Abstract: A dolly assembly includes a parent dolly including a support frame that defines a truck-receiving volume. A child dolly includes a support frame that is sized to be received within the truck-receiving volume. The child dolly includes a child dolly carousel. The parent dolly and the child dolly together include a locking assembly including a locking arm that prevents rotation of the child dolly carousel in a locked position.

Abstract: A parcel cart for transporting parcels comprises a substructure, with a frame mounted to and supported by the substructure. The frame defines an internal volume in which parcels are received and stored for transport. The frame also includes: a base; a first end wall; a second end wall; a first side wall; and a second side wall. To facilitate loading or unloading of the parcel cart, the frame can include at least one end wall configured to transition between an upright position and a lowered position. To facilitate autonomous transport of the parcel cart, the substructure and the frame can define a cavity for receiving a mobile robot. To avoid occlusion of the field of view of one or more cameras associated with the mobile robot, the frame can include at least one end wall that is in a non-perpendicular orientation relative to the base.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and vehicles for loading and unloading cargo into or out of a large transport vehicle, such as an aircraft, utilizing a curved path are described. The systems and methods include one or more support structures disposed, either permanently or removably, within a cargo bay of the transport vehicle to form a curved path extending into an aft portion of the cargo bay. During loading, the payload can move in the aft direction while concurrently rotating about a center point of an arc. In some embodiments, the cargo bay can include a kinked portion disposed between a proximal and aft portions of the cargo bay, with the curved path extending at least through the kinked portion and into the aft portion. Methods, systems, and components thereof for assembling a cargo, unloading cargo from a large transport vehicle, and disassembling a cargo are also provided.

Abstract: A train made up of a plurality of rail vehicles, each rail vehicle including a body defining an upper level able and intended to accommodate and transport passengers, and a lower level intended to load, transport and unload freight, the lower level having a lower floor defined by the body. An assembly of such a train, and a station able to receive the train in a stopped position allowing travelers to embark and disembark.

Abstract: A tubular steel frame housing module built in a factory and then transferred within a standard intermodal shipping container for installation within a structural framework at a remote building site.

Abstract: An apparatus for receiving waste contained in a container. The apparatus including a housing and a receiving mechanism coupled to the housing. The receiving mechanism is configured to receive the container. The apparatus further includes an analysis mechanism coupled to the housing; the analysis mechanism is configured to analyze the container.

Abstract: A cart for storage of items, such as air passenger luggage, and transport thereof between, e.g., airport sorting apparatus and aircrafts, comprises a chassis and a storage section. The storage section comprises one or more shelves, each of which is inclined with respect to the chassis, to allow items to be moved under the action of gravity between a loading end and an unloading end of the cart. A releasable closure structure is provided at the lower end of the shelf. The closure structure may form a continuation of the shelf when in its non-closing position. The cart is suited for automatic or manual loading and unloading of items.

Abstract: A removable, modular, cargo deck trailer system may include different types of modular, interchangeable, removable deck units which are configured to be removably and interchangeably attached to a trailer. The different types of modular, interchangeable, removable deck units may collectively include a plurality of moving apparatus for moving cargo in a lengthwise direction relative to the deck units, for moving cargo in a vertical direction relative to the deck units, and for moving cargo in at least one of a widthwise direction relative to the deck units, and in a rotating direction relative to the deck units.

Abstract: A delivery rack system for transporting a dolly. The delivery rack system includes a frame disposed on a plurality of wheels. The frame includes a side rail and first and second transverse rails disposed proximate the side rail. The side rail, the first transverse rail, and second transverse rail cooperate to define a compartment adapted to receive the dolly.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for housing cargo-moving devices in a cargo handling system. The apparatus comprises a variable width tray having a wide section, a narrow section, and a transition section for connecting the narrow section to the wide section. The narrow section is configured to house narrow cargo-moving devices such as rollers and lock/stops, while the wide section is configured to house wide cargo-moving devices such as power drive units. The variable width tray can be further configured to mount within a transport vehicle such as a commercial aircraft.

