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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1981
Filed:
May. 31, 1979
Quinten K Fadness, Boring, OR (US);
RayGo, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A spreader frame assembly for connecting onto large, elongate loads such as shipping containers and trailer vans for lifting and moving such loads. The assembly includes a trolley mounted on a straddle carrier with a spreader frame supported beneath the trolley. A positioning column descends from the trolley and makes a swivel connection at the middle of the spreader frame, and a pair of load lifting hydraulic cylinders mounted on the trolley connect at widely spaced points with the spreader frame. A rotate cylinder between the spreader frame and positioning column rotates the frame around a vertical axis, a tilt cylinder also between the spreader frame and column tilts the frame around a horizontal axis, and a translating cylinder between the trolley and column pivots the column to translate the spreader frame.