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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4328494 | Digital data link for truck weighing applications An apparatus for communicating a vehicle parameter to a location remote and apart from where the vehicle parameter is measured is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a sensor responsive to the parameter being measured, with the sensor producing an output a... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4312042 | Weight, balance, and tire pressure detection systems A weight and balance system for an aircraft or the like which measures the bend in a structural member of the aircraft, such as a landing gear element or a wing or fuselage section, by use of inclinometers mounted to the member and each having a signal ou... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4287958 | Vehicle suspension with flexible transversal beam A load-monitoring vehicle suspension including a pair of wheel assemblies carried adjacent the opposite ends of a flexible transversal beam which supports the bed in the vehicle. This beam extends transversely of the bed's longitudinal axis, and supports ... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4280363 | System for measurement of force with directionally orientated strain gauges A measuring shaft intended to be fixed in a hole is equipped with strain gauges or similar devices for sensing a load. The inner end of the measuring shaft is threaded to engage with threads provided in the bottom of the hole, and the outer end of the mea... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4249623 | Load cell for on-board weighing systems An improved load cell for logging trucks or similar vehicles. The load cell is principally formed by a single cast or machines resilient beam including a relatively flat central portion connected to a pair of end portions through respective relatively thi... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4239253 | Body extender A vehicle body extender having a frame, at least one housing supported by the frame, the frame resiliently attached to an axle by a spring, wheels rotatably mounted at each end of the axle, the frame comprising of at least two frame members longitudinally... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4225926 | Apparatus for loading and unloading an aircraft and ascertaining the weight of the load The present apparatus is used for ascertaining the individual weight of any type of load including that of passengers and of hand baggage, that is added to the total payload of an aircraft. Each individual weight is ascertained and, if desired, displayed ... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4206506 | Foliage control system A system for weighing and placing stacked foliage in inventory and for, thereafter, precisely determining and feeding a metered or controlled amount of foliage material from inventory on a stack-by-stack basis. A foliage stacking machine is used to stack,... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4189708 | Method and apparatus for controlling access to a facility The system denies unauthorized access to a locked facility by a person having a weight characteristic differing from that of the weight characteristic of the person locking a facility such as an automotive ignition system. The system comprises a method an... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4148369 | Vehicle weighing system transducer A transducer for measuring the load of a vehicle employing an equalizing beam suspension. In an equalizing beam suspension a pair of tandem wheels are supported by opposite ends of a pair of transversely spaced, center-mounted equalizing beams. Each equal... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4123933 | Method for measuring axle deflection A method for sensing a change in deflection of an axle due to load is provided by attaching a deflection sensing device at a specific longitudinal location along the axle at which the bending moment is not affected by a stop member contacting the axle. Th... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4108262 | Vehicle load count-down system A load-monitoring system in a vehicle, which system enables a person located remote from the vehicle, such as the person performing a loading operation, to follow and be aware of the decreasing load-carrying capacity of the vehicle as added load thereon a... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4095660 | Roller A roller-type apparatus for indicating a charge or load on a fixed axle comprises a roller rotatably mounted to the fixed axle, the charge or load being arranged to act on the peripheral surface of the roller. The axle is fixed at two spaced apart positio... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4095659 | Deflection-restrained load cell for on-board vehicle weighing systems A problem that is often encountered under uneven terrain conditions with on-board load weighing systems for vehicles, such as logging trucks, having a frame member and a load support member to which a load which is to be measured is applied, is that struc... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4020911 | Load cell scale Several load cell fixed beams transmit the weight of the useful load of a truck or a scale device from the useful load support to the base structure, such as a truck chassis, or a trailer chassis. The load cell fixed beam carries two compression sensitive... | 05/03/1977 |
| 3990032 | Vehicle weighing system The vehicle weighing system for a towed vehicle includes removable stub axles and a hitch rigidly connected to a load support. The hitch and one or more of the stub axles are gauged in an identical manner. Two active electrical strain gauges are placed in... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3971451 | Method and apparatus for indicating a load placed on a load-carrying vehicle platform This invention relates to a platform which can be displaced relatively to the frame side members of a load-carrying vehicle and which in the unloaded state is situated at the theoretical center of gravity of the vehicle load. A load placed on the platform... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3966002 | Portable vehicle scales Portable vehicle scales are described for weighing vehicle loads. The scales are low profile with a ground-engaging base. A wheel support platform is spring-supported on the base for supporting the applied wheel load. A plurality of calibrated springs sup... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3960228 | Shear beam load cell A load cell for use with a carrier which receives a load to be weighed. The carrier applies a force to a beam of the load cell along a load-measuring direction and the beam includes electronic transducer means for sensing such force. The beam is provided ... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3935915 | Weighing device A wheeled vehicle includes a wheel carrying axle upon which the weight of the vehicle and its load is carried through the intermediary of a spring. The spring is coupled to the axle by means of a mounting unit which includes a pair of spaced mounting plat... | 02/03/1976 |
