Aircraft towing vehicle

US5308212A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• KraussMaffei GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Pollner · Munich, DE
• Gregor Trummer · Aschering, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 24, 1992
• Grant date: May 3, 1994
• Expiry date: Sep 24, 2012

Classification

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

Abstract

An aircraft towing vehicle including a chassis formed with a recess receiving a towing device for securing a nose wheel of an aircraft and including a transversely tiltable bearing frame, a vertically displaceable and longitudinally swingable lifting cradle provided with a pair of telescopic traction arms having respective gripping devices on respective rearward ends, the arms being longitudinally displaceable and adapted to swing about respective transverse axes, bringing thereby the gripping devices upwardly to engage the circumference of the nose wheel above an axle thereof.