Abstract: A dockside cargo-handling platform lift apparatus is provided to be adjustable to desired vertical elevations through conventional scissor-action expandable support framework driven by hydraulic actuation power, and is improved to further include a pivotably mounted top deck platform surface which is adjustable to desired angular elevations through a pivotable support framework driven by hydraulic actuation power to move against a free end portion of the platform surface.

Abstract: A collapsible electric foot-toe guard is employed with a loading platform having electric controlled lift and descent movements, functioning as a safety device in the protection against unwitting protrusion of human limbs into the path of descent of the platform lift, said collapsible foot-toe guard being comprised of an outwardly depended contact plate moveably engaging a base support plate through hinge means to permit said contact plate with contact thereof to fold toward the base support plate, such folding movement effective to break a normally open, held closed electric limit switch circuit to arrest descent of the platform lift.

Abstract: A platform positioned in a swimming pool has a slave hydraulic ram at each corner which raise and lower the platform. Each ram has a barrel attached to the platform and a piston rod which is supported on the bottom of the pool. There is a hydraulic motor for each slave ram. The hydraulic fluid in this system is water. Each hydraulic motor comprises a cylinder with a piston therein. Each time that the pistons of the motor cylinders are retracted make-up water flows into the system from a tank. The pistons of the motor cylinders are actuated in unison by a single main cylinder. The main cylinder is operated by hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic pump through a control valve.

Abstract: A dock lift has a platform connected at each side to a frame by a scissors apparatus. At one end, a pair of crossed hydraulic cylinders connect the platform and the frame. The hydraulic connections to the cylinders are made so that a load imposed on one side of the platform imposes a load on one cylinder which cylinder in turn causes fluid pressure to be applied to the other cylinder in the sense such that the other side of the platform is drawn downwardly to aid in maintaining the platform approximately level.