Crown Equipment Corporation

Patrick A Soder

Rainer Bernhard Teufel

Michael P Gallagher

Dean E Davis

Daniel W Kahlig

Keith G Bornhorst

Larry A Niemeyer

Forrest A Haverfield

Henry J Rahn

Danny L Dunlap

Michael A Heitkamp

Martin E Romer

John A Turner

Douglas W Meyers

A pallet clamping device is mounted between forks of a material handling vehicle. The device clamps to a stringer of a pallet using a pair of horizontally moveable jaws. The jaws are resiliently forced toward one another for clamping a stringer so that a clamped pallet will not move off the forks. The jaws are mounted for pivoting and sliding motion relative to mounting pins which, together with links coupling the jaws to a base of the device, tighten jaw closure if a pallet moves away from the forks. The pivoting and sliding motion of the jaws helps align the jaws with pallets not perfectly aligned with the vehicle. Depression of a foot pedal moves the jaws from a closed position to a latched open position for receiving a pallet stringer. The jaws can also be moved to an unlatched open position for receiving a greater width center stringer. Upon release of the operating device from the unlatched open position, the jaws move toward their closed position.

Pallet clamping device

Power unit for a fork lift truck

A materials handling vehicle is provided with a frame including an operator's compartment having an entrance, a drive mechanism supported on the frame, a material handling unit coupled to the frame, and a device including an actuator located across the threshold of the entrance of the operator's compartment. The device generates an alert signal when a portion of an operator's body engages the actuator.

Device for a materials handling vehicle

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Sidney, OH, United States of America

Patrick A Soder