| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 414509000 | Comprising load-engaging element reciprocably movable parallel to generally horizontal load-supporting component of vehicle for ejecting load therefrom | 24 |
| 20110064551 | PULL AND LIFT SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING ROOFING MATERIALS - The pull and lift system for transporting roofing materials includes a pull bar upon a flat bed of a truck, two rams connecting to the pull bar, controls for the rams, two pairs of mutually spaced apart legs, a table connecting between the pairs of legs, at least one ram connecting to the table, and controls for this ram. The first controls engage the pull bar against a pallet then draw it towards the table. The pull bar has an L shaped cross section with the lower portion sliding upon the flat bed and the upper portion engaging a pallet. The table has a first position coplanar with the flat bed and a second position above the flat bed and proximate a conveyor. The table elevates, while loaded with cargo, and remains level during its transition from the first position to the second position. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110236168 | RECIPROCATING SLAT FOR USE ADJACENT TO TRAILER WALL - An improved outer reciprocating floor slat for use in a truck trailer or the like. The outer floor slat is located adjacent to a trailer's side wall. The floor slat has a portion that extends laterally upwardly and outwardly until it reaches the trailer's side wall at an elevation above the normal load-carrying floor elevation of the reciprocating floor slats. The upwardly extending portion facilitates material movement away from the corner region where the reciprocating floor normally intersects the trailer's side walls. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120141240 | Garbage Truck and Self-Contained Loading and Unloading System - An elongated container of a truck has a closed front end wall and a hinged rear outlet closure, and a side infeed opening for receiving garbage. This empty container is configured to receive an elongated base upon which is mounted a reciprocating conveyor floor for moving garbage in the container outward through the opened rear closure for deposit at a garbage disposal site. The power drive mechanism for driving the reciprocating floor is located at the front end of the container and is shielded from input garbage by a deflector secured to the reciprocating floor. The deflector also serves as a pusher for compacting and moving garbage in the container out through the opened rear closure. The self-contained reciprocating floor is easily carried manually and fed through the opened rear closure and secured firmly in the truck container. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120189416 | AUTOMATED BOT WITH TRANSFER ARM - An autonomous transport vehicle is provided. The autonomous transport vehicle includes a payload bed and a transfer arm configured to extend along a first axis to transfer a pickface to and from the payload bed, the transfer arm including fingers that are independently movable along a second axis, substantially perpendicular to the first axis for picking and placing the pickface. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120195724 | SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTS - An autonomous transport robot for transporting a payload, the autonomous transport robot including a drive section assembly having at least one motor and a pair of drive wheels coupled to the motor, a frame configured to support a payload, a transfer arm connected to the frame and configured for the autonomous transfer of payload to and from the frame, and a suspension system movably connecting the drive section assembly and the frame allowing relative movement between the frame and the drive section assembly. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120219393 | MOVING HEADBOARD TRAILER EJECTOR AND FLOOR CLEANING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a detachably attachable moving headboard trailer ejector and floor cleaning apparatus for use with a self-unloading trailer having a front end, a rear end, side walls, and either a reciprocating slat conveyor floor or a conveyor belt floor. The invention comprises, in one embodiment, a base, a panel sweeper, one or more panel sweeper support members, a means for traversing the panel sweeper, a tether bar, side flanges, and a base flange. In use, the invention is placed in the front end of a self-unloading trailer and the trailer is loaded with material; when material is ejected from the trailer, the invention transverses or “travels” along the top of the moving floor and pushes the material out of the trailer's back end. The rubber flanges ensure a snug fit within the trailer and keep post ejection residual material at a minimum. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120308352 | Container-Transfer System - The invention relates to the automatically transfer of a container between a flatcar ( | 12-06-2012 |
| 20160039328 | TRAILER FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING HEAT EXCHANGER TUBE BUNDLES - An improved trailer for loading and unloading a heat exchanger tube bundle is disclosed. The trailer provides for the transport of tube bundles and includes seal pans which capture debris and other materials falling from the tube bundle during transport. The present invention also provides for the periodic placement of slideable supports under a bundle as it is pushed onto a trailer. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160194081 | INTEGRATED MULTI-FUNCTION PROPULSION BELT FOR AIR CUSHION SUPPORTED AIRCRAFT CARGO LOADING ROBOT | 07-07-2016 |
| 414510000 | Three-dimensional load-receiving portion includes movable load-underlying surface, and element comprises upright member attached to surface | 4 |
