Abstract: A mobile transport and storage system, comprising at least a storage container and a hand-controlled lifting wheel assembly is described. The storage container includes a substantially rectangular base and frame constructed with a rear wall, opposing side walls, a front wall, a roof and a floor having an underside, wherein one of the rear wall, front wall or opposing side walls include an opening, and two slides (longsills) defined in, or disposed on, the underside of the floor, wherein the two slides are substantially parallel to each other, and wherein the slides extend lengthwise in a direction extending from the front wall to the rear wall. The lifting wheel assembly includes a handle connected to a rectangular shaped base unit which serves as the body of the assembly. Included on the handle is a switch for activating the raising and lowering mechanism of the assembly unit, and a warning or caution beacon with an activation switch.

Abstract: A forklift truck includes a truck body, a fork, a mast, tilting and lifting mechanisms, tilt and lift levers, tilting and lifting operation detectors, an auxiliary switch, a tilt angle detector and a controller. The tilt and lift levers are adapted to operate the tilting and lifting mechanisms, respectively. The auxiliary switch is disposed on the lift lever at a position where the auxiliary switch and the lift lever are operable by the same operator's hand. The controller is adapted to control the tilting and lifting mechanisms based on signals from the tilting and lifting operation detectors and the auxiliary switch. When the auxiliary switch is in operative position and the lifting operation detector detects that the lift lever is in operative position, the controller controls the tilting mechanism so as to tilt the fork to have a predetermined tilt angle based on a signal from the tilt angle detector.

Abstract: A stacking crane moving along a first horizontal direction is disclosed. The stacking crane includes a lifting assembly, a rotating assembly, an extendable assembly, and a fork. The lifting assembly controls the extendable assembly and the fork to move along a vertical direction and the rotating assembly rotates the extendable assembly and the fork along a horizontal surface so that the extendable assembly controls the fork to move at least along the first horizontal direction and along a second horizontal direction to access objects. In addition, a stacking crane system including two stacking cranes is disclosed. The stacking cranes may transfer the objects to each other directly.

Abstract: An unloading vehicle for the rotary unloading of a container, able to be covered by a fixed cover, which has a container base with two fork pockets, with a frame on which a carrier, provided with a pair of fork prongs, is mounted so as to be rotatable about an axis running horizontally and parallel to the fork prongs. In order to be able to handle not only the container but also its cover by an unloading vehicle, a further carrier is provided above the rotatably arranged carrier, which is provided with a receiving arrangement for taking hold of the cover of the container, and is vertically adjustable and/or able to be swiveled up and down with respect to the framed.

Abstract: In the figures there is provided a bin handling apparatus comprising a trailer (10) having a pair of spaced chassis members (14) defining a rear-opening space. A hoist assembly (16) includes spaced support beams (17) pivoted at pivots (20). The forward ends of the support beams (17) are interconnected and support a hoist tower (22) having a lift chain moving a tine carriage (24) from which is cantilevered a pair of spaced lifting tines (26). A tipping ram (27) serves to rotate the hoist assembly (16) about the pivots (20). A headstock (30) on the hoist tower (22) has apertured bin engaging lugs. An open-topped bin assembly (31) has a movable wall (35) hinged to the upper, rear edge and forming a closure which can be locked in the closed position by latches. The front wall of the bin has engagement lugs (37) with apertures adapted to align with the apertures in the bin engaging lugs, and be retained by an elongate steel pin (40).

Abstract: A lift that is configured to securely lift, carry and deposit a control unit using three degrees of movement. The lift comprises a chassis having a support frame and a power source connected to the support frame. A pivot member rotatably connects to the support frame, wherein the pivot member has a pivot plate and a rod rotatably connected to the pivot plate. A lift frame connects to the rod of the pivot plate, wherein a lift arm rotatably connects to the lift frame. The lift further comprises a pressurized fluid drive operatively connected to the power source and operatively connected to the pivot plate, the lift frame and the lift arm. The fluid drive is configured to reciprocally move the pivot plate, the lift frame and the lift arm such that the lift arm moves in three degrees of movement with respect to the chassis.

