Equipment for handling freight containers

• US 3,206,053 A
• Filed: 04/15/1964
• Issued: 09/14/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John Bridge
• Original Assignee: John Bridge
• Inventors: Bridge, John
• Application Number:
  US04/362,551
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• US Class Current: 414/499
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/6427 the load-transporting element being shifted horizontally in a fore and aft direction, combined or not with a vertical displacement

Claims

1. AN APPARATUS FOR USE WITH A FREIGHT CONTAINER HAVING A BOTTOM WALL FORMED WITH FIRST SOCKET MEANS AT ONE END THEREOF AND SECOND SOCKET MEANS AT THE OTHER END THEREOF COMPRISING, A SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING SAID CONTAINER WITH SAID ONE AND THE SAID OTHER ENDS OF THE LATTER OVERLYING CORRESPONDINGLY LONGITUDINALLY SPACED APART FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS OF SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, CARRIER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORTINT STRUCTURE FOR LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS OF SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, SAID CARRIER MEANS HAVING FIRST DOME MEANS FOR ENGAGING SAID FIRST SOCKET MEANS OF SAID BOTTOM WALL OF SAID CONTAINER, LOCK MEANS ROTATABLY MOUNTED AT SAID SECOND PORTION OF SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE TO OPERATIVE AND INOPERATIVE POSITIONS, SAID LOCK MEANS HAVING SECOND DOME MEANSENGAGEABLE IN THE OPERATIVE POSITION THEREOF WITH SAID SECOND SOCKET MEANS OF SAID BOTTOM WALL OF SAID CONTAINER IN THE SUPPORTED POSITION OF THE LATTER ON SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND DOME MEANS IN THEIR ENGAGED POSITIONS WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND SOCKET MEANS OF SAID BOTTOM WALL OF SAID CONTAINER PREVENTING FORE AND AFT AND TRANSVERSE MOVEMENTS OF SAID CONTAINER RELATIVE TO SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, AND SAID CARRIER MEANS AND SAID CONTAINER IN THE INOPERATIVE POSITION OF SAID LOCK MEANS BEING MOVABLE LONGITUDINALLY RELATIVE TO SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE.