Portable conveyor system

• US 3,184,045 A
• Filed: 03/22/1963
• Issued: 05/18/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edwin L. Fry
• Original Assignee: Edwin L. Fry
• Inventors: Fry, Edwin L.
• Application Number:
  US04/267,279
• Time in Patent Office: 788 Days
• US Class Current: 198/316.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/38 forming the main load-transporting element or part thereof B60P1/365 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/324 Luggage loaders specially adapted for loading individual luggage items into or out of the aircraft

Claims

1. A PORTABLE ELEVATING CONVEYOR COMPRISING IN COMBINATION WITH A MOTORIZED SELF-PROPELLED VEHICLE;

(A) AN END-SUPPORT BRACKET MEANS AT EACH END OF THE VEHICLE AND AN INTERMEDIATE-SUPPORT BRACKET MEANS UPON THE BODY OF THE VEHICLE;

(B) AN ELONGATED CONVEYOR SECTION ADAPTED TO BE LONGITUDINALLY DISPOSED ABOVE THE VEHICLE WITH EACH END OF THE SECTION OVERLYING AN END OF THE VEHICLE;

(C) AN EXTENDIBLE ELEVATOR MEANS AT EACH END OF THE VEHICLE, WITH THE BASE OF EACH ELEVATOR MEANS BEING PIVOTALLY MOUNTED UPON AN END-SUPPORT BRACKET MEANS TO GENERALLY UPSTAND FROM THE END OF THE VEHICLE AND WITH THE EXTENDED END OF EACH ELEVATOR MEANS BEING POVITALLY CONNECTED TO THE END PORTION OF THE CONVEYOR SECTION THEREABOVE TO THEREBY RAISE AND LOWER THAT END OF THE CONVEYOR SECTION;

AND, (D) A STABILIZER BAR HAVING A BASE END PIVOTALLY MOUNTED UPON THE INTERMEDIATE-SUPPORT BRACKET MEANS ON THE VEHICLE TO EXTEND GENERALLY LONGITUDINALLY UNDERNEATH THE CONVEYOR FRAME AND HAVING AN EXTENDED END PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE CONVEYOR-FRAME, ELEVATOR-MEANS COMBINATION AT A LOCATION WHICH IS LONGITUDINALLY OFFSET A SUBSTANTIAL REACH FROM THE POINT OF CONNECTION AT THE INTERMEDIATE-SUPPORT BRACKET MEANS, WHEREBY TO INCLINE THE STABILIZER BAR MORE GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY THAN VERTICALLY AND TO MINIMIZE THE LONGITUDINAL SHIFT OF THE CONVEYOR SECTION WITH RESPECT TO THE VEHICLE AS IT IS RAISED AND LOWERED BY THE ELEVATOR MEANS.