Lift weighing

• US 5,209,313 A
• Filed: 03/28/1991
• Issued: 05/11/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Teledyne Monitor Labs, Inc. (Teledyne Technologies Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Teledyne Industries Incorporated (Teledyne Technologies Incorporated)
• Inventors: Brodrick, Ronald F., Masson, Roger W.
• Primary Examiner(s): MILLER JR, GEORGE
• Application Number:
  US07/676,814
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 177/139, 177/145-147
• US Class Current: 177/139
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2003/022 the discharging means comprising a device for determining the weight of the content of refuse receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 2003/0279 the discharging means mounted at the front of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/083 lift truck scale
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 3/1402 Special supports with preselected places to mount the resistance strain gauges; Mounting of supports

Abstract

Lift weighing arrangements in which arms to lift supports carry strain gauges.

Claims

1. Lift mechanism comprising:

mass support means,

vehicle means,

arm means interconnecting said mass support means and said vehicle means for relative movement therebetween,

said arm means comprising a pair of arms, each said arm being pivotally mounted about a pivot axis, and

two pairs of strain gauges on each said arm,

a first pair being nearer to and a second pair being farther from said mass support means,

said pivot axis being farther from said mass support means than said second pair of strain gauges,

in which said arms are parallel, and have the general configuration of an upside-down U.

2. The combination of claim 1 in which the distance vertically between a said pair h is negative.

3. The combination of claim 1 in which said strain gauges are connected in a Wheatstone bridge, subtractively of the output of the pair nearer said mass support means from the output of the other pair.

4. The combination of claims 1 or 3 in which said two pairs are correspondingly connected in a pair of Wheatstone bridges, the outputs of said pair of Wheatstone bridges being connected in parallel.

5. The combination of claim 1 in which said arm means carries a clinometer.

6. The combination of claim 1 in which said pairs of strain gauges are carried by generally vertically extending arms of said arm means.

7. The combination of claim 1 in which h is negative.