Extensible Patents (Class 280/638)
  • Patent number: 3967734
    Abstract: Improved foldable hand delivery cart made up of a main and a pair of side or wing panel sections interlockingly hinged together by means of hinge elements which extend for substantially the entire lengths of the panel sections and simultaneously form structural columnar support components for said panel sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1976
    Assignee: Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Melvin G. Morgan, Cal L. Dixon
  • Patent number: 3967743
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tractor trailer construction wherein the trailer has a pair of spaced side trusses each having an upper beam and a depending support for carrying a load. Telescoping connections under the control of fluid actuated cylinders are located between the trusses at opposite ends of the trailer whereby the trusses can be moved toward and away from one another for loading and unloading. The tractor is releasably coupled to the connection at the forward end of the trailer and a rear axle unit underlies the opposite rear end of the trailer. To load the trailer, dollies are provided to support the front end of the trailer and the tractor and connection between the trusses at the front end of the trailer are removed leaving the trailer open-ended. The trailer is then moved to straddle the load with the trusses lying on opposite sides of the load. The tractor is then reconnected, and the dollies are removed. The trusses are moved toward one another and are raised to engage and support the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1976
    Inventor: John W. Yoder
  • Patent number: 3966220
    Abstract: Transportation Apparatus is disclosed herein involving a system whereby small electrically driven vehicles are carried in a transporter vehicle. A loader is movably mounted on the transporter for loading and unloading the small vehicles onto the transporter in selected storage spaces. Each small vehicle is provided with a telescoping frame for shortening the wheelbase for storage purposes and for extending the wheelbase for independent vehicle operation on surface roadways. The transporter vehicle and small electrically driven passenger vehicles are adapted to operate combined on, or independently use in common, traffic arteries such as highways or expressways and surface streets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Inventors: Robert W. Forsyth, John P. Forsyth
  • Patent number: 3964565
    Abstract: A self-propelled high clearance machine for agricultural uses such as a sprayer having laterally adjustable drop axle wheel support means that may be positioned in a number of different settings to adapt the sprayer for universal use in the spraying of different crops that have been planted with variations in the width or spacing between their rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1976
    Assignee: John Blue Company Division of Subscription Television, Inc.
    Inventors: Wesley J. Cagle, Ronald F. Hodge
  • Patent number: 3954198
    Abstract: A lift truck for vehicles comprising a telescopic support. Two wheel-carrying axles extend from one and the same side of the support. Two lifting arms extend from said one side of the support between and parallel to the axles. When the support is contracted the lifting arms engage opposite sides of a vehicle wheel situated between them. Continued contraction of the telescopic support extends an upward component of force on the vehicle wheel and lifts it clear of the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1976
    Inventor: Franz X. Sedelmayer
  • Patent number: 3953045
    Abstract: A combination golf bag and golf cart for use upon a golf course for transportation of golf clubs and balls, and which includes a hollow lower body where golf playing equipment may be placed and which is enclosed on top by a removable top body, the lower body being supported upon a pair of wheels for travel over a ground, and the device also including a pivotable handle by which the device may be pulled, the handle when in non-use is pivoted upwardly so to fit under the upper body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Inventor: Valentine G. Feret, Jr.