Vehicle for transporting goods
AssigneeFaymonville Distribution AG
InventorFabrizio Lippi
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Abstract
A goods vehicle has a chassis with at least one load deck, a plurality of steerable carriages underneath the load deck and an attachment and support assembly for the load, to be transported, supported by the chassis; the attachment and support assembly being provided with an attachment head for the load to be transported, a multiple-bar kinematic system for coupling the support head to the chassis and an actuator for moving the support head with respect to the chassis with a roto-translational motion; the support head being coupled to the kinematic system by means of a hinge having a movable hinge axis.
Claims10
A vehicle for transporting goods, the vehicle comprising:
- a chassis comprising:
- at least one load deck and extending along a longitudinal axis,
- a plurality of steering bogies arranged underneath said load deck, and
- an attachment and support assembly for attaching and supporting the goods, the attachment and support assembly being supported by said chassis;
- the attachment and support assembly comprising:
- a support head, to support the goods,
- an apparatus coupling said support head to said chassis, and
- an actuation device operable to move the support head with respect to the chassis;
- said apparatus comprising a first hinge having a first hinge axis, horizontal and transverse to said longitudinal axis,
- wherein said first hinge and said first hinge axis are movable with respect to said chassis along a first circular path;
- wherein said apparatus further comprises a second movable hinge having a second movable hinge axis, parallel to said first movable hinge axis, spaced apart radially from said first movable hinge axis, movable together with said first movable hinge axis, and movable along a second circular path having a radius other than the radius of said first circular path;
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- wherein said actuation device comprises an actuator having a rod acting on said support head and configured to exert a tensile force on said support head towards said chassis at least during operations of moving said support head to and from a reclined load-bearing position, which is substantially horizontal.
An attachment and support assembly for goods to be transported and suitable to be coupled to a vehicle chassis;
- the attachment and support assembly comprising:
- an interface structure suitable to be connected to said vehicle chassis,
- a support head for supporting the goods to be transported,
- an apparatus coupling said support head to said interface structure, and
- an actuation device operable to move said support head with respect to the interface structure;
- said apparatus comprising a first hinge having a first hinge axis, horizontal and transverse to a longitudinal axis,
- wherein said first hinge and the first hinge axis are movable with respect to said interface structure along a first circular path;
- wherein said apparatus further comprises a second movable hinge having a second movable hinge axis, parallel to said first movable hinge axis, spaced apart radially from said first movable hinge axis, movable together with said first movable hinge axis, and movable along a second circular path having a radius other than the radius of said first circular path;
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- wherein said actuation device comprises an actuator having a rod acting on said support head and configured to exert a tensile force on said support head towards said vehicle chassis at least during the operations of moving said support head to and from a reclined load-bearing position, which is substantially horizontal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.