Abstract: A dolly device for loading and unloading a container which comprises a control frame that pivots among a plurality of operational positions such that the control frame facilitates the loading or unloading of the container and supports the container while being transported from location to location.

Abstract: A loading system for loading a cargo deck in a cargo space of an aircraft with cargo holders is proposed, in which there are provided two pairs of mounting tracks with support rollers and transverse cargo latches, a middle mounting rail for the attachment of transverse cargo latches, and rows of side-mounted transverse cargo latches. The distance between the outer mounting track of each pair of mounting, tracks and the middle mounting rail corresponds to a first, lesser fixation distance of relatively smaller cargo holders (LD2). The distance between the outer mounting track of one pair and the inner mounting track of the opposite pair corresponds to a second, greater transverse fixation distance of relatively larger cargo holders (LD3). As a result it is possible to load a cargo space optimally even if the construction of the aircraft produces constrictions of the cargo space.

Abstract: A wheeled transporter for air cargo includes a load carrying platform having rollers, connected at one edge to a power console incorporating a prime mover, and supported at the other edge with unpowered castoring wheels. The transporter is driven by two steerable wheels located beneath the console adjacent opposite ends. Each steerable wheel is driven by a reversible motor, and is steerable so that when one wheel is turned in one direction the other is turned in an opposite direction. The transporter can thus be driven in either direction along path (X), and turned or rotated on (Z). By turning the wheels through 90 degrees to the longitudinal direction, the transporter can be driven along a path (Y) in either direction, and steered by varying the differential speed of the wheels. A container carried on the deck can be moved and rotated in directions X', Y' and Z'.

Abstract: An adaptor is provided for a vehicle load bed having stake pockets along lateral edges. The adaptor allows pallets having indented peripheries to roll over the bed and to be locked in place on the bed. The adaptor has a base lying on the bed and guides in the form of upright walls disposed along lateral edges of the base. The guides keep the pallet on the bed as the pallet rides along the bed. Stakes on the bottom of the base are locked into the pockets to retain the adaptor to the bed. Extending from the walls are lips disposed over the pallet so as to limit or eliminate the pallet's vertical travel. The pallets ride on elongate rollers journalled between roller supports. The supports are fixed on the base parallel to the walls. Apertures of the same shape are defined both in the lips and the base and are aligned with one another. To fix the pallets to the adaptor, locking members are passed through the lip apertures, fit with indents of the pallets and passed through the base apertures.

Abstract: A cart includes at least one bed of rollers for receiving, supporting and discharging a workpiece such as a burn-in board for semiconductor component testing. The cart includes a locking mechanism which does not need manipulation by an operator to positively lock the workpiece in place once put on the roller bed. Positive manipulation of the locking mechanism is then required for workpiece discharge and maximum operator safety.

Abstract: A truck for use in an auto tray changer capable of supplying and discharging a plurality of trays into and from the auto tray changer all at once, respectively, includes a loading portion having a bottom plate, in which the trays for loading working pieces or worked pieces are stacked, each corner of the bottom plate being provided with a wheel, respectively, which is capable of freely rotating, a pair of rail portions for transporting the trays stacked thereon back and forth on the bottom plate, a pair of stopper means mounted at front of each of the rail potions for selectively transporting the tray stacked at the bottom of the stack on the bottom plate, and a handle portion mounted at back of the loading portion.

Abstract: A self-erecting guide for centering and for vertically restraining smaller than full width pallets in a transport vehicle, such as an airplane, having a floor structure and rollers connected to the floor structure and defining a roller plane for rollingly supporting pallets above the floor structure such that the pallets may roll longitudinally includes a plurality of rollers such that pallets contacting the guide contact a rotatable surface resulting in less galling and wear to guide and pallets. The guide generally includes a hinge assembly, fore and aft pivots, a frame, and erection springs. In an erect position, the hinge assembly forms a shallow inverted V in side view with hinge axis at the apex such that a moving full size pallet contacting hinge assembly top forces the hinge assembly into a retracted position below the roller plane.

