A gas tank handling attachment 1 for a truck mounted forklift (TMFL) has a frame 7 with a pair of spaced apart uprights 9, 11 bridged by a bracing cross-member 13 and a means to releasably engage a fork carriage on the frame, such as quick-hitch assembly 15, 17. The frame also has a pair of pivotably mounted clamping arms 19, 21 which when stowed are parallel to the uprights and in use are moved orthogonal to the uprights by a pair of pivoting rams (41 fig.6). The clamping arms may have an elbow 25 and may have pads 27, 29 with rubber pads 31 to hold the tank. The frame may be attached to a TMFL via a pantograph 33 and may also have tine pockets 51, 53 (Fig.8) to allow a second fork-lift to remove the apparatus from the TMFL when the quick hitch assembly is released.
A gas tank attachment for a truck mounted forklift
2021-09-15
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B66F HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD , Hub-, Verhol- oder Schubvorrichtungen, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen, z.B. Vorrichtungen mit unmittelbarer Krafteinwirkung auf die Last |