Delaware Capital Formation, Inc.

Chief Automotive Technologies, Inc.

Jeffery A Hess

Jeffrey L Dobbins

Daniel R McClellan

Adam J Koehler

Dean L Mish

Richard H Nagorski

Randy L Gard

Charles A Schulte

Nathan Adams

Robert W Thomas

Marco Tulio Nossa Reyes

Gregory Potter

Richard Keefer

Gregory Richards

A trolley () for use with a frame-straightening bench () and allowing for moving a vehicle into the bench () for initial repair; moving the vehicle out of the bench () and into holding area to allow for curing or other time-consuming repair processes or operations, thereby making the bench () available for other uses; and moving the vehicle back into the bench () for additional repair or final confirmation of a previous repair. A repair jig () is coupleable with the trolley () for facilitating the alignment and otherwise proper positioning of a portion of the vehicle being repaired. The trolley () can also be used with a lift () to separate the vehicle's body from its frame ().

Dockable trolley for vehicle frame-straightening bench

A vehicle straightening bench having a work platform with an inner track and an outer track. The platform has side edges and end edges with curved corners therebetween. A pulling tower assembly is movably mounted to the inner and outer tracks via a carriage having a generally triangular shaped wheel arrangement.

Multiple movable carriages with multi-radius tracks and tilted rollers

A vehicle-straightening bench ( ) is utilized to apply pulling forces to a damaged vehicle chassis to restore the damaged chassis to an original configuration. The bench includes a vehicle platform ( ) with a carriage track ( ) having a plurality of carriage assemblies ( ) movably received by the carriage track ( ). Each carriage assembly ( ) supports a pulling assembly ( ) for applying the pulling forces. A trapezoidal carriage body ( ) of the carriage assembly ( ) rolls in the carriage track ( ), and the carriage assembly also includes a tower positioning mechanism ( ) to hold the pulling assemblies ( ) in place while the carriage body ( ) is are rolled on the track ( ). The carriage assembly ( ) also includes a locking mechanism ( ) to lock them in place during a vehicle a pull. A force arm ( ) is extended between the pulling mechanism ( ) and the platform ( ), so that the carriage assembly (100) is not the only force transmission path between the pulling assembly ( ) and the bench ( ). The automated control system ( ) of the bench ( ) utilizes two hydraulic pumps( ) to power front and back lifts ( ), respectively. Only one of the pumps ( ) is used by the pulling assemblies ( ). A PLC ( ) and a remote control ( ) are used to control the bench ( ).

Vehicle-straightening bench with movable carriages for mounting pulling assemblies

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Grand Island, NE, United States of America

Jeffery A Hess