Tilting and lifting apparatus for vehicle bodies

US5174711A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE
• Aumund Fodererbau GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Binder · Schweinfurt, DE
• Fritz Kubler · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Dieter Herrigel · Birkenfeld, DE
• Fritz Mechthold · Krefeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 19, 1991
• Grant date: Dec 29, 1992
• Expiry date: Feb 19, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66F7/22
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A tilting and lifting apparatus for vehicle bodies for the ergonomically favorable preparation of batches of bodies in the series assembly of vehicles comprises a separate tilting device and a lifting device operable independently of the tilting device. The tilting device includes a swivelling frame which on the tilting side is swivellably guided on a pair of horizontally extending guide paths and on the lifting side on two vertically extending lifting pillars. The vehicle body is fastened rigidly on, and at a distance from, this swivelling frame, which is made as flat as possible. For the purpose of lifting this tilting device, two scissors-type lifting apparatus are disposed beneath the tilting device. The entire arrangement for the independent raising and lowering and the tilting of the body is mounted on a flat, rectangular platform on which it is possible to walk and which, in plan view, projects beyond the vehicle body to the extent of a gangway width.