Abstract: A device for raising and lowering a load while preventing swinging of the load comprising a container bridge having a displaceable trolley thereon, the trolley carrying a drum for hoisting cables which pass over sheaves to the load for raising and lowering the load by wind-up and pay-out of the cables. In order to prevent swinging of the load, a positioning wire extends from a drum on the trolley to the load at an oblique inclination which forms an angle with respect to the hoisting cables.

Abstract: A container loading and unloading device is described wherein containers are raised along a substantially vertical path, thereafter displaced along a horizontal path and finally lowered along a vertical path. The device comprises at least one horizontal girder supported by a frame; at least two hoists disposed for raising and lowering of the containers, the hoists being supported by and movable over the girder and operatively positioned a distance from each other; and at least one substantially horizontally extending continuous conveyor for the horizontal displacement of the containers. Such conveyor is situated between the hoists and includes a support for at least one container and means for displacing such support and container placed thereon along a horizontal path from a point near one hoist to a point near the other.