Abstract: Loads, such as pallets or freight containers, are guided and restrained on the loading floor of an aircraft by a device which provides guide rollers oriented in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft to hold pieces of freight in the horizontal direction. Additionally, cantilevered latching members hold a piece of freight against vertical and/or tilting movements. Both, the guide elements and the latching members are mounted to be tilted into the floor structure. The latching members perform simultaneously a rotating movement and a tilting movement when the device is moved or tilted into its recessed position below a top surface of the loading floor.

Abstract: A pallet brake track assembly for use in an inclined pallet flow system to maintain slow movement of descending loaded pallets and including, in its most preferred embodiment, first and second frame members extending in parallel to form an extended inner channel, a plurality of inner axles transversely connected between the first and second frame members and located within the extended inner channel, a plurality of inner wheels rotatably mounted on the plurality of inner axles, a plurality of inner cylindrical spacers with axial slits for snap-on assembly coaxially connected around the plurality of inner axles, a brake apparatus located at least partially within the extended inner channel and including a support assembly connected to the first and second frame members and a cylindrical brake drum with a rubber contact surface rotatably connected to the support assembly, a plurality of outer axles connected to at least one of the first and second frame members adjacent to the brake apparatus, each of the outer

Abstract: A trailer mounted boat retaining device that attaches to the bow eye bolt of a boat in order to hold the boat in place on the trailer. The retaining device consists of a Y-shaped set of padded brakets having a locking assembly at the junction. A spring-loaded trigger pin in the locking assembly is pushed by the eye bolt of the boat as it enters the trailer equipped with the invention, so that when the boat moves the pin far enough forward, a separate locking pin springs through the eye bolt of the boat holding the boat in place. A signal plate is provided that emits an audible sound when the locking pin springs into place. A separate safety bolt is also provided to hold the locking pin in place when the trailer holding the invention and boat is in motion.

Abstract: An automatic boat bow latch has an elongated sloping lip for properly positioning the bow hook into the latch; a pair of guide arms equipped with rollers to guide the bow into proper alignment with the latch as well as protect both the bow of the boat and the bow latch.

Abstract: An automatically operating boat locking assembly includes a spring-loaded bolt which engages through the bow eye of a boat to secure the boat on a trailer and which can be withdrawn to free the boat for removal from the trailer. The bolt can be rotated in its withdrawn position to engage a portion of a frame of the assembly which prevents return of the bolt to the extended locking position. A trigger member carried by a frame of the locking assembly is contacted by the bow eye of the boat as the boat approaches the trailer and rotates the bolt whereupon the spring associated therewith returns the bolt to the locking position, through the bow eye locking the boat on the trailer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for securing a boat to a trailer. The mechanism for securing the boat is electrically driven and may include a motor driven reciprocating pin. The device is remotely actuated for example by a radio transmitter.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for connecting the bow of a boat to the staff of a boat-trailer. A horizontal bar is connected at one end of a staff and extends toward the rear of the trailer. This bar has a notch near the rear end. A swinging lock arm is pivotally attached to the horizontal bar and in the free position extends above and below the bar. A holding bar frame is attached to the bow of the boat and is substantially U-shaped with the open at the bottom. A round holding bar extends across the open end of the frame. A rolling bar is carried by a stop and release bar assembly which is guided up and down vertically by slots in the side members of the frame. When docking, the horizontal bar and swinging lock arm goes through the space between the round holding bar and the movable rolling bar. As soon as the horizontal bar passes through this space the swinging arms drop down and form a locking T-shape.

Abstract: A trailer for a pontoon boat or other multiple-hull water craft has a pair of V-shaped glide members positioned for supporting the pontoons along substantially their entire length. The glide members are covered with a fabric, such as carpet, and are provided with a plurality of rollers in the bight of the V to provide superior support and to assist in loading and unloading a craft. The glides and frame beneath are articulated so that a rear trailer portion may be pivoted to assist in loading and unloading a craft. The trailer wheels are located laterally beyond the glides to provide exceptional load stability.

