Off Center Patents (Class 105/272)
  • Patent number: 12195055
    Abstract: A vehicle for transporting cargo has a deck and a group of cradles. Each cradle in the group is pivotable relative to the deck between an extended configuration in which the cradles extend at a transverse angle relative to the deck, and a collapsed configuration in which the cradles are substantially flush with the deck. The vehicle has an actuator adapted to concurrently pivot two or more cradles in the group between the extended configuration and the collapsed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventor: Barry Clive O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 11994344
    Abstract: An installation for recycling contaminated scrap metal includes a furnace frame and a melting furnace arranged within the furnace frame and configured to tilt, and a hood-like housing. The melting furnace includes an upper melting furnace opening and a casting device configured to cast a metal melt produced in the melting furnace into a pan. The hood-like housing is positioned on a top of the melting furnace and surrounds and covers the upper melting furnace opening. The hood-like housing includes at least one door, and a flue gas removal system coupled to the hood-like housing in a gas-tight manner and configured to tilt along with the melting furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: ABP Induction Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Lindecke
  • Patent number: 4266486
    Abstract: A door linkage for a side dump railroad car operable to automatically lower the door on the low side of the car when the car body is tilted to dump its contents thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1981
    Assignee: The Maxson Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas A. Puariea
  • Patent number: 4141796
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for receiving and transporting hot coke in a coke oven pushing operation and controlling emissions resulting therefrom comprising a one spot quench car having a receptacle which is tiltable to a coke receiving position, a travel and quench position, and a coke discharging position. A hood structure is provided to confine the gases during pushing and a collecting main removes the gases to a remote location for cleaning thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Assignee: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Howard E. Clark, Norman D. Hodgson
  • Patent number: 3974909
    Abstract: A tilting tray sorting conveyor comprising a track, a plurality of carriers on said track, a conveyor interconnecting said carriers and adapted to be driven to move said carriers along said track. Each carrier has a tray pivotally mounted thereon about an axis generally parallel to said track and a tilting yoke fixed thereto. Cam means along said track engage the tilting yoke and move said yoke in one direction to tilt said tray to one side and move said yoke in the other direction to tilt said tray to the opposite side of the track. Latch means are operable to hold said tray in normal upright position or to permit the tray to be tilted to one side or the other of said track. The latch means includes an escapement member mounted for generally vertical movement on the carriage and means yieldingly urging said escapement member to a neutral position corresponding to the upright position of said tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: American Chain & Cable Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard B. Johnson