Marathon Letourneau Company

Erwin F Stoldt

Dwight Baker

Richard D Baney

Paul L Kelsey

Glenn A Shankle

A method and apparatus for load weight determination of the truck including the steps of loading the truck, sensing the pressure of the tilting cylinders to determine the amount of load, indicating the load weight, providing feedback on the affect of variations in the center of gravity of load to correct the load weight determined and providing a corrected load weight. The apparatus includes a tilting bed truck with the bed hinged to the truck frame and tilted to its dumping position by tilting cylinders, a sensing device for sensing the pressure in the tilting cylinders when they are supporting the bed above its support pad, a data processor having data on truck loading and receiving information on the pressure sensed by the sensing device and having an output to indicating devices of the load weight.

Truck load weighing method and apparatus

A self-mobile electrically powered machine is provided with an electric cable for supplying power to the machine. The cable is suspended between a rotatable turret, which may include a reel, on the machine and a portable cable tower spaced from the machine. From the cable tower, the cable extends to a remote power source. Constant cable tension is provided by the turret reel, or by a sheaving arrangement on the cable tower. The cable tower base is provided with a slot whereby the machine is used to move the tower to different locations while still being supplied with electricity therefrom.

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Longview, TX, United States of America

Erwin F Stoldt