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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7695236 | Utility vehicle A versatile mobile utility cart or vehicle using either tracks, wheels or both for suspension and steering with propulsion coming from but not limited to an internal combustion engine or an electric motor. The vehicle is meant to be a utility workhorse with the abil... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7350467 | Long rail pick-up and delivery system A long rail pick-up and delivery system providing increased efficiency and safety. The long rail pick-up and delivery system can include a power car, a rail train, a loading car, an unloading car, a transition car and two independent gantries. The dual gantry design... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7090456 | Apparatus for loading, transporting, stacking and feeding bales An apparatus to load, transport, stack, retrieve and feed bales of hay can be run by a single operator. A vehicle frame supports an operator cab forward of a tiltable bed. A track begins near the ground in front of the cab and proceeds back toward to bed to above th... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7029226 | Cargo carrying deck for the tractor of a semitrailer truck Cargo carry apparatus (220) for a tractor (500) of a semitrailer truck includes a rotatable deck (222) mounted between the fifth wheel (502) and the cab which pivots from a vertical position to a horizontal position until the deck rests u... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013790 | System and method for deploying a weapon from a stealth position A stealth weapon module (10) including a weapon support cage (11) and a weapon (12), with the weapon module (10) able to be stowed beneath a retractable hard roof (15). The roof (15) is raised and lowered by a hydraulic moto... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6811367 | Bale flipper autoloader system and method A device and method for one-person loading of a multi-bale hay trailer. A bale flipping frame is temporarily attached to a side rail of the hay trailer where it is guided along the side rail in order to position a bale in each bale holding location on the trailer. T... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6737980 | Apparatus for monitoring speed and operating time of wafer lift of semiconductor fabricating equipment An apparatus that automatically monitors speed and operating time of a semiconductor fabricating equipment lift that lifts a wafer cassette up/down. The apparatus automatically indicates operational state of the lift including lift speed time, use time after motor r... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6733227 | Elevating lift Disclosed herein is an elevating lift for raising and lowering a load (such as a sensor suite) onboard a vehicle, such as a Humvee, which can allow for the transport of the vehicle in a standard transport without removal of the sensor suite from the vehicle, and can... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6085811 | Boom assembly and platform for tracked feller buncher machine A timber harvesting machine including a chassis supported by endless tracks. A platform is mounted on the chassis. A platform is rotatable on the turntable in an annular bearing race on the turntable. A boom is mounted on the platform and includes a main ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6019562 | Bale loading system A bale loading system comprising a bale carrier and a method for loading, transporting, and unloading large bales of agricultural material. The bales can be either round or rectangular bales. The bale carrier is towed to a bale in a field. The bale is pos... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5921738 | Square bale transporter A bale transporting and stacking method and apparatus are disclosed. The bales are picked up from the field and placed bottom side down on the bed of the bale transporter. When the transporter is full, the bed, or part of the bed, is tipped upright to for... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5762464 | Railroad car for loading and unloading rails A car for loading and unloading elongated rails comprises a frame supported on a track by undercarriages, the frame defining at least one clearance between the undercarriages for permitting the elongated rails to be guided therethrough, a guiding roller a... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5730572 | Bale handling carrier A carrier adapted to be drawn over the ground for handling and transporting bales of hay comprises a rigid framework assembly adapted to be connected to a towing vehicle for transporting a series of bales in side-to-side relationship substantially along t... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5725348 | Dumpster and vehicle mounted lifting arm therefor The present invention provides a dumpster and a lifting arm for lifting the dumpster and dumping the contents of the dumpster into a storage box. The dumpster includes an open top and is for storing garbage or some other material and is supported on the g... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5599071 | Multi-compartmentalized dumping body with movable floor A multiple compartment storage body for a refuse collection vehicle includes a floor, a roof, a plurality of walls and a partition. The plurality of walls extend between the floor and the roof and include a front wall, a rear wall, and side walls between ... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5599157 | Center-loading harvester The invention provides a center-line loading harvester that can: 1) drive up to a filled fruit picker's tub; 2) lift the tub and transfer its contents to a hopper from whence a conveyor moves the fruit to a larger dump bin; 3) place the tub back on the gr... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5530374 | Method of identifying probe position and probing method in prober A marker is provided outside the probe arrangement region of the lower surface of a probe card. In identifying positions of probes, the marker is recognized by a camera before the distal end of a reference probe is recognized. The camera is then moved fro... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5501567 | Refuse vehicles This invention pertains to a combined refuse vehicle and refuse side loaded and recycling curbside collector vehicle. Recycled materials may be placed either in (i) a hopper which is elevated and tilted to discharge into the upper, open end of a recycling... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5391039 | Refuse loader arm The bin grabbing nipper (22) of a refuse loader arm is held at a constant angle to limb (15) by a parallelogram linkage having pivots (26, 17, 19, 25). Thus, pivoting of limb (15) leads directly to inversion of the raised bin and no separate operation of ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5320472 | Non-stop large bale loading, transporting and unloading machine and method A machine for loading, transporting and unloading large bales is capable of operating in a non-stop mode across a field and between the field and an unloading site. The non-stop machine includes a fore-and-aft extending mobile chassis movable over the fie... