Car-carrier with each wheel-train equipped with its own carrying cross-structures
AssigneeLohr S.A.
InventorsChristian Fity, Jean-Luc Andre
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Abstract
Car-carrier with each wheel-train equipped with its own carrying cross-structures. In this car carrier, the load levels (15) and (16) are composed of two side-rails (18) and (19,) which can be moved vertically along frame posts. The said side-rails are fitted with sustaining cross-structures (24) and (25) that can be moved lengthwise and can be blocked in any given position so as to create between the position of two of them a sufficiently wide interval to receive the wheelbase of each car to be carried. The lowest level (4) is realized by vertically mobile platforms, that are hinged together.
Claims9
A car-carrier adapted to carry cars of differently sized wheel diameters and differently sized wheel bases, comprising in combination
- a plurality of substantially vertical frame posts spaced from one another horizontally in a longitudinal direction,
- a plurality of loading levels spaced from one another in a vertical direction, and including a lower loading level, an intermediate loading level, and an upper loading level, each of said upper and intermediate loading levels including two side rails spaced from one another along said longitudinal direction, and being vertically mobile along said frame posts,
- a plurality of load-carrying cross-structures movable along said longitudinal direction on said side rails, and fastenable at any point along the longitudinal length of said side rails,
- each cross-structure having two tubular elements extending transverse to said longitudinal direction, and converging from respective ends thereof towards the middle so as to form continuously variable openings in which the car wheels are received,
- means to provide between a pair of said cross-structures an empty space corresponding to the wheel base of a car, sufficient to contain the wheel base placed on a corresponding one of said loading levels, whereby the car wheels of the wheel base are embedded in variable openings of said pair of said cross structures, yet are free of any additional constraint, and
- said lower loading level including a stationary central platform and two movable platforms, said movable platforms being hingeably connected to said central portion along respective joints extending transversely to said longitudinal direction,
- said side rails of said intermediate and upper loading levels being vertically movable along said frame posts so that they may be superimposed on said lower level before loading, then may be loaded by placing the cars on said cross-structures of said side rails, and then may be lifted along said frame posts.
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