Dock plate

• US 3,184,773 A
• Filed: 09/07/1961
• Issued: 05/25/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Warren R. Breneman
• Original Assignee: Warren R. Breneman
• Inventors: Breneman, Warren R.
• Application Number:
  US04/136,658
• Time in Patent Office: 1,356 Days
• US Class Current: 14/69.5
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 69/30 Non-permanently installed loading ramps, e.g. transportable

Claims

1. IN A DOCK PLATE, COMPRISING, AN ELONGATED BASE MEMBER HAVING A TOP AND A BOTTOM SURFACE A DOWNWARDLY ANGLED BEND IN SAID BASE MEMBER ALONG A BEND LINE DISPOSED IN SPACED RELATION TO THE ENDS OF SAID BASE MEMBER AND DEFINING A PLATE SECTION ON OPPOSITE SIDES ON SAID BEND LINE, EACH OF SAID SECTIONS BEING FLAT THROUGHOUT THEIR SUBSTANTIAL LENGTH, ONE OF SAID SECTIONS HAVING REINFORCING MEANS, A PLURALITY OF TRANSVERSELY SPACED APART LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING ELONGATED CHANNEL-SHAPED MEMBERS HAVING SIDE WALLS WITH THEIR OUTER LONGITUDINAL EDGES FIXEDLY SECURED TO THE BOTTOM SURFACE OF SAID OTHER SECTION, SAID CHANNEL MEMBERS EACH HAVING ONE END TERMINATING ADJACENT SAID BEND LINE IN SAID BASE MEMBER, SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS EXTENDING IN SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL RELATION TO ADJACENT THE END OF SAID BASE MEMBER OPPOSITE SAID ONE SECTION, SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS HAVING A WIDTH UNIFORMLY INCREASING ALONG ITS LENGTH BEGINNING WITH SAID ONE END, AND SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS UNIFORMLY DECREASING IN THICKNESS ALONG ITS LENGTH MEASURED ALONG A VERTICAL PLANE BEGINNING WITH SAID ONE END.