Load-handling apparatus adapted to be mounted on an elevatable lift carriage of a lift truck as well as a lift truck comprising such a load-handling apparatus
AssigneeGriptech B.V.
InventorRobert Servaas Matti
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Abstract
A load-handling apparatus mountable on a lift carriage of a lift truck including at least four parallel guides making up first and second pairs of parallel abutting guides, and at least two oppositely directed hydraulic actuated piston cylinders, wherein at least two load-handling arms are connectable to the cylinders for moving the arms with respect to the guides, wherein each of the arms is moveably supported by a guide, and wherein the first and second pairs of guides are spaced by connection elements.
Claims13
A load-handling apparatus adapted to be mounted on an elevatable lift carriage of a lift truck, the load-handling apparatus comprising:
- at least four parallel guides making up a first pair of parallel abutting guides and a second pair of parallel abutting guides;
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- at least two oppositely directed and hydraulic actuated piston cylinders;
- wherein at least two load-handling arms are connectable to the hydraulic actuated piston cylinders for moving the load-handling arms with regard to the at least four parallel guides to and from each other for engaging a load;
- wherein each of the load-handling arms is moveably supported by one guide of each of the first and second pairs of guides and the second pair of guides is spaced from the first pair of guides by a distance defined by connection elements positioned between the first and the second pairs of guides in such a way that the connection elements influence one dimension of the load-handling apparatus;
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- wherein the connection elements define a viewing window between the first and second pairs of guides and the connection elements through which a first side of the load-handling apparatus can be viewed from a second side of the load-handling apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.