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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2009
Denis Gleason, Bowmanville, CA;
Andrew Barrett, Bowmanville, CA;
Denis Gleason, Bowmanville, CA;
Andrew Barrett, Bowmanville, CA;
Nordock, Inc., Bowmanville, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A dock leveler with a deck and an extendable lip that hangs pendant when the deck is in a stored position. A lip extension mechanism engages when the deck is raised to a raised or cocked position. As the deck is lowered to an intermediate transition position, the extension mechanism extends the lip to a fully extended position. At the transition position, the lip extension mechanism automatically disengages and a lip locking mechanism automatically and simultaneously locks and holds the lip in its fully extended position. When the deck is further lowered so that the lip comes to rest on a truck trailer, the locking mechanism automatically released or unlocked. The lip returns to its pendant position when the deck is raised from the truck bed. After the truck pulls away from the dock, the deck is lowered to its stored position.