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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7819262 | Apparatus for covering semitrailer payloads Apparatus for covering a payload of a semitrailer with a tarpaulin cover having an overhead structure including a first travel beam and a second travel beam. A carriage is movable on the first travel beam and second travel beam from a position where the carriage res... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7370768 | Crane apparatus for direct transshipment of marine containers between transportation modes without need of ground placement A crane apparatus is installed on a pier, wharf, bulkhead wharf or other foundation extending into the water for directly transshipping containers from a vessel moored alongside the foundation to another transportation mode without necessity of ground placement of t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367461 | Movable girder mounted jib A portable jib for movably mounting to a crane girder includes a base frame configured for traveling along a girder and a support member coupled to the base frame, wherein the support member extends substantially upward from the base frame. A boom is coupled to a fr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7334693 | Biased support A biased support for booms that can pivot about a pin, for pivoting travel tracks for vehicles that run on rails, such as trolley travel tracks on booms. The booms are mounted to pivot via pins, the lock on the boom and slide plates on the upper and lower bearing po... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7322786 | Mobile loader for transfer of containers between delivery vehicles and marine terminal cranes A mobile loader is driven to a dockside location underlying the spreader bar of a marine terminal crane. A delivery vehicle such as a train or a truck is driven into the loader at such dockside location so that containers maybe transferred between the delivery vehic... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309472 | Sterilization apparatus for orthodontic bands A sterilization system for dental and orthodontic tools is provided with a transport rack dimensionally sized to hold a plurality interchangeable cassettes. The interchangeable cassettes are designed and intended to hold kits of dental or orthodontic tools and are p... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7267239 | Method for nonintrusive scanning of cargo containers in a buffer operation A method for nonintrusive scanning of cargo containers quay side while the containers are being transferred between ship and land transportation utilizing a mobile cargo container handling buffer crane having a bridge crane mounted thereon for transferring cargo con... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7213841 | Stabilizer support system The present invention relates to a stabilizer support system and a method for stabilizing or supporting heavy equipment in general. The system may comprise a support structure such as a conventional A-frame that is configured to support a crane or heavy equipment. T... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7052226 | Wheeled container transfer self-aligning platform for marine terminal crane A wheeled platform is positioned between the legs of a marine terminal crane for reception thereon and departure therefrom of a motor truck from which a container is transferred by the crane onto a dockside positioned ship. The container is supported by the platform... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6981598 | Turn-table dual hoisting crane Containers are respectively loaded onto and delivered from two trolleys of a single crane at pick-up and delivery locations by guided travel of one of the trolleys along a fixed travel path on a boom between the delivery location at one end of the boom and a turn-ta... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6976599 | Multi-rail dual hoisting crane Containers are respectively loaded onto and delivered from two trolleys of a single crane at pick-up and delivery locations by guided travel along a fixed travel path on a boom between the delivery location at one end of the boom and a central structure of the crane... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6965823 | Operating method and device for operating automated container quay cranes An operating method for container quay cranes used to load and unload container ships aided by a PC with a monitor in a crane driver's cabin. The crane driver operates a touchscreen on the monitor, thereby enabling the crane to reach its specified target in a... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6845873 | Crane apparatus equipped with container security scanning system Crane apparatus is equipped with a container security scanning system for scanning containers for radioactive material, such as neutron or gamma ray emissions. The crane apparatus has a crane for unloading containers from a marine vessel and placing the containers o... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6652211 | Buffer straddle crane for cargo container handling operations A buffer crane for supplementing a quay crane operation and formed to operate thereunder with a landing deck for supporting a multiple of cargo containers above dockside cargo transport operations and for moving cargo containers therebetween by means of a... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6588611 | Bridge crane, especially a container-loading bridge A bridge crane, especially a container loading bridge, having a portal, a boom, a track system laid on the boom and crane trolleys which travel on the tracks, in which the track system comprises a working track, whose two rails have a mutual spacing corre... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6551043 | Loading device for ISO containers A loading device for ISO containers in a container terminal with a container bridge for the loading and unloading of ships and with automatic incoming and outgoing transfer of the containers by means of automatic guided vehicles, with at least one contain... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6530492 | Transporter container-loading bridge The invention relates to a transporter container-loading bridge comprising a two-armed traveling support, a lifting gear, a traveling mechanism and at least one portal, characterized in that at least two trolleys travel on individual tracks of the traveli... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6435361 | Lifting device for increasing the performance of a handling apparatus for ISO containers The invention relates to a lifting device for increasing the performance of a handling apparatus for ISO containers, in particular for increasing the performance of a container bridge in a terminal having automated inward and outward transport of the cont... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6068435 | Goods handling system The present invention is a goods handling system incorporating a mobile unit for loading and unloading goods, preferably positioned on load carriers, to and from a ship. The unit incorporates at least one substantially horizontal transport arm with at lea... