MODULAR STRUCTURE TRANSPORTING APPARATUS

• US 3,786,951 A
• Filed: 11/01/1971
• Issued: 01/22/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jerome C. Schnur, Paul H. Ruff
• Original Assignee: Jerome C. Schnur, Paul H. Ruff
• Inventors: Ruff, Paul H., Schnur, Jerome C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheridan, Robert G.
• Application Number:
  US05/194,634
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 214/38B,38BA,38CC,512,515 280/43.17,43.23
• US Class Current: 414/495
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/02 with parallel up-and-down movement of load supporting or containing element in combination with tipping B60P1/34; devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes, movable on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F9/06 ; suspensions with electronic levelling control during loading or unloading B60G17/0157

Abstract

A trailer for transporting modular building structures from a point of assembly or storage to a point of permanent installation. The same includes an elongated frame having sufficient strength to receive and support a modular building structure and a wheeled carriage secured to the underside of the frame for vertical movement relative to the frame so that the height of the frame above the terrain over which it may travel may be varied. The frame also mounts a plurality of pairs of jacks with one jack on each pair adapted to engage the underlying terrain to raise or level the frame relative thereto and the other jack in the pair adapted to move an element upwardly to engage the underside of a modular building structure. Each pair of jacks is pivotally mounted of the frame for movement between the above operative position and traveling position and the arrangement is such that the weight of one jack generally counterbalances the other of the pair so that the same may be easily manipulated.

Claims

1. Modular building structure transporting apparatus comprising:

means defining an elongated frame of sufficient strength to receive and support a modular building structure;

a plurality of wheels carried by said frame;

a plurality of first jacks located at spaced locations about the periphery of the frame and including ground engaging elements so that, when operated, the same can level the frame over varied terrain and raise the frame relative to the underlying terrain;

a plurality of second jacks mounted on said frame at a plurality of spaced locations thereon and including modular building structure engaging means movable upwardly from the frame when said second jacks are operated to engage the undersurface of a modular building structure, said first and second jacks being paired;

means pivotally mounting each pair of jacks to said frame for movement between A first, operative position and a second, inoperative traveling position, including a pivotally mounted member connected to each jack of a pair intermediate the ends of each jack to have the pair of jacks effectively counterbalance each other about the povotal mounting whereby each pair of jacks may be easily pivoted between said first and second positions.

2. The modular building structure transporting apparatus of claim 1 wherein said modular building structure engaging means include elongated members separable from the second jacks and nestably received by said frame and said second jacks are positioned beneath said elongated members and movable between a traveling position remote from the elongated members and a position wherein the second jacks may engage the enlongated members to move the same upwardly into engagement with the undersurface of a modular building structure.

3. Modular building structure transporting apparatus comprising:

means defining an elongated frame of sufficient strength to receive and support a modular building structure;

a wheeled carriage below said frame, said carriage being movably connected to said frame whereby the vertical position of the wheels with respect to the frame may be varied;

means for holding said carriage in a desired position relative to said frame;

a plurality of first jack means located at spaced locations about the periphery of said frame, said jack means including ground engaging elements so that said jack means, when operated, can level said frame over varied terrain and raise said frame relative to the underlying terrain; and

a plurality of second jack means mounted on said frame at a plurality of spaced locations thereon, said second jack means including modular building structure engaging means movable upwardly from said frame means when said second jack means are operated to engage the undersurface of a modular building structure, said modular building structure engaging means including elongated members nestably received by said frame and said second jack means are pivotally secured to said frame beneath said elongated members and movable between a traveling position and a position wherein the jack means may engage the elongated member to move the same upwardly into engagement with the undersurface of a modular building structure.