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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2023
Textron Systems Corporation, Hunt Valley, MD (US);
Matthew Keith Dupre, Slidell, LA (US);
Richard Earl Newman, III, Chalmette, LA (US);
Glenn Michael Hauptmann, Diamondhead, MS (US);
William Keith Dubose, Pensacola, FL (US);
Textron Systems Corporation, Hunt Valley, MD (US);
Abstract
A roller-and-rail cargo handling system that includes tracked rollers and side rails for receiving cargo pallets. A trolley system is used to move the pallets along the tracked rollers, which includes a trolley movable along a trolley track by one or more cables. The trolley includes (1) a body sized and configured for sliding beneath the pallet located on the tracked rollers, and (2) a pawl in a cavity of the body which is mounted for rotation between closed and open positions. In the open position the pawl extends above an upper surface of the body to engage a cutout of a pallet and exert a moving force thereto, and in the closed position the pawl is sufficiently within the cavity to permit the trolley to slide beneath the pallet without engagement thereof.