# US 10,865,057 B2 · Transfer equipment and load transfer appliance > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,865,057 B2 - Document ID: US10865057B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/065,826 - Filed: 2017-02-16 - Published: 2019-01-10 - Granted: 2020-12-15 - Earliest claimed: 2016-02-16 - Assignees: Actiw Oy - Applicants: Actiw Oy - Inventors: Reijo Viinonen - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10865057B2 ## CPC - B65G 67/20: Loading covered vehicles - B65G 67/24: Unloading land vehicles - B65G: TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable mobile or lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F9/00; emptying bottles, jars, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D) ## Abstract Transfer equipment, which is intended to be used in a load transfer appliance, includes a plastic sheet to be placed under the load and a stiffener plate which is attached as a stiffener to the plastic sheet. The transfer equipment also includes a second plastic sheet. In addition, in the transfer equipment, the stiffener plate is arranged between the plastic sheets. Also disclosed is a load transfer appliance. ## Claims ### Claim 1 Transfer equipment, which is intended to be used in a load transfer appliance, and which includes a plastic sheet to be placed under a load, and which plastic sheet withstands both sliding over the bottom of a load space and pulling out from under the load characterized in that in addition to the plastic sheet, the transfer equipment includes a metal stiffener plate, which is attached as a stiffener to the plastic sheet, and the transfer equipment includes a second plastic sheet, and in the transfer equipment, the stiffener plate is arranged between the plastic sheets, and the stiffener plate and plastic sheets are attached to each other in the area of only one end to form composite construction transfer equipment. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the stiffener plate is 5-20 mm. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the stiffener plate is a composite structure. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the metal stiffener plate is of high-strength steel. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the plastic sheet is 5-20 mm. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the stiffener plate includes one or more attachment lugs for attaching the transfer equipment to the load transfer appliance. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) Transfer equipment according to claim 6, characterized in that there are two attachment lugs. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the stiffener plate and the second plastic sheet are equally long and they extend over the whole distance of the plastic sheet. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the stiffener plate and the second plastic sheet are equally long and they extend over part of the distance of the plastic sheet. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) Transfer equipment according to claim 9, characterized in that the over part of the distance is more than half of the length of the plastic sheet. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) Transfer equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the length of the transfer equipment is 6000-16000 mm. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) Load transfer appliance, in which transfer equipment is arranged, which includes a plastic sheet to be placed under the load, characterized in that the transfer equipment is transfer equipment according to claim 1. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) Load transfer appliance according to claim 12, characterized in that the load transfer appliance includes means for pulling the load from the load space onto the transfer equipment. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) Load transfer appliance according to claim 13, characterized in that the means include winch means and a towing belt, which is arranged around the load. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) Load transfer appliance according to claim 14, characterized in that the winch means include two winches, which are hydraulic. ### Claim 16 (depends on 12) Load transfer appliance according to claim 12, characterized in that during unloading the load, the transfer equipment includes an auxiliary plate on top of the front edge of the transfer equipment.