Aircraft-towing tractor

US4632625A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• KraussMaffei GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Reinhard Schuller · Munich, DE
• Gerhard Koch · Nagold, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 17, 1984
• Grant date: Dec 30, 1986
• Expiry date: May 17, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S180/904
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The aircraft-towing tractor which comprises a rearwardly open fork within which a frame is mounted so as to be raised and lowered. Telescopingly extensible shanks of the frame reach rearwardly to carry gripper arms behind the nosewheel assembly of an aircraft so that the assembly is drawn into the opening of the fork and is retained thereagainst a front shoe. A retaining claw can be swung into place from above and the frame raised.