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5122025 | Multiple compartment body for waste products and the like A multiple compartment body comprises a housing having walls defining an interior storage area. An interior wall extends within the interior storage area for defining at least two compartments within the interior storage area. The interior wall is attache... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5059081 | Refuse truck container handling apparatus Apparatus for attachment to a refuse truck for moving a refuse container platform from a ground loading station to elevated, inverted dumping and/or washing stations above the truck bed includes a pair of elevating assemblies connected to the sides of the... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5035269 | Safety gas cylinder containment system A safety gas and liquid containment unit is provided with sealing for retaining the hazardous gas therein until treated. The containment unit can be placed on a transport carrier and rotated from a vertical position to a horizontal position thereon. The g... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5033930 | Garbage collecting truck A garbage collecting truck comprises a pouring unit, which has an open-topped pouring opening disposed between the driver's cab and the collecting container of the truck and also comprises a lifting and tipping apparatus consisting of at least one lifting... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5007786 | Refuse collection system, refuse collection truck and loader assembly therefor An improved loader apparatus for a refuse collection truck or vehicle which includes a vertical rail assembly, a carriage apparatus mounted for vertical up and down movement along the rail assembly, a single length of drive chain for lifting and lowering ... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4979865 | Loading and unloading apparatus for pickup trucks Apparatus for loading and unloading materials onto and from a truck bed includes a corner-mounted swivel hoist mechanism which is releasably clamped to the walls of the truck bed and includes an upper swivel boom member and a lower winch assembly having a... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4952111 | Pick up and stacking device for large hay bales A self-propelled vehicle for picking up and stacking large hay bales of a one-ton size is disclosed. The vehicle has a pivotally mounted stacking bed that receives bales in a horizontally arrayed matrix and pivots to deposit the arrayed matrix in a vertic... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4943203 | Retriever truck A vehicle having a flat bed for transporting a waste product container by placing the container fully on the bed. A groove in the bed is provided for a carriage which is winch operated down the length of the vehicle. A vertically movable member is mounted... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4880346 | Self-loading truck and tilt bed therefor A remote controlled self-loading truck having a tilt bed equipped with a bed mounted hoist and having fold-down sides, and for mounting on standard truck chassis. An elevated hoist is supported on the tiltable bed adjacent to its forward end for movement ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4674942 | Load hauling tandem combination Load-hauling tandem combination formed of a motor driven truck releasably hitched to a wheel-mounted trailer which is self-propelled and self-steerable when unhitched from the truck. A lifting mechanism is provided on the trailer for mounting and removing... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4613274 | Self-loading dump truck A self-loading dump body truck comprising a vehicle having a frame, first and second cross members mounted on the frame, the first cross member being positioned near the rear of the vehicle and the second cross member being positioned forwardly of the fir... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4552501 | Big bale handling system A machine for lifting, rotating and transporting crops in the form of bales. The machine includes a motorized chassis with a cab for an operator. A tilt table is located on the back of the chassis for holding and unloading the bales. A boom is positioned ... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4540032 | Tree harvesting machine A tree harvesting machine is disclosed which is of the type having a wheel-mounted frame, a tree harvesting mechanism at the front and a berth at the rear for accumulated felled trees. An inverted tree grapple is provided forwardly of the berth and is mou... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4522549 | Transport vehicle for a slag receptacle A transport vehicle for a slag pot comprising a vertically movable load surface and two lifting arms for the pot activated by hydraulic cylinders. The lifting arms are connected to a subframe positioned outside the load surface. The lifting arms are conne... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4519189 | Telescoping basket cover A cotton harvester basket for accumulating picked cotton comprises four walls, a floor with a conveyor and a detachable roof section. The basket is vertically moveable between its raised and lowered positions by hydraulic cylinders disposed at the opposit... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4373856 | Tie butt handler The self-propelled load carrying vehicle includes a vehicle framework supported by road wheels, and railroad wheels are mounted on the framework and are movable up and down with respect to the framework for supporting the vehicle from the railroad track. ... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4261676 | Bale carrier The bale carrier functions as a bale loading, transporting and unloading apparatus. It comprises an elongated base framework mounted on wheels, an elongated bale supporting bed aligned over and supported by the base framework, a power operated bale loader... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4259034 | Bale handling apparatus Bale handling apparatus is disclosed which in one embodiment is capable of self-loading a plurality of, for example, four large round hay bales, transporting the hay bales, stacking the hay bales, loading a stack of hay bales for transporting to another a... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4009791 | Truck dump-body operating mechanism Truck dump-body operating mechanism comprising a L-shaped member the horizontal branch of which is, on one hand, slidably translatable in side members and, on the other hand, pivoting about a shaft transverse to the chassis of the truck, the vertical bran... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3987918 | Device for loading or unloading boxes or removable buckets, in particular for lorries A handling device, in particular for lorries intended for handling boxes or containers, comprising a chassis on which arms are pivoted, which arms are adapted to handle removable buckets. The device is adapted to be mounted on a lorry specially intended f... | 10/26/1976 |