| 20100028114 | MOVING HEADBOARD TRAILER EJECTOR AND FLOOR CLEANING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a detachably attachable moving headboard trailer ejector and floor cleaning apparatus for use with a self-unloading trailer having a front end, a rear end, side walls, and either a reciprocating slat conveyor floor or a conveyor belt floor. The invention comprises, in one embodiment, a base, a panel sweeper, one or more panel sweeper support members, a means for traversing the panel sweeper, a tether bar, side flanges, and a base flange. In use, the invention is placed in the front end of a self-unloading trailer and the trailer is loaded with material; when material is ejected from the trailer, the invention “rides” along the moving floor and pushes the material out of the trailer's back end. The rubber flanges ensure a snug fit within the trailer and keep post ejection residual material at a minimum. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20120219394 | Light-weight live-floor module for trailers - The light-weight live-floor module has a floor surface, parallel cables laid on the floor surface, a length of conveyor belt laid on the cables, a movable bulkhead and a winch system for moving the belt, the cables and the bulkhead back and forth in unison, such as a shuttle. The belt has just enough length to cover the return axis and the floor surface on which goods are transported, thereby reducing any unnecessary weight in the live floor structure. The cables and the belt are wrapped over different axes for eliminating relative movement between the cables and the belt. One axis is set higher than the floor surface for easily breaking static friction under the belt. In a method for breaking static friction between a conveyor belt and a floor surface, a first segment of the belt is jolted upwardly while tension is applied in the belt. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20150375661 | MOVING HEADBOARD TRAILER EJECTOR AND FLOOR CLEANING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a detachably attachable moving headboard trailer ejector and floor cleaning apparatus for use with a self-unloading trailer having a front end, a rear end, side walls, and either a reciprocating slat conveyor floor or a conveyor belt floor. The invention comprises, in one embodiment, a base, a panel sweeper, one or more panel sweeper support members, a means for traversing the panel sweeper, a tether bar, side flanges, and a base flange. In use, the invention is placed in the front end of a self-unloading trailer and the trailer is loaded with material; when material is ejected from the trailer, the invention transverses or “travels” along the top of the moving floor and pushes the material out of the trailer's back end. The rubber flanges ensure a snug fit within the trailer and keep post ejection residual material at a minimum. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160129822 | TRAILER SIDEWALL CONSTRUCTION - A trailer for transporting bulk material has a container mounted on a chassis and wheeled suspension. The container has opposing sidewalls, a floor, a front wall, and a rear opening. The trailer further has an unloading system comprising a plow and a plow motor system. The plow is disposed in the container and shaped and sized to span substantially a transverse cross-section of the container. The plow motor system is operable to move the plow longitudinally in the container to urge or push the bulk material in the container toward and out of the rear opening of the container. At least one of the sidewalls comprises a removable panel installed longitudinally along a bottom of the sidewall, wherein an inward-facing surface of the removable panel and an inward-facing surface of the sidewall are substantially coplanar. | 05-12-2016 |
| 414511000 | Pusher moved by ram movable to different positions along load-supporting platform | 2 |
| 20140199145 | Method, System and Process for Preparing a Recyclable Material - A method for preparing material comprising the steps of providing a transport vehicle including a horizontal ejector and a basin that defines an opening, wherein the horizontal ejector is coupled to the material within the basin; loading a first material into the basin proximate the horizontal ejector; loading a second material into the basin proximate the opening; actuating the horizontal ejector for movement from a retracted position toward a deployed position; and horizontally ejecting the second material through the opening and then subsequently horizontally ejecting the first material through the opening. A system is also disclosed. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20160052439 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A MATERIAL EJECTOR SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to the spreading of a material by pushing the material from the back of a vehicle using a material ejector system whilst the vehicle is moving. The depth of the spread material and how evenly it is spread is dependent on a number of factors that can be difficult and complicated for an operator of the vehicle control. In the present disclosure the speed at which the material is ejected from the vehicle is set on the basis of a measured speed of the vehicle. | 02-25-2016 |
| 414513000 | Pusher guide means | 4 |
| 20090311085 | CONTAINER PACKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A container packer system includes a transfer base, which receives a container packer adapted for movement longitudinally between retracted and extended positions with respect to the transfer base. The transfer base includes a power subsystem with a motor or engine driving an hydraulic pump for powering hydraulic piston-and-cylinder units of the system, including a container packer piston-and-cylinder unit for hydraulically extending and retracting the container packer. The container packer generally encloses an interior adapted for receiving bulk material for transfer to a transport container, which can comprise a standard shipping container, a trailer or some other bulk material receptacle. The container packer includes a push blade assembly longitudinally movably mounted in its interior and actuated by a push blade piston-and-cylinder unit. A container packer method includes the steps of loading the interior of the container packer with bulk material in its retracted position on the transfer base, locating a transport container in alignment and behind the transfer base, hydraulically inserting part of the container packer into the transport container, hydraulically emptying the container packer of bulk material into the transport container with the push blade assembly, retracting the push blade assembly within the container packer and extracting the container packer onto the transfer base. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20130149089 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR REMOVING MATERIALS FROM VACUUM TRUCK TANKS - Systems and devices for removing materials from vacuum truck tanks are disclosed herein. An exemplary system for removing materials from a vacuum truck may include a tank having one or more walls enclosing the tank and an opening in the one or more walls to facilitate removal of materials from the tank; a blade positioned within the tank and configured to push materials towards the opening to remove or discharge collected materials from the tank; and a drive mechanism configured to selectively move the blade towards the opening in the tank. Additional systems and devices for removing materials from vacuum truck tanks are also disclosed herein. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20140023469 | AMBULANCE COT AND LOADING AND UNLOADING SYSTEM - An ambulance cot and cot loading and unloading system for an emergency vehicle comprises a cot having a head end, a base for mounting to a deck of an emergency vehicle, a track mounted for linear movement along said base, and an arm mounted for linear movement along said track from a retracted position to an extended position. The arm is and configured to engage the cot, and wherein when the track is extended along the base and the arm is extended along the track the arm is extended from the base in an extended position and is configured for lifting the cot and providing cantilevered support to the cot while in the extended position. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20160121775 | SLIDING WALL SYSTEM, STORAGE SPACE STRUCTURE AND VEHICLE - A sliding wall system for a storage space structure having a guide, a sliding wall and a drive for displacing the sliding wall along the guide, the drive including a drive cylinder, and a movement of a movable portion of the drive cylinder in a first movement direction is transmitted to the sliding wall via a first pulling means, and a movement of the movable portion of the drive cylinder in a second movement direction is transmitted to the sliding wall via a second pulling means. | 05-05-2016 |
| 414514000 | Pusher moved by flexible means | 1 |
| 414516000 | Connected to ram actuated by fluid pressure | 1 |
| 20140219755 | ACTUATING SYSTEM FOR EJECTOR OF DUMP TRUCK - An actuating system for an ejector of a dump truck is disclosed herein. The dump truck includes a load carrying container having a first end and a second end. The actuating system includes a fluid cylinder, a first pulley, a second pulley, a third pulley, a first belt, and a second belt. The first pulley coupled to a second end of the fluid cylinder. The first belt coupled to the ejector blade at one end and coupled to the second pulley at the other end. The first belt passes over the first pulley and the second pulley to pulls the ejector blade in a first direction as the fluid cylinder extends. Similarly, the second belt passes over the first pulley and the third pulley to pull the ejector blade in a second direction as the fluid cylinder retracts. | 08-07-2014 |
| 414517000 | Pusher moved by ram actuated by fluid pressure | 4 |
| 20080298941 | Charge Bucket Loading for Electric ARC Furnace Production - Loads carried by a haulage vehicle are transferred from the vehicle to a container in a manner that maintains an ordered segmentation of materials comprising each of the loads, where each segment comprises a different type of material. The container receives the load such that each segment forms a layer in the container, which in the case of a charge bucket for feeding an electric arc furnace creates a layering of the different types of material according to a desired recipe for melting scrap metal processed by the mill incorporating the furnace. The transferring of the load is implemented by a haulage truck having a rear eject body whose ejector blade pushes the segmented load out and into the container. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20120315116 | Load Truck and a Method of Offloading a Load Unit - The invention concerns moving of load units laden on pallets or load sheets. The invention provides a load truck ( | 12-13-2012 |
| 20150322975 | Control Valve for a Hydraulic System - A hydraulic system associated with an ejector truck is configured to move an ejector plate and a rear gate. The hydraulic system may cause the rear gate to begin moving before the ejector plate. As well, the hydraulic system may reduce the delay in initiating the movement of the ejector plate and the rear gate, and increase the moving speed of both the ejector plate from the retracted position to the extended position and the rear gate from the closed position to the open position. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160159262 | Horizontal Ejector Truck Body - A horizontal ejection system for a vehicle. An ejector is adapted to travel axially through the interior from the front to the back of the truck body. A hydraulic system includes a hydraulic circuit for moving the ejector, and an ejector signal processing system signals the hydraulic circuit. The ejector signal processing system includes one or more proximity switches for detecting the location of the ejector and triggering the movement of the ejector. The switches are disposed on the truck body to sense the location of both the ejector and the tailgate. As a result, the hydraulic circuit is signaled to control the hydraulic system and thereby move the ejector based on a position of the ejector and the tailgate, wherein, in combination, the ejector and the tailgate control a load of material within the truck body. | 06-09-2016 |
