Patents Assigned to Marrel
  • Patent number: 6761524
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which is provided on a front face with a lifting bar. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position in which a hook interengages with the lifting bar on the load on being pivoted by a tilting actuator about a transverse pivot axis at the rear of the equipment and spaced downwardly from the longitudinal section of the handling arm. The transverse rear pivot axis is behind and under the side members of the chassis frame of the vehicle and the frame of the equipment has an L-shaped profile with a first branch on top of the side members of the chassis frame. An upper portion of the second branch is against the rear of the side members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Noël Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Patent number: 6712578
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which has a lifting bar on a front face. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position to which a hook adapted to interengage with the lifting bar is pivoted by a tilting actuator about a transverse pivot axis at the rear end of the equipment. The articulation about the transverse pivot axis is releasable and an actuator is provided to raise a link which is part of the handling arm by pivoting it upward and forward. The equipment can stand on its end a load which is at a greater height when standing on end than when it is positioned on the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Noël Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Publication number: 20020150454
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which is provided on a front face with a lifting bar. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position in which a hook interengages with the lifting bar on the load on being pivoted by a tilting actuator about a transverse pivot axis at the rear of the equipment and spaced downwardly from the longitudinal section of the handling arm. The transverse rear pivot axis is behind and under the side members of the chassis frame of the vehicle and the frame of the equipment has an L-shaped profile with a first branch on top of the side members of the chassis frame. An upper portion of the second branch is against the rear of the side members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: MARREL
    Inventors: Noel Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Publication number: 20020146310
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which has a lifting bar on a front face. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position to which a hook adapted to interengage with the lifting bar is pivoted by a tilting actuator it about a transverse pivot axis at the rear end of the equipment. The articulation about the transverse pivot axis is releasable and an actuator is provided to raise a link which is part of the handling arm by pivoting it upward and forward. The equipment can stand on its end a load which is at a greater height when standing on end than when it is positioned on the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: MARREL
    Inventors: Noel Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Patent number: 6158947
    Abstract: A device includes a handling structure which has an end portion and a remaining part. The device also includes a driving arrangement which drives the handling structure between (i) a position of transportation in which the remaining part is disposed along a chassis of the vehicle and in which the end portion is at the front, and (ii) a position of picking up a load or placing it on the ground where the end portion is at the rear of the remaining part and behind the vehicle with its free end at a certain height with respect to the ground, in order to cooperate with a load whose gripping means is lower. In addition, the device includes a connecting arrangement which connects the free end of the end portion to the gripping arrangement and a controlling arrangement which controls the distance between the gripping arrangement and the end of the end portion using which the later is attached to the remainder of the handling structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Thierry Goiran, Jean-Louis Claudinon
  • Patent number: 5542808
    Abstract: An apparatus which includes a tilting jack of which the axis on which it is articulated to the tilting structure is in front of the axis on which it is articulated on the frame and in which the tilting structure and the frame are so adapted that the effect of actuating the tilting jack is to cause a lifting hook to tilt about a first transverse tilting axis between a position for starting or finishing tilting and a position for changing the axis, and about a second transverse tilting axis between the position for changing the axis and a position for picking up a load from, or setting down on, the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Alain Chiron, Albert Heritier
  • Patent number: 5415199
    Abstract: Hydraulic actuators are fed by a single flow-rate generator, each being connected to it through a proportional directional valve, the unit including a device for detecting the highest of the pressures prevailing upstream of the throttle provided by a controlled spool in the respective proportional directional valves, and, in each of these an actuation device to cause the compensating spool to respond to the highest of the upstream pressures thus detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Claudinon, Andre Rousset
  • Patent number: 5395203
    Abstract: A support frame essentially provided for goods in the form of a container having corner pieces, for the attachment of which the support frame includes on a vertical portion, two locking devices for cooperation with the upper front corner pieces; and on a horizontal portion two locking devices for cooperation with the lower rear corner pieces, whereby the container attached to the support frame rigidifies the vertical portion and the horizontal portion with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Bernard Januel, Michel Robert
  • Patent number: 5386697
    Abstract: Hydraulic actuators are fed by a single flow-rate generator, each being connected to it through a proportional directional valve, the unit including at least one auxiliary valve fed by the flow-rate generator and producing a pressure which is normally equal to a regulation pressure increased by a constant, and in each proportional directional valve an actuating device causes the compensating spool to respond to the pressure produced by the auxiliary valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Claudinon, Andre Rousset
  • Patent number: 5281072
    Abstract: A wagon for carrying a lifting cradle having a wagon chassis and at least one pivotable body mounted to pivot about an axis for pivoting and guides for receiving at least one lifting cradle. Components for locking the lifting cradle to the chassis include a shaft fixed to the chassis and disposed along the vertical axis for pivoting, two attachment arms disposed on either side of a longitudinal plane of symmetry and mounted on the shaft to pivot between an unlocking configuration and a locking configuration, the arms including noses projecting laterally each adapted, in the locking configuration, to engage between two substantially transverse sides of a housing provided on the side beams of the lifting cradle and, in the unlocked configuration, to be outside the housings. Elements to control and guide the movement of the arms and to block the arms in the locked configuration are attached to the arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Patouillard, Paul Fanget, Jean-Louis Chevalier
  • Patent number: 5257844
    Abstract: A movable lifting cradle having two longitudinal beams at one end of each of which a vertical extension is fixed which carries at its top a holding bar. The bar is carried by a bar-carrying assembly having a fixed base on which is mounted, to pivot with a predetermined angular displacement about a transverse axis, a pivotable assembly of which the bar forms a part, the base being provided with members adapted to block the pivoting of the pivotable assembly in a first configuration in which the bar is at a first distance in front of a crossbeam of the lifting cradle and at a first height relative to the longitudinal beams, and in a second configuration in which the bar is at a second distance in front and at a second height, the first distance and height conforming to a first standard and the second distance and height conforming to a second standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Jean B. Patouillard, Albert Heritier
  • Patent number: 5222426
    Abstract: A proportional distributor embodying a controlled slide valve and a pressure compensator slide valve associated with additional positioning means whereby the pressure drop in the controlled slide valve depends upon the difference between the working and load sensing pressures according to a linear function with a strictly positive coefficient and a strictly negative constant. Each compensator slide valve operates according to the same linear function or at least one of its proportional distributors has a compensator slide valve operating according to a different linear function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Louis Marcon, Andre Rousset