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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1981
Filed:
May. 04, 1979
Jose M Garcia, Miami, FL (US);
Equipment Company of America, Hialeah, FL (US);
Abstract
A drum lifter comprises a base including a pair of parallel spaced fork tubes adapted for receiving at one end and positioning over a pair of vertically adjustable forks of a lift truck. A support plate spans the other ends of the tubes and mounts thereover a transverse support pipe with spaced stops thereon. A pair of spaced sleeves are mounted upon the pipe between the stops, each sleeve having an upright jaw support plate secured thereto. A pair of laterally spaced opposed arcuate drum-engaging jaws project forwardly from the sleeves and are pivotally mounted upon the jaw support plates for rotation upon vertical axes. A stop plate is mounted on and extends laterally outward of each jaw and is engageable with the support plate when the jaws are in a horizontal position for holding the jaws to operatively clamp a drum therebetween. The jaws are adapted for outward opening movement for encompassing a drum, after the jaw support plates have been rotated upwardly on a horizontal axis disengaging the stop plates from the support plate. A modified drum lifter includes an elongated stop plate spaced between the jaws and opposed thereto whereby a pair of drums of the same or a different diameter may be gripped and lifted.