Material or article handling – Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a... – Including one or more movable sites
Patent
1986-07-21
1989-10-17
Brittain, James R.
Material or article handling
Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a...
Including one or more movable sites
1041722, 1041723, 414237, 414242, E04H 634
Patent
active
048742805
ABSTRACT:
The equipment comprises: a track, fixed to a base, extending endlessly so as to define two longitudinal runways; a plurality of movable elements of support, equidistant one with respect to the other, sliding on the track; a plurality of platforms on which to receive an identical plurality of vehicles, each platform resting fixedly on one of the movable elements of support; a power unit for driving synchronously, in opposite directions, the movable elements, with it being possible for each platform to transit at a station for loading and unloading vehicles onto and from the platform; a movable bar for barring access to the station; and a programmed unit, set in action through a card, for operating the power unit and the bar, as well as destined to operated a corresponding signal unit in consequence of the existence of at least one free platform.
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Brittain James R.
V.B. Di Gamberini Enzo
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