Abstract: A load arm for a fork of a low lift industrial truck, with an arm frame which is approximately U- or C-shaped in cross section with upward pointing bridge and downward pointing legs and an arm tip, which is connected to the arm frame via a welding connection, wherein the arm tip, tapered towards the free end, has bearing openings for the bearing of a load roller and introduction and withdrawal surfaces on the lower side, which ascend or fall off, respectively, towards the free end of the arm tip with respect to the lower edges or brims of the arm frame, and wherein the arm tip has an abutting surface at the rear end, which abuts against the blunt end of the arm frame, wherein the arm tip is formed by an integral piece of cast material, the arm tip has arm sections on the end facing the arm frame, which extend below the associated edges or brims of the arm frame and sit snugly on the lower edges or brims of the arm frame when arm frame and arm tip cling together, and the withdrawal surfaces are provided on the

Abstract: Low lift truck, with a load part, which has a load carrying means and is coupled with a drive part via a lift cylinder arrangement and a bar linkage for load wheels of the load carrying means, a steered drive wheel, which forms with a drive motor a drive unit, which is rotatably bearing mounted around a vertical axis by the frame of the drive part, a drawbar, pivotable in the drive part around a horizontal and a vertical axis, which is in a driving connection with the drive unit, an hydraulic power pack for the hydraulic lift cylinder arrangement, and a battery casing, connected with the load part, whereby the drive motor is a wheel hub motor and the battery casing (34) is disposed above the drive unit.

Abstract: A braking device for an industrial truck, comprising an electromagnetic brake unit on a load-bearing wheel and/or driving motor, a brake pedal the position of which is detected by an electric position detector which generates an analog electric braking signal, and a brake control into which the analog braking signal in input and which generates a control signal to actuate the brake unit electromagnetically in response to the analog braking signal, characterized in that the area of the end position of the brake pedal has associated therewith a signal transmitter connected to the brake control which provides a first signal to the brake control when the brake pedal is within the range of response of the signal transmitter and the brake control generates a control signal for the brake unit that causes a hard stop.

Abstract: A load arm for a fork of a low lift industrial truck, with an arm frame which is approximately U- or C-shaped in cross section with upward pointing bridge and downward pointing legs and an arm tip, which is connected to the arm frame via a welding connection, wherein the arm tip, tapered towards the free end, has bearing openings for the bearing of a load roller and introduction and withdrawal surfaces on the lower side, which ascend or fall off, respectively, towards the free end of the arm tip with respect to the lower edges or brims of the arm frame, and wherein the arm tip has an abutting surface at the rear end, which abuts against the blunt end of the arm frame, wherein the arm tip is formed by an integral piece of cast material, the arm tip has arm sections on the end facing the arm frame, which extend below the associated edges or brims of the arm frame and sit snugly on the lower edges or brims of the arm frame when arm frame and arm tip cling together, and the withdrawal surfaces are provided on the

Abstract: A braking system for battery-powered industrial trucks, comprising a three-phase driving motor which drives a driving wheel, a first braking device associated with the driving wheel, a brake pedal with which a braking signal generator is associated to generate an electric braking signal corresponding to a first desired braking force in response to the excursion of the brake pedal, a control device for the driving motor, a first conversion unit in the control device which converts said braking signal into a desired torque for the driving motor, a second conversion unit in the control device which converts the actual torque of the driving motor into an actual braking force, a comparator device in a braking control in which the first desired braking force is compared to the actual braking force to form a second desired braking force for the second braking device.

Abstract: Low lift truck, with a load part, which has a load carrying means and is coupled with a drive part via a lift cylinder arrangement and a bar linkage for load wheels of the load carrying means, a steered drive wheel, which forms with a drive motor a drive unit, which is rotatably bearing mounted around a vertical axis by the frame of the drive part, a drawbar, pivotable in the drive part around a horizontal and a vertical axis, which is in a driving connection with the drive unit, an hydraulic power pack for the hydraulic lift cylinder arrangement, and a battery causing, connected with the load part, whereby the drive motor is a wheel hub motor and the battery casing (34) is disposed above the drive unit.

Abstract: A fork-lift reach truck having a driving portion and a mast portion wherein the driving portion has at least one steerable rear driving wheel driven by a drive motor, and a steering motor to steeringly operate the driving wheel, and two load-carrying front wheels which are rotatably supported in parallel-spaced wheel arms, electromagnetic braking devices for the load-carrying wheels, and a control device for controlling the drive motor, the steering motor, and the braking devices in dependence on the actuation of control elements in the fork-lift reach truck, wherein each load-carrying wheel or a ring-shaped disc mounted on the load-carrying wheel, laterally in a circumferential direction and at a uniform spacing, has teeth, elevations and/or slots or the like, and that the wheel arm has fixed thereto a proximity sensor which, upon rotation of the load-carrying wheel, in a speed-dependent way generates sensor pulses which are inputted to said control device.

Abstract: A braking system for battery-powered industrial trucks, comprising a three-phase driving motor which drives a driving wheel, a first braking device associated with the driving wheel, a brake pedal with which a braking signal generator is associated to generate an electric braking signal corresponding to a first desired braking force in response to the excursion of the brake pedal, a control device for the driving motor, a first conversion unit in the control device which converts said braking signal into a desired torque for the driving motor, a second conversion unit in the control device which converts the actual torque of the driving motor into an actual braking force, a comparator device in a braking control in which the first desired braking force is compared to the actual braking force to form a second desired braking force for the second braking device.

Abstract: A braking device for an industrial truck, comprising an electromagnetic brake unit on a load-bearing wheel and/or driving motor, a brake pedal the position of which is detected by an electric position detector which generates an analog electric braking signal, and a brake control into which the analog braking signal in input and which generates a control signal to actuate the brake unit electromagnetically in response to the analog braking signal, characterized in that the area of the end position of the brake pedal has associated therewith a signal transmitter connected to the brake control which provides a first signal to the brake control when the brake pedal is within the range of response of the signal transmitter and the brake control generates a control signal for the brake unit that causes a hard stop.