Toyo Umpanki Co., Ltd.

Koji Suenaga

Koji Hirose

Osamu Uno

Toshinori Nakatani

A restraining device for limiting forward movement of an operator of a wheeled mechanical vehicle in case of a collision includes two restraining bars pivotally mounted at opposite sides of a seat and extending toward one another. The restraining bars are mounted so as to pivot in a vertical plane about axes which are parallel to each other and lie on opposite sides of the seat. The restraining bars are synchronized or interlocked so that when one bar is raised or lowered by the occupant of the seat the other bar is also moved. A lock or retention device on one side of the seat holds the restraining bars in the lowered or raised position after they have been positioned by the occupant. The vehicle may be a forklift or front end loader and the run controls and load controls of the vehicle are interlocked with the synchronizing mechanism so that the run and load controls cannot be operated when the restraining bars are not in the occupant restraining position.

Seat occupant restraining device

A loader includes a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine, a radiator for cooling an engine cooling liquid, a cooling fan and a radiator for cooling a working oil all of which are accommodated within an engine room. One of both the radiators is so disposed as to face a rear maintenance opening of the engine room, and the other radiator is so disposed as to face an upper maintenance opening of the engine room. Cooling air is sucked from an air-induction port of an upper cover member and is discharged from an air-discharge port of a rear cover member after passing through the other radiator, the cooling fan, the one radiator in order.

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Osaka, Japan

Koji Suenaga