Movable auger rack

• US 3,895,726 A
• Filed: 03/20/1973
• Issued: 07/22/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles L. Rassieur
• Original Assignee: Charles L. Rassieur
• Inventors: Rassieur, Charles L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Makay, Albert J.
• Application Number:
  US05/342,955
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• Field of Search: 214/83.24 296/3-9,26,37,37.2 211/6R,94.5,162 224/42.35,42.06,42.05,42.44
• US Class Current: 414/522
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/00 Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects ambulances or other vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G3/00; hearses A61G21/00; fire-fighting land vehicles A62C27/00; refuse-collecting vehicles B65F3/00, B65F7/00; snow-removing vehicles E01H; armoured or armed vehicles F41H7/00; self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles F41H11/16
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 19/15 Racking of rods in horizontal position; Handling between horizontal and vertical position
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 7/005 with helical conveying means E21B7/201 takes precedence; augers E21B10/44; drilling rods or pipes with helical structure E21B17/22

Abstract

A truck body adapted for drilling has a movable auger rack mounted beneath the bed of the truck. A worker can lift an end of an auger vertically without reaching, since the augers in the rack may be moved outboard of the truck bed. The rack is operatively connected to drive means, preferably of a hydraulic variety. The rack is a skeleton structure adapted for carrying drilling augers and especially hollow stem augers. A pair of parallel tracks traverse the major axis of the truck bed on the undercarriage side of the bed. A dolly structure is mounted on rollers. The rollers ride in and are held by the track. The rack is attached to the dolly structure. The dolly structure carries the entire weight of the rack, cantilever fashion, in all positions defined by rack movement. Those positions include at least a first position where the rack is concealed beneath the truck bed and a second position where the rack is extended outwardly of the truck bed.

Claims

1. A truck vehicle for carrying drilling augers including a bed for bearing equipment, said bed having a longitudinal axis comprising:

an undercarriage supporting said bed, said undercarriage including a main truck beam traversing said bed longitudinally, said truck beam being spaced from said bed;

means for carrying a plurality of drilling augers beneath said bed, at least a portion of said carrying means being mounted for movement with respect to said vehicle, said carrying means comprising shim means mounted to said truck beam and positioned above said truck beam, between said truck beam and said truck bed;

spacer means abutting said shim means and positioned above said shim means between said shim means and said truck bed, a track mounted to said vehicle for confining movement of a dolly structure, said track being positioned generally athwart of said longitudinal track vehicle axis, between said spacer means and said truck bed;

a dolly structure mounted for movement along said track in a direction generally athwart of said longitudinal truck vehicle axis between at least a first position and a second position, a rack for holding said drilling augers mounted cantilever fashion to said dolly structure and movable with said dolly structure between said first and said second positions, said rack being outboard of said bed in said first position and substantially beneath said bed in said second position, said rack including means for supporting said drilling augers along at least two points and side wall means for permitting stacking of said augers in said rack; and

means for moving said dolly structure between said first and second positions.

2. The vehicle of claim 1 further characterized by movable means for interconnecting said dolly structure with said track, said track comprising first and second sections parallel to but spaced from another, said dolly structure being mounted between said first and said second sections.

3. The vehicle of claim 2 wherein said movable means comprises a plurality of rollers interconnected between said track and said dolly structure.

4. The vehicle of claim 3 wherein said rack is a skeleton structure constructed from a plurality of U-shaped members spaced from one another to define an auger carrying compartment, the connecting part of said U-shaped member supportiNg said augers, and the legs of said U-shaped members comprising said side wall means.

5. The vehicle of claim 4 wherein said means for moving said dolly structure comprises a hydraulic cylinder mounted perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of said bed, said cylinder being operatively connected to said dolly structure.

6. The vehicle of claim 5 wherein said hydraulic cylinder is positioned midway between said track sections.