Patents by Inventor Clifford E. Becker

Clifford E. Becker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4106634
    Abstract: A self-propelled steerable hoist for use in the placement of mobile homes on support blocks at a predetermined site; the hoist, in the general nature of a low bed vehicle, being a modification of, and for the same purpose as, the hoist disclosed in my U.S. Pat. No. 3,817,401, dated June 18, 1974, on SELF-PROPELLED DUAL-JACK HOIST.In the present embodiment, the hoist includes a low-level but spaced-aboveground, elongated hoist beam centrally disposed between, and supported by, a pair of elongated but low-profile, selectively driven, ground-engaging, endless track units; there being power-actuated, hoist beam supporting and lifting mechanism between said track units and the hoist beam operative to elevate the latter from an initial lowered position lying between the track units to a raised position thereabove and in which said hoist beam engages and lifts a mobile home from beneath and for shifting about as necessary for proper placement on the support blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Inventor: Clifford E. Becker