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Automated guided vehicle top disposed towing apparatus

  • US 5,109,940 A
  • Filed: 03/05/1991
  • Issued: 05/05/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In combination, a trailer and an unmanned automated guided vehicle:

  • the vehicle comprising a main body having a front portion, a rear portion, opposed side portions, and a top surface, remotely controlled steering means, a pair of front floor engaging wheels disposed along respective sides of the vehicle, a pair of rear floor engaging wheels disposed along respective sides of the vehicle, individual means for bidirectionally driving each of said floor-engaging wheels, a mounting plate attached to said top surface, and hitch means attached to said plate in a centrally disposed location between said side portions and said front and rear pairs of wheels;

    the trailer comprising two bar means which comprise means for releasibly coupling to said centrally disposed hitch means;

    the centrally disposed hitch means being rotatably connected to said releasible coupling means for movement about a vertical axis extending through said hitch means;

    whereby, responsive to the remotely controlled steering means, rotational movement of 360 degrees of the vehicle about said vertical axis without displacement of said trailer is possible as a result of selective directional driving of each of said wheels.

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