Abstract: A number of embodiments of low, stable, self-propelled vehicles adapted to carry disabled, infirmed or elderly persons. In each embodiment there is provided a load carrying floor that has its upper surface spaced below the axis of rotation of the rear wheels and which may be raised or lowered for facilitating entry onto the floor. In many embodiments, a wheelchair is adapted to be supported on the floor and a movable stop pivots upon movement of the floor between a raised and a lowered position. In each position, the stop functions to retain a wheelchair in place.

Abstract: A chewable delivery system for actives comprising:(a) an active pre-coated with at least one material selected from the group consisting of lecithin, polyoxyalkylenes having chain lengths of about 4 carbons or less, glycerides having a melting point of 100.degree. C. or less, polyalkyleneglycols having a molecular weight of 3,700 or less, synthetic and natural waxes and mixtures thereof; and(b) a confectionery matrix comprising a binder system comprising gelatin and a humectant material selected from the group consisting of glycerin and its lower alkyl (C.sub.2-7) ester derivatives; a sweetener; and about 1% to about 30% by weight water.

Abstract: The invention concerns an inside loader, designed as a trailer for a semi-tractor, for road traffic, and for loading, transporting and unloading transportation racks, preferably for plate glass. The loader includes an undercarriage having parallel longitudinal members, on the outside of each of which are located the axles of one side of the trailer. The axles are individually mounted on axle rocker arms supported by air shocks which, in their filled condition, serve as axle shocks, and in their empty condition are used to load or unload a transportation racks. Preferably, the invention's inside loader is equipped at the back of the undercarriage with a hinged gate which, when closed, connects the longitudinal members of the undercarriage with one another.

Abstract: A process and installation for transferring pallets for loading (or unloading) a commonplace vehicle, in which trucks, coupled together in rows, are deployed under the load from an accumulation machine, loading then being effected by raising the elevator means of said trucks, followed by a translational movement of the rows in the axis of the vehicle. Then the loads are set down by controlling, from the accumulation machine, lowering of said elevation means then return of the rows of trucks into the accumulation machine.

Abstract: The invention concerns an inside loader, designed as a trailer for a semi-tractor, for road traffic, and for loading, transporting and unloading transportation racks, preferably for plate glass. The loader includes an undercarriage having parallel longitudinal members, on the outside of each of which are located the axles of one side of the trailer. The axles are individually mounted on axle rocker arms supported by air shocks which, in their filled condition, serve as axle shocks, and in their empty condition are used to load or unload a transportation racks. Preferably, the invention's inside loader is equipped at the back of the undercarriage with a hinged gate which, when closed, connects the longitudinal members of the undercarriage with one another.

Abstract: A wheeled truck including a platform defining a planar support surface having first and second opposite ends, two wheels attached to the platform at the first end thereof and two wheels attached to the platform at the second end thereof utilizes hinges for hingedly securing the two wheels located at the second end to the platform and a lever member for raising and lowering the second support surface end to thereby facilitate the loading and unloading of the truck. The hingedly-secured wheels are each pivotally movable relative to the platform between an operative condition at which the hingedly-secured wheels operatively support the second support surface end in an elevated condition for transporting purposes and a non-operative condition at which the hingedly-secured wheels are positioned so as to permit the second support surface end to be raised and lowered between the elevated condition and a lowered condition at which the support surface forms a ramp.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wagon or cart specially designed for removing logs--particularly those of great weight and diameter--from the site at which the logs were cut, to a truck or other vehicle used for transporting the logs to a remote destination. The log wagon includes a box-like, rectangular receptacle, open at one end, to facilitate rolling of logs into and out of the wagon. At the open end, ground wheels are rotatably mounted upon bell cranks or equivalent angular links or levers, pivoted at one end to the receptacle or log cradle. The other ends are adapted to be separably connected to a handle. When the handle is rocked in one direction, it lowers the log cradle, locating a curved bottom pan thereof against the ground so that logs can be conveniently rolled into or out of the cradle. When rocked in the other direction, the handle causes the lever to travel over dead center, elevating the open end of the cradle.