Abstract: A trailer wherein a body frame supports front and rear wheels rotatably at the left and right side portions thereof; a cargo base member has a plurality of rotors for transferring a cargo, arranged rotatably and in a mutually spaced manner on the cargo base member; and stoppers are provided at the front, rear, left and right portions of the body frame and the central portion of the cargo base member so that the stoppers can be vertically moved by operating rods connected to all of the stoppers for holding the cargo on the cargo base member. The front, rear, left and right stoppers are urged so that the stoppers normally project to a level higher than the upper surfaces of the rotors on the cargo base member. The central stopper is provided pivotably and movable vertically so that the cargo can be rotated easily on the cargo base member.

Abstract: A towable truck with a rotatable platform for transferring cargo units from or to intermediate transportation devices, for handling goods in particular within airport structures. The platform comprises alternate projecting and re-entering parts which, when the truck is in its loading or unloading position, are disposed along the longitudinal sides of this latter and are suitably designed for approach and copenetration by intermediate transportation devices or the like comprising complementary terminal parts provided with motorized rollers, so as to allow automatic transfer of the cargo units.

Abstract: A pivotal trailer extension including a pivotable platform mounted to an upwardly extending support member for trailers. The platform has mounted thereon a winch and a "V"-shaped chock block. The platform is dynamically pivoted when the bow of the boat is winched onto the trailer and into the "V" block during the loading of the boat from the water at a sloped boat dock and remains fully chock-up as the floating boat settles on the bunks when the trailer is pulled from the water.

Abstract: A "no-lift" container trailer is disclosed having a vertically movable roller tray with parallel rollers thereon which when tangent to the roll plane, and solely support a container thereon allow the container to be moved onto or off the trailer. A vertically movable caster tray of the trailer has fixed caster wheels thereon with their axes of rotation intersecting a vertical axis near the center of the trailer. When the wheels provide sole support for the container at the roll plane the container may be rotated about the vertical axis to any desired position. Manually operated cams are provided to sequentially move only the rollers tangent to the roll plane for supporting the container only on the rollers to move both the rollers and wheels tangent to the roll plane, and to move the rollers below the roll plane for supporting the container only on the wheels thus transferring the containers between the rollers and the wheel at the roll plane without lifting the container.

Abstract: A retainer device for use in combination with a boat trailer. The device includes a platform member having a slot formed therein which receives the bow eyelet of a boat. A hook is attached to the platform member and may secure the bow eyelet within the slot.

Abstract: The driver's cab and the rearloading, trash compactor of a conventional compactor vehicle are mounted on an elongated frame to provide a central, longitudinally-extending, space for separated discards collection apparatus. A single vehicle, small crew and a single stop thus enables both resource recovery and refuse collection. A power telescopable paper rack, is located between a power dump glass bucket and a power dump can bucket on one side of the space with access at curbside level and a glass bin and can bin are roll supported on the other side of the space for off loading laterally when filled.

Abstract: A trailer for loading and unloading fences and includes two rollers at the rear of the trailer for assisting passage of fence sections onto the trailer. The rollers are drawn via a pulley which is movable into and out of contact with a wheel of the trailer. A sprocket is connected to the pulley and one roller and an endless chain engaged the sprocket to drive the rollers. The trailer may be tilted relative to its drawbar to assist in loading and unloading the fences.

Abstract: A mobile cargo handling system and method is provided for transferring containers relatively long distances between two locations by a steerable, self-propelled transporter which is connected to a dolly supported on swivel casters so that the longitudinal axes of the transporter and dolly are maintained parallel to a vertical plane when the system is moving along a circuitous path. The dolly includes a roller deck, and the transporter includes a powered roller deck which is selectively controlled to drive one or more containers onto and off of both roller decks.