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US 5,122,027 AGranted
Carrier for containers
AssigneeOsaka Taiyu Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshikazu Tabayashi
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Abstract
A carrier comprising a lift bar provided on the body of the carrier and movable upward and downward, a connecting member pivotably connected between an upwardly driving cylinder device and the lift bar, an upper claw provided on the connecting member, and a lower claw provided on the lift bar and cooperative with the upper claw for holding the upper rim of a container. The load of the container acting on the lower claw pulls down the upper claw for the two claws to clamp the container upper rim to transport the container as lifted.
Claims5
A container carrier comprising:
- a carrier body,
- a hollow post provided upright on the body and having a vertical groove therein through a front wall thereof,
- a cylinder device having a cylinder and a piston rod, the cylinder being attached at a lower end to the carrier body and disposed inside the post,
- a lift bar upwardly and downwardly movably disposed in proximity to an outer surface of the front wall of the post and provided at its lower portion with a contact portion adapted for contact with a trunk of the container to be transported and roller means rollable in contact with the outer surface of the post front wall,
- a connecting member pivotably connected between the piston rod of the cylinder device and an upper end of the lift bar, and
- clamp means comprising a first clamp element projecting from an upper portion of the lift bar and a second clamp element provided on a forward end of the connecting member, the first and second clamp elements being cooperative to clamp an upper rim of the container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.