Abstract: A forward-control counterweight fork-lift truck has a liftable and tiltable load-lifting device (1), a traction drive and operating drives for the movement of the load-lifting device (1). A calculation model (D) is stored in a control device (SE), to which directly or indirectly acting sensors (S) are connected for detecting the lifting load (L), the lifting height (H), the tilting angle (WM), the load torque (M), the direction of travel (R), the driving speed (V), and the steering angle (WL). The control device (SE) is designed to determine a driving and load state (Z) based on the detected physical variables (L, H, WM, M, R, V, WL) and the stored calculation model (D) and is operatively connected to the traction drive and the operating drives. Depending on the driving and load state (Z) determined, the operating speed, starting and braking acceleration, and driving speed are each reduced.

Abstract: A transportable device, such as a cart, for transporting and elevating an imaging media cartridge into a press printer may include a base platform, first and second elevation members disposed thereon, a panel disposed between the first and second elevation members, and first and second elevator platforms. The panel may include a pair of opposite vertical faces along which the elevator platforms slide to mutually exchange elevations by vertically sliding the platforms in opposite directions. The device may be used for a method of transporting and elevating an imaging media cartridge into a press printer at an installation height above a floor. Additionally, the device may be used for a method of removing and storing an imaging media cartridge from a press printer at an installation height above the floor.

Abstract: A mast apparatus that includes a cross member assembly that permits an operator to see through portions of the assembly is provided. The cross member assembly includes upper and lower horizontal members that are slanted for general alignment with the line of sight of the operator. Moreover, some vertical stiffener members are removed thereby allowing a line of sight between the upper and lower horizontal members. To maintain structural strength, vertical stiffener members are added in the center portion and at the location of couplers or mounts for attachment to the lift hydraulic jacks.

Abstract: A fork lift truck is provided having a vehicle frame (1) and a lifting mechanism (6). An axle body (3) of a front axle of the fork lift truck is fastened to the vehicle frame (1) by at least one elastic bearing. The lifting mechanism (6) is connected with the axle body (3) by a non-elastic bearing or by a rigid connecting element. The elastic bearing is configured such that a relative movement that takes place in the event of a tilting of the lifting mechanism (6) between the axle body (3) and the vehicle frame (1) can be equalized by the elastic bearing.

Abstract: A hydraulic device for a forklift is disclosed. The forklift includes a tilting mast and a fork supported by the mast so that the fork is lifted and lowered. A tilt cylinder operates to tilt the mast by means of oil supplied by a tilt valve. A restricting valve is arranged in an oil passage connecting the tilt cylinder with the tilt valve. When the mast is tilted with the fork carrying an object and located higher than a predetermined reference position, the restricting valve closes the oil passage so that the angle of the tilting mast is limited. A check valve is arranged between the tilt cylinder and the restricting valve. The check valve blocks oil flow from the tilt cylinder to the restricting valve so that the position of the mast is maintained. This prevents unintentional movement of the mast.

Abstract: A tractor-mounted forklift comprising a first frame having its rearward end secured to the underside of the tractor and having its forward end secured to the forward end of the tractor about a longitudinally extending pivot axis. A second frame is pivotally secured, about a transverse axis, to the forward end of the first frame and has a pair of ground-engaging wheels mounted at the opposite sides thereof. A hydraulic cylinder is pivotally connected to and extends between the first and second frames to pivot the second frame upwardly and downwardly with respect to the first frame. A materials handling attachment, such as a bale grapple, is mounted on a vertically movable lift which is secured to the forward end of the second frame.

Abstract: A new and improved transport apparatus which can be used to transport a load between different level surfaces according to a novel method of use of the present invention. The transport apparatus includes an undercarriage including a front and rear trucks having an elongated upright track assembly mounted therebetween for defining a predetermined path of travel that a load will follow as it is moved between a ground level position and an upper load destination position substantially above the ground. A load carriage unit mounted movably to the upright track assembly is coupled to a motor adapted to move the load reciprocatively rectilinearly along the predetermined path of travel. The front and rear truck construction facilitates transportation over a variety of terrain. Substantially, the trucks and upright track assembly are coupled together in a set of triangular arrangements that form a rigid, stable, load moving construction.

Abstract: A self-propelled, counterbalanced, container transporter vehicle having a frame, a counterweight supported at the rear, an elevating upright, carriage pick-up and lift frame assembly for lifting, transporting and stacking containers in which a tower structure supports a cab providing an operator's station with controls for hydraulically raising and lowering the upright, the cab has a wide angle front window area that partially wraps around the operator's station to permit a horizontal line of sight to the maximum extension of the lift frame and is sloped back to afford high angle vision to the maximum vertical extension of the upright for high stacking containers.

Abstract: This invention relates to a hydrostatic axle for a lift truck comprising a frame, two displacement members coupled to motors and a mast for handling mounted to pivot with respect to said frame, this axle comprising two drive assemblies, right- and left-hand, each comprising a hydrostatic motor and a brake and being coupled to one of said displacement members. According to the invention, a) each of the motors is a slow motor coupled to the corresponding displacement member without the interposition of a speed reducer; b) the two motors and the two brakes are contained in a single resistant beam fixed on the frame of the list truck; and c) the handling mast is pivitally mounted on said beam via at least two pivot bearings. One application of the invetion is the economical production of a resistant lift truck.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting load units comprising: a drive system carrier for lifting the load unit; a single essentially vertically extending lifting element operatively associated with the drive system carrier; a lifting platform supported by the lifting element; and at least two variable length supporting elements provided between the drive system carrier and the lifting element so as to displace the lifting platform transverse to the lifting direction.

Abstract: The wheeled frame remaining after removal of the detachable cargo container, is gripped by clamping mechanism of a carrying unit mounted on a tractor or lift truck, then elevated above the ground and pivoted from its normal horizontal disposition to vertical position, and then transported to a multiple storage unit where it is deposited and retained in the vertical position removably in one of a plurality of compartments making up the storage unit. A plurality of such wheeled frames may be stored in this manner by deposit in successive ones of the compartments, and they are removed from the compartment in the reverse order of deposit.

Abstract: A cargo container handling assembly mounted on the lift beam of a mobile vehicle to transport and stack a cargo container. A bridge secured to the lift means accommodates a pair of vertically movable supports. Struts carried by the supports have balls on their upper and lower ends for movably supporting a carrier adapted to be locked onto a cargo container. Fluid operated cylinders are selectively operable to provide the carrier with tilt, skew, lateral shift, and fore and aft movements. Fluid motors are operable to selectively raise and lower the supports to change the elevation of the spreader independent of the lift beam and provide the carrier with pile slope movements.

Abstract: Use of a laterally-shiftable C-shaped frame which supports an auxiliary mast above its upper and lower extremities allows a lift truck to handle wider loads in a given aisle width, and decreases bending moments and inertial forces.

Abstract: A control system for directing hydraulic fluid to selected cylinders on a lift truck to perform selective ones of a plurality of power truck functions, such as raising and lowering the lift forks on the truck mast, tilting the lift forks with respect to the truck mast, and extending the lift forks away from the truck mast, includes a control lever mounted on the truck control panel, having upper and lower control positions and a neutral position therebetween. A function control switch includes a manually actuatable switch button on the controlled lever. A counter means is responsive to the function control switch to cycle sequentially through a plurality of count states from an initial count state in response to actuation of the function control switch means.

Abstract: Paired, laterally opposed generally vertical poles mounted at their lower ends to a towing vehicle horizontal frame and pivotable about a horizontal axis, bear a carriage which extends between the poles and is mounted on rollers for vertical movement on the poles. A hitch-ball carrier extends from the carriage for coupling to the end of the mobile home. Paired hydraulic cylinders pivotably mounted to the frame at their lower ends pivot about a horizontal axis parallel to and generally at the same vertical height as the horizontal pivot axis for the poles, have their upper ends, which are extendable, pivotably connected to the carriage. Paired telescoping beam assemblies are pivotably coupled at one end to the horizontal frame at a point spaced some distance from the pivot mountings of the paired vertical poles and are pivotably coupled at their other end to the upper ends of the laterally opposed vertical poles.