B66C 17/04
Overhead travelling cranes comprising one or more substantially horizontal girders the ends
Official title: with lifting beams, e.g. slewable beams, carrying load-engaging elements, e.g. magnets, hooks (constructions of load-engaging elements B66C1/00, B66C3/00)
B66C17/04 (Overhead travelling cranes comprising one or more substantially horizontal girders the ends) appears on 47 US grants and 50 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66C- Granted patents
- 47
- Published applications
- 50
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 116
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Crane adapted to the handling of uniform cargo units18US 4,049,132 ASalen & Wicander Terminalsystem AB · 1977
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