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5951226 | Freight handling plant in depots and related depots The plant is mainly designed to increase the productivity of freight handling operations--for instance containers, in any kind of depot--to simplify the engineering works supporting the mobile crane (1) having a transversal boom (2), to eliminate stressin... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5788096 | Material-handling machine with hinged leg A material-handling machine includes a substantially horizontal girder having an end, a supporting flanged wheel at the end, a truck having rail-riding wheels on a rail and a girder mid-portion extending from the end and connected to a support leg extendi... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5778795 | Railway truck assembly for truck maintainence A railway truck assembly for performing a number of functions of repair, maintenance, replacement and other railway-orientated functions has a pair of trucks joined by one or more longitudinal beams which support hoists; the beam is pivoted for angular ho... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5775866 | Cargo loading crane A cargo loading crane (10) comprises a crane bridge (16) having two hoist units (26, 28) with hoisting gear (26b, 28b) and assigned cargo pick-up devices (26c, 28c), a transfer unit (32) with at least one cargo pick-up region (32o, 32u) and a conveyor uni... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5626247 | Procedure and apparatus for moving the main girder and trolley of a crane A procedure for moving the main girder (3) and trolley (2) of a crane uses a gantry part (6) with its bracing structures and a traversing machinery with traversing ropes (4), the traversing machinery being mounted in conjunction with the gantry part. Acco... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5603598 | Guide chute for cargo container handling cranes A method and apparatus for elimination of residual sway in a cargo container handling gantry crane for reducing container handling cycle times.... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5593050 | Bridge crane The invention relates to a bridge crane and more particularly ship's bridge crane, comprising a bridge, which has two transverse bearers extending parallel to one another and constituting a track for the travelling crane and folding lateral parts, respect... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5570986 | Cargo container transfer system for cranes A method and apparatus for cargo container transfer in a cargo container handling gantry crane for reducing container handling cycle times.... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5515982 | Telescoping shuttle for a cargo container handling crane A method and apparatus for vertically telescoping an automatic shuttle used for cargo container transfer in a cargo container handling gantry crane for reducing container handling cycle times.... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5421468 | Dockside container handling crane with high speed hoist system A high speed cable hoist system for conventional dockside container handling cranes of the type comprising a frame and a movable boom extending laterally therefrom. The high speed cable hoist includes a hoist cable speed enhancing system which comprises a... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5409123 | Cable guide for the trolley traveling winch of gantry cranes A cable guide for the trolley traveling winch on gantry cranes for container, general-cargo, and grab operation, with a land-side support and a water-side jib that can be tilted up, the necessary deflection rollers, tensioning devices, and at least one ca... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5405029 | Portal crane with additional load carrier A crane comprising a horizontally extending frame having a longitudinal axis, the frame being supported above the ground for horizontal movement generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis; a trolley supported on the frame for movement generally alon... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5385249 | Material handling machine with force-isolating support link The disclosure involves a material handling machine such as a lattice-type portal crane having an elongate lattice girder suspended from a girder beam by a first and second support links. In turn, the girder beam is supported at an elevation by a pair of ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5354166 | Leaning transfer device A new and novel transfer device of the type used to move heavy filled bulk containers from a location outside of the transfer device to a position within the transfer device and above a base footprint of the transfer device where the filled bulk container... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5343739 | Gantry crane collision avoidance device A transmitter attached to the overhang of a hoisting crane that is movable over rails. The transmitter is operative to transmit signals to receivers also mounted on the hoisting crane. During movement of the crane, the signals may be blocked by objects th... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5289780 | Material handling railroad freightcar-mounted gantry and crane with toppling prevention and supplemental support upon derailment A gantry adapted for operation along rails attached to the top of a railroad car includes two pairs of wheels, each pair operating on a respective rail. A base support member is positioned above the rail and between the wheels on each side of the gantry. ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5265741 | Boom extension for gantry cranes An apparatus and method for providing a boom extension for retractable booms of gantry cranes which does not require lowering the boom during attachment of the extension, or increasing the lift capacity of the boom hoist machinery, nor does the boom exten... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5140925 | Arrangement in general cargo ships having side port openings A cargo ship (10) is equipped with side port openings (34,35) for transporting freight (59) inwardly and outwardly from the ship. The ship (10) is equipped with an upper superstructure (25) in a continuous length above a fore-and-aft row of upwardly openi... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5022542 | Crane leg connection A crane leg connection is disclosed in which a crane has a frame length greater than its width, and has supporting legs including facing leg members connected to the frame and extending from the frame downward and away from each other and away from the fr... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4990046 | Apparatus for loading containers on to ships and unloading them therefrom An apparatus for loading containers onto and unloading containers from ships, in which the ships receive the containers at locations of varying height, comprises a quayside carrier framework and a travelling carrier system fitted on the carrier framework,... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4930970 | Collapsible hoist for a truck bed A hoisting apparatus for the use in trucks has frame members 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 which are pivotally moveable and slidable connected to one another such that the apparatus can be assembled and disassembled by a single person and placed in a transporting po... | 06/05/1990 |
