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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7993094 | Lift truck A lift truck includes a guide member secured to a mast of the lift truck and a guided member secured to a carriage vertically movable along the mast. The guided member engages with the guide member to resist twisting moments acting on the carriage and enable the car... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7901175 | Load arm for a low lift industrial truck A load arm for a fork of a low lift industrial truck, with an arm frame which is approximately U- or C-shaped in cross section with upward pointing bridge and downward pointing legs and an arm tip, which is connected to the arm frame via a welding connection, wherei... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7544037 | Pallet clamping device A pallet clamping device is mounted between forks of a material handling vehicle. The device clamps to a stringer of a pallet using a pair of horizontally moveable jaws. The jaws are resiliently forced toward one another for clamping a stringer so that a clamped pal... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7448842 | Industrial truck having a pallet gripper The present invention relates to an industrial truck (10) having a load-receiving device (14) for the purpose of receiving a load (34), said load-receiving device (14) having a clamping device (23) in order to hold a clamping regio... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7435047 | Fork-lift loading system with roller driven loading and support surface The invention relates to a loading platform (2,3) for displacing goods, comprising a support frame for goods (8) and at least one double roller device (7,9) arranged in longitudinal direction, wherein the double roller device comprises a number ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7427075 | Steering device for pallet truck A steering device for decreasing a turning radius of a pallet jack includes a ground engaging member connected to a support member of the pallet jack between a main wheel and an extensible wheel. The load supporting member of the pallet jack is positionable between ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7407038 | Lifting framework for an industrial truck A lifting framework for an industrial truck has an extendible mast guided on a guide mast by rollers. Means are provided for bracing the extendible mast with the guide mast so as to prevent the extendible mast from inclining in the lateral direction of the lifting f... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7308972 | Suspended load carrier apparatus for a forklift vehicle A fabricated metal carrier apparatus includes a carrier member having downwardly facing parallel spaced channels for receiving the forwardly projecting parallel forks of a forklift truck or vehicle. The carrier member has a rotatable vertical shaft located between t... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7287625 | Forklift safety sensor and control system A forklift safety sensor and control system for preventing unsafe wear on the bottom surface of the fork. A fork height sensor detects when the fork is below a predefined threshold height at which the bottom surface is in close proximity to the ground or is in conta... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7246685 | Forklift guard A guard for use with a forklift including a carriage and at least one fork coupled to the carriage. The guard includes a first member configured to be coupled to the carriage, a second member configured to be coupled to the carriage opposite the first member, and a ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244092 | Car lifting platform A car lifting platform including a plurality of “L” shaped forks in a parallel mounting arrangement with plates interconnecting the forks. The plates are secured (typically by welding) to the forks and extend substantially along the horizontal leg of the “L”... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7216564 | Machinery slot cover A slot cover for an apparatus, the apparatus having a moving carriage and a member connected to the carriage which travels in a slot. The elongated hollow member is defined by a top member, a bottom member and a pair of side members. Each side member has a connectio... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7191872 | Fork height adjustment mechanism A material handling vehicle including a truck body and a fork assembly adjacent the truck body. A link arm extending between the truck body and the fork assembly has a proximal end and a distal end. A first pivot pin is fixed to the body and pivotally links the prox... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7063338 | Truck with support legs Narrow aisle truck that on each side includes two forward extending support legs, which each leg is provided with two support wheels. The two outer support wheels are displaced somewhat to the rear in relation to the inner support wheels, and, in the corner space ou... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7055240 | Positioning apparatus for precisely locating a part or other article Horizontal guide rails are mounted on a base and receive linear bearings mounted on the bottom of a tower which carries vertical guide rails receiving linear bearings mounted on a vertical carriage plate. Linear bearings are mounted on the carriage plate and support... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6971835 | Vapor-phase epitaxial growth method A single opening is formed in a central portion of a susceptor of a vapor phase epitaxial growth system. Consequently, any dopant diffused off outwardly from the back surface of a wafer during an epitaxial growth process can be exhausted through the opening to the b... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6948764 | Protective equipment cover system A protective cover apparatus system for a lift truck having a platform and mounted integrally thereon, an upper body superstructure having at least one of a rounded portion, a rectangular portion, and a box-shaped portion, the cover apparatus system made of a cushio... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6902039 | Protective shield apparatus for fork lift trucks Shield apparatus for a fork lift truck includes a flat stiff plate securable to the mast or vertical portion of a carriage of a fork lift truck. The shield apparatus includes fasting elements which are adjustable to fit different sized mast elements of fork lift tru... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6835343 | Method for handling concrete retaining wall blocks A method and apparatus for handling large concrete retaining wall blocks and the like. The blocks are cast in a form with the front face down, a lifting loop extending from a rear face and with grooves extending in sides from a rear face to adjacent the front face. ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6832884 | Shopping cart collection vehicle and method A new and improved shopping cart collection vehicle is disclosed for use in collecting, transporting, and storing various types of carts and carriers. The vehicle may additionally include hydraulic lifters, lights, a slip clutch, an extendable carrying arm, carrying... