Bridges – Gangway – ramp – or dock leveler
Patent
1986-02-24
1987-10-20
Leppink, James A.
Bridges
Gangway, ramp, or dock leveler
414537, E01D 100
Patent
active
047004215
ABSTRACT:
A ramp assembly provides loading of small off-the-road vehicles onto, and unloading of such vehicles from the bed of a pick-up truck. The assembly includes a flexible support such as a sheet of lightweight chain link, cloth belting or the like which is connected at the upper end to the corner posts of the truck bed or otherwise secured to the truck and which is tensioned at the other end thereof by an elongate support member, connected at one end to the ball hitch on the truck. The connection to the corner posts is made by notched members which extend laterally from both sides of the flexible support to engage the walls of the posts.
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Baker William E.
Gladney Tommy C.
Leppink James A.
Smith Matthew
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