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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1978
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1977
Milton J Palma, Pekin, IL (US);
Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A service rack for removing and thereafter supporting batteries from an electrically operated lift truck to permit access to vehicle components underlying the batteries and including a support bed having opposed ends and including a pair of spaced apart side rails, a plurality of rollers journalled between the rails along the length thereof and having peripheries extending above the upper edges of each of the rails with the axes of rotation of the rollers being generally transverse to the rails, an elongated leg structure, a connection for selectively securing an end of the support bed to the leg structure at any desired position thereon with the leg structure generally transverse to the support bed, a gripper at the other end of the support bed for securing the other end in elevated relation to the side of a lift truck, and a winch mounted on the leg structure for pulling a battery pack off of a lift truck to which the rack may be secured.