stationary lift for vehicle – Transportable elevator – Wheel supported
Patent
1995-11-30
1998-03-03
Noland, Kenneth
Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle
Transportable elevator
Wheel supported
410 44, B66B 916
Patent
active
057225125
ABSTRACT:
The shipping stand includes a cradle assembly mounted upon a frame assembly to which a jet aircraft is securable. The frame assembly includes a plurality of wheels for locomotive capability. A plurality of shock absorbers are operatively engaged between the cradle assembly and frame assembly to provide adequate shock protection to a loaded jet aircraft engine when the shipping stand is configured in a truck transport mode. A plurality of lifting mechanisms selectively raise the cradle assembly to a predetermined height creating gaps between upper transport flanges and lower transport flanges. The gaps correspond to the height of spacers positionable between the flanges in the truck transport mode. To place the shipping stand in an air transport mode, the lifting mechanisms are activated, the spacers are removed from between the flanges and the cradle assembly is lowered to eliminate the gaps between the flanges. Each spacer includes indicia which indicate which mode the shipping stand is configured and further includes an air mode slot and a truck mode slot which cooperates with corresponding mode pins ensuring that the appropriate indicia is viewable when the shipping stand is configured in either the truck transport mode or the air transport mode.
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Product Information Catalog by Advance Ground Systems Engineering Corp. of Anaheim, California; AM-2387 Cradle and AM-2388 Base; 23 Oct. 1990.
No. 1: Product information advertisement by applicant Re: Core Engine Module.
No. 2: Product information advertisement by applicant Re: various types of ground support equipment to secure and transport components of a jet aircraft.
No. 3: Product information advertisement by applicant Re: a cradle device for securing a component of a jet aircraft engine.
No. 4: Product information advertisement by applicant Re: a cradle device for securing components of a jet air aircraft engine.
No. 5: Product information advertisement by applicant Re: Engine Stand.
No. 6: Product information advertisement by applicant Re: Hydraulic Engine Stand.
No. 7: Relevant portions of a product information catalog by Advance Ground Systems Engineering Corporation of Anaheim, California (23 Oct. 1990).
Fowler Frank
Hatch Robert F.
Lilja Gerald D.
Noland Kenneth
Stanley Aviation Corporation
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