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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1999
Jin Seok Beom, Incheon, KR;
Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd., Incheon, KR;
Abstract
A loader which can provide the operator with enhanced safety comprises a vehicle body carrying a canopy and a rotating vehicle axle, a seat bar mounted to the canopy for swinging movement between a raised position and a lowered, operator restraint position, a parking lever shiftable between a brake position and a release position and cooperatingly associated with the seat bar, an axle lock operatively connected to the seat bar and the parking lever and operable to lock or release the vehicle axle, and conditional force delivery mechanism for normally allowing the axle lock to brake the vehicle axle and for causing the axle lock to release the vehicle axle only when the seat bar is in the lowered position with the parking lever shifted into the release position.