Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means – and...
Patent
1994-08-26
1996-06-11
Bucci, David A.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means, and...
410 8, 410 24, 410 281, 410 89, 414498, 414786, B60P 154, B60P 164
Patent
active
055250262
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for storing in a cargo transport of irregular shape, such as vehicles. The cargo transport comprises an elongate hollow highway truck semi-trailer having a pair of longitudinally extending spaced apart upright-side walls defining an interior cargo space therebetween. The trailer has a rearward openable end through which vehicles may be conveyed, and longitudinally extending internal crane runway rails supported by the side walls. A rear portion of the runway is longitudinally extendable rearward of the open rear end of the trailer. A plurality of standardized, stackable vehicle supporting pallets are provided upon which vehicles are individually loaded at a trailer-exterior loading position. A crane travels on the runway longitudinally within the trailer for conveying each loaded pallet longitudinally and vertically from the loading position to a selected forward storage position, and can pivot the pallet as needed about a non-vertical axis from a loading orientation to a storage or transport orientation. The cargo-facing surfaces of the side walls have a fixed excess array of pallet supports arranged in a known pattern coordinated with on-board pallet supports for releasably coupling each pallet to the side walls of the trailer in the storage orientation at the selected storage position. A preprogrammable automatic controller capable of controlling the operation of the crane may be used and preprogrammed using the wall support pattern to select storage positions and orientations of loaded pallets in the cargo space to optimize the use of space within the trailer.
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DeMonte Tim P.
DeMonte Walter P.
Bucci David A.
Demonte Fab, Ltd.
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