Apparatus for weighing a pallet with a load thereon for use with a vehicle having tines or the like
OwnerJacques C. Boubilleinventor
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Abstract
A weighing apparatus for a vehicle having tines in which a ramp is mounted on each tine in front of and in spaced relation to a weighing load bearing plate. The ramp and the confronting weighing load bearing plate are not mechanically joined. Below each weighing load bearing plate are load cells for emitting changes in signals representative of the weight of a load on the weighing load bearing plates. As the load advances toward the weighing load bearing plates, the ramps attenuate excessive forces and shock resulting from the load advancing onto the weighing load bearing plates. As a consequence thereof, the load cells are not subject to the excessive shocks or forces of an advancing load.
Claims23
A weighing apparatus for a vehicle having tines or the like comprising:
- (a) a weighing platform movable in response to a load thereon, said weighing platform having a front end and a rear end as viewed from the direction of travel of the load;
- (b) at least one load cell supported below said weighing platform and responsive to the movement of said weighing platform for emitting an electrical signal representative of the weight of the load on said weighing platform;
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- (c) a ramp mounted on said tine in front of and spaced from the front end of said weighing platform for attenuating excessive forces resulting from a load advancing toward said weighing platform, said ramp being mechanically disjoined from said weighing platform for attenuating excessive forces resulting from an advancing load to reduce the transmission of excessive forces to said weighing platform.
A weighing apparatus for a pallet truck or the like having tines or the like for weighing a pallet with a load thereon, said weighing apparatus comprising:
- (a) a plurality of weighing load bearing plates in spaced relation movable in response to a pallet with a load thereon, each of said weighing load bearing plates having a front end and a rear end as viewed in the direction of travel of the pallet with the load thereon;
- (b) a plurality of load cells disposed below said weighing load bearing plates, respectively, and responsive to the movement of said weighing load bearing plates, respectively, for emitting changes in electrical signals representative of the weight of the pallet with the load thereon;
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- (c) a plurality of ramps mounted on said tines, respectively, in front of and spaced from said weighing load bearing plates, respectively, for attenuating excessive forces of the pallet with the load thereon advancing toward said weighing load bearing plates, each of said ramps being mechanically disjoined from its associated weighing load bearing plate for attenuating excessive forces resulting from an advancing load without the transmission of excessive forces from said ramps to said weighing load bearing plates, respectively.
A weighing apparatus for a vehicle having tines or the like comprising:
- (a) a weighing platform movable in response to a load thereon, said weighing platform having a front end and a rear end as viewed from the direction of travel of the load;
- (b) at least one load cell supported below said weighing platform and responsive to the movement of said weighing platform for emitting an electrical signal representative of the weight of the load on said weighing platform;
- (c) a shock absorber disposed below said weighing platform and above said load cell for protecting said load cell from excessive forces and for providing a medium through which said forces are transmitted to said load cell from said weighing platform, said shock absorber comprising a layer of shock absorbing material between metallic plates;
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- (d) means mechanically securing said shock absorbing material between said metallic plates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.