Hydraulic weigher with stabilizing rods for use on truck

• US 3,306,384 A
• Filed: 06/07/1966
• Issued: 02/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Victor Ross
• Original Assignee: Victor Ross
• Inventors: VICTOR ROSS
• Application Number:
  US04/555,849
• Time in Patent Office: 266 Days
• US Class Current: 177/141
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/10 having fluid weight-sensitive devices

Claims

1. IN A TRUCK HAVING A CHASSIS AND A LOAD-CARRYING BOX, A SYSTEM FOR GIVING INDICATION OF THE WEIGHT OF THE LOAD CARRIED IN THE BOX, SAID WEIGHING SYSTEM COMPRISING LOAD SENSING DEVICES DISPOSED BETWEEN THE CHASSIS AND THE BOX AND SUPPORTING THE LATTER, LOAD TOTALIZING AND INDICATING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID LOAD SENSING DEVICES, AND MEANS FOR PREVENTING RELATIVE LATERAL MOVEMENT OF SAID BOX WITH RESPECT TO SAID CHASSIS, WHILE ALLOWING FREE VERTICAL RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID BOX AND SAID CHASSIS, SAID LAST-NAMED MEANS COMPRISING SPACED PAIRS OF TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING CROSSED RODS ARRANGED IN SPACED SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP, ONE END OF ONE ROD OF EACH PAIR PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE CHASSIS AND THE OTHER END OF THE SAME ROD OF EACH PAIR PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE LOAD CARRYING BOX, OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE OTHER ROD OF EACH PAIR BEING PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE LOAD CARRYING BOX STRUCTURE AND TO THE CHASSIS RESPECTIVELY.