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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7618224 | Storage and retrieval system This invention is an oblique fork or channel parallel moving transfer system especially for lift or stacker vehicles for storage and retrieval of containers such as automobile parking pallets, racks, parts boxes, etc. on storage shelves, platforms or racks including... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7438515 | Container dump truck and oblique transfer system This invention is a drive-by side transfer system including a dump container and its dump truck. The truck has a bed mounted for rear or side dumping and has one or more parallel roller or slide channel-ways run obliquely across the bed extendable beyond at least on... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7286890 | Transfer apparatus for target object A processing system includes a transfer chamber, a plurality of chambers connected to the transfer chamber, a transfer apparatus disposed in the transfer chamber, and a control section configured to control the transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus includes a b... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7121782 | Container lift-off hoist This is a cargo container overhead hoist operated by a highway truck to load or unload the container from the bed of the truck to an overhead hoist for holding the container. The hoist has parallel swing links that lift the container, and a latch to hold it lifted s... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7014410 | Container drive-by transfer and system This is a container transfer system including a highway vehicle and container platform on a railway car, dock, or conveyor to transfer containers by driving alongside of the platform. One or more channels are secured obliquely across the truck bed with extensions wh... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6997666 | Automated cart unloading/conveyor system An automated cart unloading/conveyor system for automated unloading of articles from a transport vehicle or cart to one or more transfer surfaces, conveyors, or other platforms. A specially configured cart carries articles to be transferred upon shelves. The cart is... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6695561 | Container drive-by-transfer and system A dock or railway has a length of parallel track-driveway spaced along side for rail mounted tractor-trailers or truck-bus chassis-cab to guide on and travel to transfer cargo or people containers between the dock or cars in a train stopped for these tran... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6652214 | Container oblique-channel transfer and system This is a slide, roller-bed, magnlev, or fluid lift side transfer platform system for transfer of transport or cargo containers from and to railway cars, motor trucks or conveyor and a dock. The container has transfer arms that extend or lock into corner ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6619904 | Container transfer crossover and system This is a loader moved by a train to cross over the train to transfer cargo, mail, baggage, express, passenger, or freight containers from and to railway cars in the train. A revolving jib crane or skewed traveling crane with depending parallelogram linka... | 09/16/2003 |
| 5733092 | Rotary loader and system This is a top-lifting rotary loader and system for cargo containers and is especially suited for loading and unloading double-stacking container well cars and single level railway cars, semitrailers, etc. This loader has a vertical pivot post about which ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5381885 | Trolley apparatus with improved unloader An unloading apparatus for removing articles on hangers from a trolley comprises a hanger receiving member extending alongside the path of the trolley and movable up and down in an arcuate path following the contour of the hanger support bar of the trolle... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5219261 | Rotary loader and system This is a top-lifting rotary loader and system especially suited for loading and unloading double stacking container well cars. This loader has a self-aligning loadspreader on a crane lift arm extended to revolve around and swing up and down from a vertic... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5183368 | Apparatus for transporting light loads by means of self-propelled carriages on rails An apparatus is disclosed for transporting loads of the type comprising self-propelled carriages movable on rails and having assembly structure on which removable containers may be engaged and temporarily fixed, loading and unloading of such containers ta... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5096354 | Apparatus for receiving and/or delivering articles Apparatus for receiving and/or delivering articles comprises a generally horizontal conveyor having a number of cars arranged to travel along it. A receiving station and a delivering station are located in the path of travel of the cars along the conveyor... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5018928 | Sortation equipment The present invention provides a novel train and track which can be used in an automated, tracked soration system which is capable of sorting and transporting high volumes ofgoods efficiently and which gives flexible system design, easy set-up, easy servi... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4981410 | Swinging-linkages rotary loader These new rotary loaders for transfer of cargo containers or semitrailers to and from railway cars etc. are characterized by a load lift arm or frame or platform supporting two or more parallel swinging parallelogram arms each supported free to swing in a... | 01/01/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4746257 | Road-rail trailer and container transfer system A driveway for tractor-trailers is elevated along one side having a side coupling runner mounted to roll on wheels in a track along the side of the driveway facing a single-arm rotary loader. The runner is longer than the tractor-trailer and has a lift pu... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4527484 | Conveyor apparatus, particularly for suspension conveyance The invention relates to a conveyor apparatus, particularly for intra-plant and plant-to-plant suspension conveyance, comprising a conveyor rail system for the conveyance therealong of bridge-type carriers suspended at both ends from the conveyor rails by... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4519737 | Rotary loader and side-coupling transfer system This loader has two rotary arms which turn a load spreader fork frame off-parallel so that only one fork is extended to couple. The fork frame has a fork at each end with a cam track diagonal across the bottom engaged on the extended fork by a coupling ro... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4508484 | Installation for the automatic removal and reception of loads through the intermediary of transport vehicles The transport installation comprises a reception station and a transport vehicle between which a load can be displaced in a horizontal plane by movement of the vehicle. To avoid the necessity of raising the transport vehicle or of having recourse to an au... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4370086 | Rotary loader and side coupling system This rotary loader and side coupling system for transfer of semitrailers or containers has a vertical pivot post with one or more load handling lobes or turntables each mounted on a horizontal flat lobe on an end of a frame or arm which is hinged to a sli... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4370085 | Rotary parallel arm loader and system This rotary loader has two vertical posts each with a rotary arm radiating therefrom with a load platform centered an equal distance out on each arm. The arms are coordinated to revolve parallel and move under and lift or lower together to transfer a load... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4362456 | Rotary loader and storage system This loader has one or more frames mounted to travel around a central pivot post. Each frame has preferably two fork arms extending radially out and curved inward like a gear or sprocket tooth profile to mesh between pedestals on a vehicle moved tangentia... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4277201 | Transportable roadway and means for deploying the same A transportable roadway which can be folded layer upon layer on a flat bed ransporter/launcher vehicle and be easily deployed in a swampy or marshy area to provide a temporary roadway during military operations. The roadway comprises a plurality of section... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4270880 | Load transfer system A system for the transfer of loads from a wheeled transporter to a roller conveyor. The system includes two transfer conveyors which are arranged in alignment with a roller conveyor supplying a machine. Strips are provided on the wheeled transporter which... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4124129 | Loader and storage system This invention is a loader-unloader and storage system for loads such as cargo containers or trailers to transfer them to or from trains or vehicles moving by. This loader has a lift frame with forks or hooks for engaging under to hold a load. The frame i... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4065006 | Container side-transfer system This invention improves upon my side transfer system and devices of my U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,416,684, 3,483,829, and 3,484,002 wherein the improvement comprises transfer devices actuated by a cam rider or riders on transfer station car engaging a cam track alo... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4039090 | Muck-evacuating system in tunneling operation A muck-evacuating system such as for use in tunneling operation and including in combination a train of wagons running in a tunnel and an elevator of separate receptacles adapted to automatically pick up the muck-filled receptacles one by one off the trai... | 08/02/1977 |
