Device for suspending under aircraft miscellaneous loads with variable distance between centers
AssigneeR. Alkan & Cie
InventorPierre F. Coutin
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Abstract
Device for carrying under aircraft multiple loads disposed at variable distances between centers, the modification of the distance between centers being obtained by rotating load supports about longitudinal axes by means of bearings provided in the frame structure of the carrier device. Each load support may be rigid with circular sets of teeth engaged by matching teeth formed on arms fulcrumed by means of eccentric pins on the frame structure and controlled for a same load support by cam device rigid with a common shaft.
Claims10
A device for carrying under aircraft multiple loads disposed at variable distances between centers, which comprises:
- (a) a central frame structure equipped at its upper face with suspension members adapted to co-act with hook means of the aircraft,
- (b) a pair of lateral hollow nacelles carried on each side of said central frame structure,
- (c) load supports disposed within each lateral nacelle and presenting load suspension means registering with an aperture of the corresponding nacelle, said load supports being mounted in bearings carried by each nacelle to rotate about the longitudinal axis of said nacelle, and
- (d) control means associated to said load supports to cause the load supports disposed within each nacelle to rotate about the longitudinal axis of said nacelle, thus ensuring a variation in the distances between centers of the loads suspended to the load supports of one nacelle and to the load supports of the other nacelle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.