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6748858 | Printing system A printing apparatus and a printing method capable of preventing stacks of printed sheets from falling apart which can occur when continuously printing stacks of sheets of different sheet sizes. A printing press is controlled to suspend printing for removal of print... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6702123 | Block holding device A block holding device for holding a plurality of concrete blocks in a uniform manner as the blocks are made on a block maker. The device comprises a support that includes a planar elongated member having a ninety degree bend therein such that a first por... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6641357 | Laterally adjustable load carrying forks A fork lift rack that includes a first beam, a second beam and at least two spacer elements which fix the first and second beams at a distance from and substantially parallel to each other is taught. The load-bearing fork members can be mounted on the fir... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6632064 | Method and apparatus to mitigate noise during unloading of refuse containers The invention is directed to methods, apparatus and systems for retrofitting existing containers for use with vehicles having lifting forks for elevating and maneuvering such containers, and retrofitting the vehicle forks, as well as constructing new equi... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6533526 | Fork lift rack displacement device This invention relates to a displacement device mountable on a fork lift rack for allowing displacement of a lift member in a substantially vertical direction. The displacement device has a body with at least one elongated opening having its longitudinal ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6530735 | Gripper assembly A controlled material transport system (MTS) for carrying materials to and from workstations, test equipment, and processing and assembly tools in a common facility. The present invention includes a rigid robot vehicle mountable to a passive track system,... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6517307 | Attachment system for lift trucks A lift truck attachment for handling loads comprises a main frame assembly for attachment to an elevator of a lift truck and a lower slide assembly. The lower slide assembly includes an elongated sliding element for performing a reciprocal motion relative... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6502878 | Lifting device for layers of tray stacks A lifting device comprising: a substantially horizontally extending support forming a support surface, comprising at least two support elements, such as, for instance, two prongs of a fork, for supporting a stack, a lifting member, movably connected to th... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6471465 | Forklift blade cover A protective device for the free end of a tine of a forklift truck, in which a polymeric body is adapted to accommodate the end edge of a forklift truck tine. This protective device includes a forward end region that operatively obscures the end edge of t... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6446633 | Tobacco bale slicing apparatus and method The present application relates to a tobacco bale splitting apparatus for splitting a bale of compressed tobacco having a plurality of generally parallel tobacco leaves having stems. The present application also relates to a method of splitting a tobacco ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6435803 | Shopping cart collection vehicle and method A new and improved shopping cart collection vehicle, system, adapter, or device is disclosed for use in collecting, transporting, and storing various types of carts, carriers, or the like. The vehicle may additionally include hydraulic lifters, lights, a ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6422800 | On-board weighing system for front loading refuse vehicles The system is for use in a front loader assembly for refuse vehicles, which include two spaced fork members which are secured to a cross-member, which in turn are supported by lift arms which move the load supported on the forks into the refuse truck. The... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6390763 | Lift truck carriage with improved sideshifter A lift truck sideshifting carriage has an upper transverse slide guide with an upwardly-protruding first lip for slidably supporting an upper transversely-extending slide of a sideshifting frame. The sideshifting frame has a second upwardly-protruding lip... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6374928 | Method of blocking a pocket of a multi-pocket feed member for a directional drilling machine A method for blocking a pocket of a multi-pocket feed structure used to feed rods to and from a magazine of a directional drilling machine. The method includes providing a blocker at a non-blocking position, engaging the blocker with the feed structure, a... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6368050 | Fork lifts A fork lift tine construction is disclosed which includes a tine (11) and a tine mounting (12). The tine mounting (12) is characterised in that it includes at least one open area (A) through which the tip of the tine may be seen when viewed from the other... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6334447 | Tobacco bale slicing apparatus and method The present application relaxes to a tobacco bale splitting apparatus for splitting a bale of compressed tobacco having a plurality of generally parallel tobacco leaves having stems The present application also relates to a method of splitting a tobacco b... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6293749 | Substrate transfer system for semiconductor processing equipment A system for facilitating wafer transfer comprises a susceptor unit consisting of an inner susceptor section which rests within an outer susceptor section. A vertically movable and rotatable support spider located beneath the susceptor unit can rotate int... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6287073 | Detachable support frame for holding a pair of laterally adjustable load-carrying forks The lift fork rack includes a first beam, a second beam and at least two spacer elements which fix the first and second beams at a distance from and substantially parallel to each other. The load-bearing fork members can be mounted on the first and second... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6206628 | Pallet jack adapter An adapter for use with a pallet jack or truck to permit an operator to load and unload pallets from the four-way side of a pallet.... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6168367 | Shopping cart collection vehicle and method A new and improved shopping cart collection vehicle, system, adapter, or device is disclosed for use in collecting, transporting, and storing various types of carts, carriers, or the like. The vehicle may additionally include hydraulic lifters, lights, a ... | 01/02/2001 |
