Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means – and...
Patent
1987-02-18
1988-11-01
Spar, Robert J.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means, and...
280402, 294104, 414563, B60P 306
Patent
active
047815167
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle such as a conventional hostler tractor to which equipment has been added to enable the vehicle to also lift and move separable rail bogies. The added equipment includes a boom arm apparatus which is pivotally mounted to the tractor for movement from a stowed position adjacent the vehicle cab to a deployed position wherein it is resting upon and disposed across a fifth wheel coupling device of the tractor. The boom apparatus can be coupled to the rail bogie with a pick up shoe assembly, for example. Then, the boom apparatus can be lifted by elevating the fifth wheel coupling device so that the tractor can transport the rail bogie. When the vehicle is used to tow semitrailers, the boom apparatus can be lifted for example with a hydraulic cylinder, so as to be in its stowed position adjacent to the vehicle cab.
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Cripe Alan R.
Cripe Christopher A.
Bucci David A.
Spar Robert J.
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