Patents Assigned to Krupp Foerdertechnik GmbH
  • Patent number: 5724691
    Abstract: A deployable bridge is assembled from individual components. The components include cross girders and pavement slabs disposed between the cross girders, the cross girders each having opposite ends and first and second continuous girders each disposed along one of the opposite ends, respectively, of the cross girders. Each continuous girder comprises an upwardly pointing truss having top and bottom chords and truss members arranged between the top and bottom chords and connected to the top and bottom chords at top and bottom nodal points, respectively. The top and bottom chords are each divided in regions of the top and bottom nodal points into a plurality of top chord members and bottom chord members. Each continuous girder further includes connecting elements connecting together the top chord members and connecting together the bottom chord members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Krupp Foerdertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Norbert Wiedeck, Wolfgang Diefendahl