Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft propulsion and steering on land or water
Patent
1992-09-03
1993-11-09
Focarino, Margaret A.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft propulsion and steering on land or water
180 147, 180904, 414426, 414429, B64C 2550
Patent
active
052595722
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle with its own traveling gear for towing an aircraft without draw tongue, has a U-shaped chassis frame recess that is open in the forward direction with a clamping and lifting device arranged therein for the nose wheels of an aircraft. The clamping and lifting device, which is oscillatingly suspended on the chassis frame 1, includes a pivoting and lifting ramp 8, as well as two parallel telescoping arms 10 arranged rigidly on the pivoting and lifting ramp 8, with telescoping cylinders 11 and with gripping arms 14, which can be pivoted in and whose nose wheel contact surfaces 18 are rigidly attached to the gripping arms 14, and of telescopingly adjustable holddown devices 12, 13, which are hinged to the support 7.
FIG. 3 shows the clamping and lifting devices with the nose wheels 17 lifted.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4911603 (1990-03-01), Pollner et al.
patent: 5054714 (1991-10-01), Franken et al.
Franken Wilhelm
Goris Heinrich
Kretschmann Ernest
Michaelsen Torsten L.
Pohe Dieter
Ellis Christopher P.
Focarino Margaret A.
MAN Gutehoffnungshutte Aktiengesellschaft
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