A goods movement trailer includes a storage cavity having a first 20 and second 22 vertically spaced floors defining upper 26 and lower 24 storage cavity portions. The base floor includes a change in angle 17, increasing the height 19/19 between the lower and upper floors. The upper floor may include a change in angle 21 nearer the rear end 12, or vertically above the base floor angle change. A second disclosed trailer comprises two decks diverging away from each other and away from the roof in direction towards the rear end. A third disclosed trailer comprises a moveable upper floor, which may be vertically lowered for loading and unloading (figure 3a). A fourth disclosed trailer comprises an upper floor angularly offset from the roof, wherein the distance between the floor and the roof progressively increases towards the rear end. A fifth disclosed trailer comprises a tail lift (82, figure 8), wherein an external platform (84) moves upwardly and downwardly along at least part of the access opening height, and both external (84) and internal (86) platform moves vertically along at least part of the access opening height.
Improvements to goods movement apparatus
2019-01-23
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch