Method and system for storing wheeled frames of detachable cargo container type trailers
AssigneesScott S. Corbett, Jr., Lynn F. Perrott
InventorJoseph L. Riley
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Abstract
The wheeled frame remaining after removal of the detachable cargo container, is gripped by clamping mechanism of a carrying unit mounted on a tractor or lift truck, then elevated above the ground and pivoted from its normal horizontal disposition to vertical position, and then transported to a multiple storage unit where it is deposited and retained in the vertical position removably in one of a plurality of compartments making up the storage unit. A plurality of such wheeled frames may be stored in this manner by deposit in successive ones of the compartments, and they are removed from the compartment in the reverse order of deposit.
Claims7
A storage system for the elongated wheeled frame of a trailer of the detachable carge container type, wherein the trailer frame has a top container-supporting surface, a bottom surface opposite said top surface, a pair of laterally spaced elongated outer sides and longitudinally spaced front and rear ends, and the wheels are supported adjacent the rear end of the frame, the storage system comprising:
- (a) a mobile vehicle,
- (b) carrying means mounted on the mobile vehicle and including:
- (1) a pair of power operated clamp jaw members movable one toward and away from the other to a clamping position closely adjacent each other for releasably clamping between them the said top container-supporting surface and the opposite bottom surface of a trailer frame at least in areas adjacent both laterally spaced sides thereof forwardly of the wheels, and
- (2)power operated means mounting the clamp jaw members for movement relative to the mobile vehicle for moving a clamped wheeled trailer frame from its normal ground-supported horizontal position first to a position raised above ground, then to a substantially vertically extending position with its front end extending upwardly and its rear end elevated above ground for transport, then from the vertically extending raised position downwardly to a vertically extending lowered position for resting the frame upon its rear end in storage, and for moving a clamped wheeled trailer frame from its vertically extending lowered position in storage first to a vertically extending position with its rear end elevated above ground, then to a substantially horizontally extending position raised above ground, and then to a lowered substantially horizontally extending position with its wheels resting upon the ground, and
- (c) storage compartment means arranged for removably receiving and retaining a wheeled trailer frame delivered to it by the vehicle-mounted carrying means in said vertically extending position for resting the frame in storage condition upon its rear end.
Apparatus for moving the elongated wheeled frame of a trailer of the detachable cargo container type to a vertically extending storage position resting upon its rear end, wherein the trailer frame has a top container-supporting surface, a bottom surface opposite said top surface, a pair of laterally spaced elongated outer sides and longitudinally spaced front and rear ends, and the wheels are supported adjacent the rear end of the frame, the apparatus comprising:
- (a) a mobile vehicle,
- (b) carrying means mounted on the mobile vehicle and including:
- (1) a pair of power operated clamp jaw members movable one toward and away from the other to a clamping position closely adjacent each other for releasably clamping between them the said top container-supporting surface and the opposite bottom surface of a trailer frame at least in areas adjacent both laterally spaced sides thereof forwardly of the wheels, and
- (2) power operated means mounting the clamp jaw members for movement relative to the mobile vehicle for moving a clamped wheeled trailer frame from its normal ground-supported horizontal position first to a position raised above ground, then to a substantially vertically extending position with its front end extending upwardly and its rear end elevated above ground for transport, then from the vertically extending lowered position for resting the frame upon its rear end in storage, and for moving a clamped wheeled trailer frame from its vertically extending lowered position in storage first to a vertically extending position with its rear end elevated above ground, then to a substantially horizontally extending position raiseed above ground, and then to a lowered substantially horizontally extending position with its wheels resting upon the ground.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.