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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2002
Fred P. Smith, Alpine, UT (US);
Todd Mendenhall, Riverton, UT (US);
Curtis B. Workman, Prineville, OR (US);
Fred P. Smith, Alpine, UT (US);
Todd Mendenhall, Riverton, UT (US);
Curtis B. Workman, Prineville, OR (US);
Smith Patents, L.L.C., Alpine, UT (US);
Abstract
A transfer system for transferring a transfer body onto a truck. The impetus to move the transfer body is provided by a driver mounted to the truck. The driver may engage a track extending along the transfer body in order to move the transfer body onto the truck. The track may be mounted to a pull bar pivotably secured near one end to the transfer body. The truck may have a dump-truck body with a continuous floor. The pull bar may be pulled underneath the floor as the transfer body is transferred onto the truck whereas the transfer body is pulled onto the floor. A latching system for a transfer module is actuated by a mechanism mounted on the truck and maintains the tailgate of the transfer body closed when remote from a truck. The mechanism may also operate a latching system latching and unlatching a tailgate secured to the body of the truck.