Patents Assigned to Up-Right International Manufacturing, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 5159989
    Abstract: An automatic leveling system for a four-wheel vehicle system having outrigger assemblies at each of the four corners of the vehicle chassis and in which each outrigger assembly has an outrigger pad and a hydraulic cylinder for moving the pad downwardly and upwardly relative to the ground. The leveling system includes a low-pressure high-flow source of hydraulic fluid which is connected for one-way flow into the head ends of all four of the cylinders to lower all pads to the ground and then maintain them in contact with the ground. A level sensor senses the relative levelness of the right front and left rear corners of the vehicle and high-pressure low-flow hydraulic fluid is connected to the head end of the cylinder at the lower of those two corners to raise that corner of the vehicle relative to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Up-Right International Manufacturing, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gerald L. Claxton