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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 1979
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Woodrow W Portz, Solon, OH (US);
Jack E Fathauer, Roxboro, NC (US);
Assignee:
RPC Corporation, Roxboro, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C / ; B66F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
294 / ; 414608 ; 294 / ;
Abstract
A cargo container handling implement, i.e., a grappler spreader, having the customary four grappling arms for the bottom lifting of piggy-back trailers and four latch units for interlocking with the top latch receptacles of cargo containers, and, in addition, a mechanism by which the latch units are adjustable with respect to the remainder of the grappler spreader in its lateral direction to enable the implement to support a container with the vertical plane of its outwardly offset side beyond the lateral extremities of the adjacent pair of upwardly stored grappling arms.