Abstract: A trailer structure, having a mechanical loading system, to transport bins especially as used for agricultural products. The rearward portion of the trailer is lowered for bin pick up and loading, without raising the forward portion of the trailer, by a bell-crank type wheel mounting system. The trailer provides a unitary side-beam type frame and is mechanically powered by hydraulic devices.

Abstract: A silo mover apparatus comprising a main frame that is movable across the ground on a plurality of support wheels, and which has a subframe pivotallymounted thereon adjacent one end. The subframe can be raised about the pivot to a substantially vertical position through the use of hydraulic cylinders, stabilized in position adjacent to a silo to be moved, clamped to the silo by straps, after the silo has been suitably reinforced, and then the silo can be lifted and tilted downwardly with the subframe to rest on the main frame for transport to a new location. At the new location the silo is then raised by raising the subframe about its pivot, to place the silo onto the desired platform, after which the members that clamp the silo and subframe together are removed.

Abstract: A retractable wheel apparatus adapted to be attached to a frame and having a first and second arm pivotally attached along the horizontal axis. Each end of each suspension arm has a wheel assembly attached thereto and each suspension arm has a combination shock absorbing and retracting mechanism attached thereto. The first and second suspension arms are independently pivotally attached so that they can react independently to bumps in the road. Furthermore the suspension arms can move to independently pivot as a unit about the first horizontal axis to travel over irregular terrain so that the two-wheel assemblies can pivot about the first horizontal axis to minimize the amount of reciprocation of the wheel assemblies with respect to each other, which would cause excessive wear and a rougher ride.

Abstract: A loader and transporter for large loads such as cotton modules has a wheel-mounted main frame, which may be self-propelled or of tractor-drawn trailer type, a deck, incorporating a reversible longitudinal conveyor, being connected by a transverse pivotal connection to the main frame. Lifting means are provided for raising and lowering this pivotal connection and the deck and tilting means are provided for tilting the deck so that, when the deck is lowered, it can be tilted from a substantially horizontal low-load travelling position to a position for loading from ground level, and when the deck is raised, it can be tilted from a substantially horizontal high-load travelling position to a position for unloading onto a semi-trailer, for example.

Abstract: The side rails of the chassis of a fixed bed truck are cut at the front end of the rear springs and pivotally interconnected using hinges incorporating hinge pins which are positioned below those side rails. A deck is secured to the rear section of the chassis for movement between a rearwardly inclined position and a lowered position in which it extends over the front section of the chassis. An apron is pivotally mounted on the rear end of the deck for movement between an extended ramp position and a retracted position in which it depends downwardly from the deck. Hydraulic apparatus are provided for tilting the deck, extending the apron and latching the deck in its lowered position. The hinges and the latching systems are constructed so that the truck can still be driven safely even after structural failure of both hinge pins.

Abstract: A forage stack moving device has a tongue and bed mechanism rigidly secured to each other in which a plurality of endless chain elements pass over a plurality of longitudinal beam members and are driven by a mechanism driving all chains in unison while loading and unloading a stack. The bed mechanism is supported by a pair of fourbar linkages, each having a pair of substantially vertically extending arms pivotally joined to a longitudinally extending carriage member to which are secured a pair of wheels, each longitudinally extending member having a hydraulically controlled extensible member connected to the bed mechanism to move the carriage member and the wheels secured thereto, causing the bed mechanism to tilt for loading and unloading and to be substantially level during transportation of any forage stack on the bed mechanism.

Abstract: Bales made from successive charges of material packed against one another are readily separable into relatively discrete "flakes" corresponding to the charges of material from which the bale is built. By passing the bale over the top edge of an incline just before reaching disintegrating mechanism, the leading end flakes of the bale are induced to successively separate therefrom for advancement on down the incline and delivery into the disintegrating mechanism on a more or less individual basis, thereby promoting clog-free operation and even feeding.