Detachable truck body and handling mechanism
AssigneeMcNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorRonald E. Christenson
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Abstract
A container handling apparatus for receiving, positioning, engaging and releasing exchangeable chassis or sub-frame mounted containers, which may be truck bodies, or the like, capable of readily locking and unlocking a truck body or sub-frame to a supporting chassis is disclosed that is self-contained on the chassis. A truck body or container which may be self-supporting is also disclosed.
Claims11
A mechanized, self-contained vehicle-mounted system for handling the exchange positioning and tilting of detachable modular containers to be carried by a vehicle chassis, as material hauling truck bodies, including integral means for latching/locking and receiving/separating said container, said system comprising:
- (a) vehicle chassis for supporting a modular container;
- (b) container mounting sub-frame carried on said chassis;
- (c) sub-frame operating mechanism connected between said sub-frame and said chassis for manipulating said sub-frame relative to said chassis, said sub-frame operating mechanism further comprising means for raising and lowering said sub-frame parallel to and relative to said chassis and for tilting said sub-frame relative to said chassis by raising a front end relative to the rear end thereof;
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- (d) container manipulation mechanism carried by said sub-frame for positioning said container along said chassis and said sub-frame, said container manipulation mechanism further comprising reciprocally operating pawl mechanisms including spaced oppositely directed spring-biased independently retractable pawls mounted on a longitudinally reciprocating inner frame slidably mounted in said sub-frame and including a bi-directional linear actuating device for powering said inner frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.