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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1977
Yasumasa Ninomiya, Urawa, JP;
Yasuo Nabeshima, Kudamatsu, JP;
Kengo Sugiyama, Abiko, JP;
Yozo Hibino, Ibaraki, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., , JP;
Japanese National Railways, , JP;
Abstract
An apparatus with sensor mounted on a spreader for handling articles of a rectangular parallelepiped shape for detecting elements in plate form attached to both sides of such handling articles and both sides of the handling article loading and unloading bed of freight cars and trucks for conveying such handling articles, in order to position the spreader by detecting the detecting plate by the sensor. The sensor detects the deflections of the spreader with respect to the detecting plate, and the spreader is slightly moved for correcting the deflections so as to accurately position the spreader with respect to the article or the bed of a freight car or a truck.