The shipping container straddle carrier has a plurality of portions which bear the weight of the shipping container, and a plurality of wheeled structures between the weight-bearing portions and the ground, one wheeled structure supporting each weight-bearing portion above the ground. The wheels on each wheeled structure are connected to the wheeled structure at locations that are spaced apart from each other in a lengthwise axis of the wheeled structure. Each of the wheels is steerable relative to the wheeled structure to which it is connected. Each wheeled structure is pivotable relative to the weight-bearing portion which it supports. The wheeled structures can be oriented with lengthwise axes parallel to the straddle carrier's forward direction to enable the straddle carrier to move in the straddle carrier's forward direction, also with the ability to steer one or more wheels; and also lengthwise axes perpendicular to the straddle carrier's forward direction and with the wheels oriented so as to enable the straddle carrier to move perpendicular to the straddle carrier's forward direction.
Straddle carriers
2016-09-08
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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|British Library Online Contents | 1997
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