Device for displaceably supporting a load
US3985064A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | May 19, 1975 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 19, 1995 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB62D57/00
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A device for displaceably supporting a body in relation to a support surface comprising at least two elastic elements positionable between the support surface and a surface of the body and separately expansible and contractible in a direction towards and from the support surface and the body surface and means for alternately expansing and contracting the elastic elements, the elastic elements thereby being alternately loaded by and unloaded from the weight of the body, the body being displaceable substantially parallel with the support surface by means of elastic shearing in the elastic element at the moment loaded by and supporting the body, and the means for expansing and contracting the elements being adapted to contract and unload the loaded element after a predetermined deformation thereof and to expanse the other element to a loaded position, the unloaded element thereby elastically resuming its non-deformed position.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.