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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7950891 | Method for the loading and unloading railway wagons and device, wagon chassis and wagon attachment for carrying out said method A method for loading and unloading rail cars includes at least one car, having a frame and a superstructure, moved into loading and unloading positions. During unloading the car superstructure is lifted off from the frame with lifting devices to an unloading level, ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7343995 | Air cargo transport system The cargo transport system according to this invention employs a tow vehicle that can automatically follow and run upon guide lines. The tow vehicle can tow cargo laden equipment such as container dollies to thereby automatically transport the air cargo. The air car... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7275715 | Operational ground support system An integrated operational ground mobility and support system (10) that includes an aircraft (12) having one or more service openings on a side of the aircraft (12). The integrated support system (10) may have an airport interface terminal... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6954959 | Supplemental lift system for an over-the-wing passenger boarding bridge Disclosed is a supplemental lift system for use with an aircraft passenger boarding bridge of a type that includes a tunnel section for being extended over the wing of an aircraft in a cantilever-like fashion. The supplemental lift system is for use in an event that... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6905095 | Multiple platform aircraft cargo loader An aircraft cargo loader includes a first generally horizontal platform structure adjustable in height between ground level and a first elevated position. The loader includes a second generally horizontal platform structure positioned adjacent to the first generally... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6354782 | Container crane hoist and system A device has lift arms (42) with links (46,46D) connected to ends of a loadspreader (40) or the links (46,46D) are swivelly connected to the lift arms (42) and aligned to hook special containers (20D). The lift arms (42) are pivotally connected to a hub (... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6164892 | Freight loading system An airport loading system which utilizes various conveyor and elevated configurations to load aircraft rapidly while requiring significantly less processing area. The aircraft loading/unloading turn around time is significantly reduced because the pallets... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6162004 | Cargo handling system A system for handling and transporting cargo includes a container supported by wheels mounted on detachable casterboards fitted within casterboard holders provided on the bottom wall of the container. The system also includes an apparatus that elevates th... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6068438 | Cargo-container crane and system This is a top lift rotary-crane transfer device and system especially suited for transferring cargo containers between a railway car and one or more conveyors or other vehicles or storage spots. It has a revolving loadspreader on the end of a revolving cr... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5857821 | System for loading and unloading rail vehicles Freight is transferred between a car of a train riding on rails extending in a travel direction and a stationary street vehicle while the train is moving slowly in the travel direction by displacing a grab into a position above the rails, identifying the ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5609460 | Process for transferring goods load units on or from a train For the transloading of loaded goods units (82), such as containers, interchangeable containers, semi-trailers or the like by means of transloading lifting gear (18) from or onto a slowly travelling train (6) formed by container cars (48), there is initia... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5468117 | Heating of tank car walls for ejecting frozen or congealed cargo A device and method for unloading frozen or congealed crude oil, oil product, or chemical cargo from a railway or highway tank car. A brief heating step uses the high thermal conductivity of metal tank walls, and the low thermal conductivity of oil or che... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5421688 | Installation for the load transfer of piece goods in the form of load units such as containers, returnable containers, semi-trailers or the like Apparatus for the installation for transferring piece goods between road and railborne vehicles includes a receiving and an issuing store, the outer sides of which remote from the railway line adjoin a loading roadway for the unloading or/and loading of r... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5238352 | Web roll transferring apparatus A web roll transferring apparatus consisting of a roll stand, a couple of bogies which run on the rails disposed on each side of the roll stand and a turntable disposed in a roll transferring station locating in front of the roll stand so as to be rotatab... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5152655 | Material handling apparatus A load rotator assembly rotates and positions loads which are transferred between vehicles which move along aisles. The load rotator assembly includes a carriage which sequentially receives loads from one of the vehicles. A carriage drive assembly rotates... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5064331 | Vertical conveying apparatus A vertical conveying apparatus for vertically conveying an article between at least two horizontal surfaces having different vertical positions, includes a plurality of vertical tracks, vertical conveying trucks, horizontal conveying trucks, and coupling ... | 11/12/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4728241 | Apparatus for lifting and removing garbage containers from garbage trucks Garbage can be collected and fowarded in an economical manner by garbage trucks on which containers are detachably mounted. The containers can be lifted and removed from the garbage trucks and transferred to forwarding trucks in a simple operation. This i... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4642851 | Conveying arrangement for conveying textile cans The arrangement conveys cans which deliver and receive textile material, between machines delivering such material and machines which are substantially of the same type but use such material, along a closed transport or conveying path. The conveying path ... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4173422 | Produce handling system The invention is a produce handling system with a self-unloading trailer and a free-standing conveyor. The trailer has an unloading conveyor in its bottom covered by removable doors. The free-standing conveyor has an infeed section that receives the produ... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4041686 | Method of and arrangement for transporting yarn packages A method of transporting yarn packages is disclosed, in which yarn packages formed by a first yarn package forming machine or machines of a pre-processing process are transported to another yarn package forming machine or machines of a post-processing in ... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4022336 | Apparatus for conveying bulk material This invention relates to apparatus for conveying bulk materials, such as minerals, down a vertical or steeply inclined path of descent. An endless conveyor carries the material downwards by gravity, and at the same time drives an energy transformation un... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4016989 | Work handling apparatus A stack of workpiece fabrics carried on a mobile cart is brought to a sewing machine having a work surface spaced above the table surface of the cart on which the fabric is supported. An air powered lift mechanism mounted on the sewing machine and engaged... | 04/12/1977 |
