Abstract: A material handling vehicle is provided, which includes a counterweight assembly. The counterweight assembly includes a counterweight, a positioning member, and a position adjuster. The position adjuster is configured to advance or retreat the positioning member to adjust a distance the positioning member emerges from the counterweight thereby adjusting a position of the counterweight relative to a frame of the material handling vehicle.

Abstract: A jig is provided for assembly of a knockdown centralizer of the type having upper and lower collars interconnected by a plurality of spring members, said collars including a plurality of arcuate collar portions with pockets therein for receiving ends of said spring members. A first support structure of the jig supports a first arcuate collar portion assembly which includes upper and lower first arcuate collar portions with first and second spring members connected therebetween. A second support structure of the jig supports a second arcuate collar portion assembly so that a radially inward projecting channel of one of the collar portion assemblies overlaps with a radially outward projecting channel of the other of the collar portion assemblies.

Abstract: An improved centralizer includes upper and lower collars with a plurality of spring members attached at upper and lower ends to said collars. Each of said collars includes a first and second arcuate collar portion. A first peripheral end portion of said first collar portion includes a radially outward projecting channel. A second peripheral end portion of said second arcuate collar portion includes a radially inward projecting channel which overlaps with said outward projecting channel to define an axially extending hole which receives a latch pin. A novel connection between the collars and spring members is also provided. The collars include a continuous integrally formed peripherally extending bar spaced radially outward from a radially outer surface of the collars, upper and lower peripheral slots adjacent upper and lower edges of the bar and an upper compression bearing surface.

Abstract: An improved centralizer includes upper and lower collars with a plurality of spring members attached at upper and lower ends to said collars. Each of said collars includes a first and second arcuate collar portion. A first peripheral end portion of said first collar portion includes a radially outward projecting channel. A second peripheral end portion of said second arcuate collar portion includes a radially inward projecting channel which overlaps with said outward projecting channel to define an axially extending hole which receives a latch pin. A novel connection between the collars and spring members is also provided. The collars include a continuous integrally formed peripherally extending bar spaced radially outward from a radially outer surface of the collars, upper and lower peripheral slots adjacent upper and lower edges of the bar, and an upper compression bearing surface.

Abstract: A universal fabricated backstop/buffstop comprising a pair of parallel, juxtaposed side plates, each side plate having a channel therein, a forward transverse member having the ends thereof secured to the pair of side plates and having a slot located in the center of the forward transverse member, and a rear transverse member having the ends thereof secured to the pair of side plates.