Material or article handling – Load-transporting type vehicle and external means... – Of driven type – for unloading a wheeled vehicle
Patent
1985-06-03
1988-05-24
Werner, Frank E.
Material or article handling
Load-transporting type vehicle and external means...
Of driven type, for unloading a wheeled vehicle
414337, 414744R, 414917, 414785, 414340, 414344, 414399, 1984801, 104 18, 104 49, B65G 6702
Patent
active
047462574
ABSTRACT:
A driveway for tractor-trailers is elevated along one side having a side coupling runner mounted to roll on wheels in a track along the side of the driveway facing a single-arm rotary loader. The runner is longer than the tractor-trailer and has a lift push gate at one or both ends for lowering in front of the tractor to push the runner along its track and has recesses for vertical coupling rods or tubes on the loader's trailer-lifting turntable to engage in to move the loader with the tractor to rotate the loader into alignment under the trailer and lift for transfer. Then the tractor driver can release the fifth-wheel and lift the gate and drive away. The loader is further rotated or driven and disengaged from the runner before the runner is returned by motor drive. The loader can load the trailer removed from the tractor onto a railway car as in my earlier U.S. Pat. No. 4,370,086 or onto separable railroad trucks using a second coupling runner which has latches for engaging the railroad trucks to move them with that runner as the trailer is brought over the trucks into position for engaging and supporting the trailer. Cargo containers also can be transferred between trailer beds and railway cars or separable railway trucks using the rotary loader and coupling runners. The loader and runners are operated in reverse to transfer trailers or containers from rail to highway mode. The rotary loader can be mounted on a traveling platform and driven to transfer a trailer or container to or from a stationary spot, a conveyor, or a vehicle, and can angle park trailers and engage angle parked trailers for selective coupling by a highway tractor. The loader and railway cars can be made to handle both trailers and containers.
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