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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7000965 | Tank lifting apparatus A tank lifting attachment (10) is disclosed for allowing a tank, such as a wine press tank (12) to be lifted by a conventional lifting device (100) such as a crane or block and tackle. A center section (16) has a pair of inside grip plate... | 02/21/2006 |
| 5997064 | Article gripping apparatus An article gripping apparatus capable of gripping the articles with adequate gripping pressure without damaging or dropping the gripped articles is disclosed. The apparatus comprises paired clamp arms 7 opposedly arranged free to open and close; a plurali... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5382067 | SDE latch interconnect apparatus and method for transporting a container An arrangement for coupling hoisting equipment with containers, and particularly to a side latch interconnect apparatus and method for expediting the interaction of hoisting equipment with containers and making such equipment more reliable. The arrangemen... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5230599 | Trailer chassis handling apparatus A rotator including a base frame for being attached to a lift mechanism; a rotating frame; a first latch member attached to the rotating frame; a second latch member attached to the rotating frame a spaced distance from the first latch member for coacting... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5096245 | Package palletizing system A package palletizing system is systematized such that it comprises a winder, an inspection station for inspecting cone packages wound up by the winder, and a palletizing station for palletizing the cone packages after inspection in alternately opposite p... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4968212 | Apparatus for gripping and lifting objects positioned in rows An apparatus for gripping and lifting closely packaged objects formed in rows and adjacent one another having a main horizontal beam, end gripper units adjustable through power means and self-positioning cross gripper units intermediate the end grippers. ... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4946328 | Swinging-link rotary loaders These loaders for transfer of cargo containers or semitrailers to and from railway cars etc. have parallel swinging links vertically connecting the load-spreader support end of the lift arm with the end of the arm which is mounted to a pivot. The links ar... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4799724 | Gripping device The invention relates to a gripping device for supporting caps or the like supporting tops superimposed on the free upper end of concrete mouldings, such as concrete socket-pipes, standing upright. In order to be able to remove the supporting caps, even w... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4621852 | Inching apparatus for robot hands An inching apparatus for robot hands in which a travelling member with a pair of scrapers are threadedly engaged with a threaded rod rotated by a rotational shaft of a rotary actuator mounted on the robot so that said travelling members may be moved forwa... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4547109 | Drill pipe handling and placement apparatus A cylindrical goods lifting and placement apparatus comprises a platform, an angularly disposable frame pivotably connected to the platform and having a drill pipe holding system for holding a length of drill pipe. An angularly displaceable member is pivo... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4496182 | Gripper system for load transport A load pick up system is provided or picking up for, respectively, delivering and storing of formed articles such as profile girders at low time consumption and at minimal use of the storage space available for the materials to be stored. A traverse is co... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4453873 | Automatic supporting plate loader A loader for automatically supplying printed circuit supporting plates to a laminator where, above the stack of supporting plates, is provided a support moving to and fro in vertical direction relative to the plate stack, with the said support being fitte... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4360110 | Positive grip lifting mechanism A tong 200 for use in lifting articles such as aluminum or steel ingots and the like comprising an elongated leg member 210, a pivot member 212 fixedly attached to and depending from leg 210, said pivot member having an upper portion and a lower portion 2... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4303270 | Self-centering clamp A self centering clamp for down-hole tubulars includes first and second opposed clamping members guided along a clamping axis by first and second guide channels defined by a frame. Each clamping member defines a hydraulic cylinder in which is disposed a p... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4035010 | Device for gripping and lifting T-shaped structural member The present invention discloses a device for gripping and lifting large-sized T-shaped structural members (to be referred to as the "T structural member" for brevity in this specification) each consisting of a face plate and a web plate. The T structural ... | 07/12/1977 |
