Lifting and transport apparatus for transcontainers

US5803280A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Krupp Fordertechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Burkhard Mende · Essen, DE
• Andreas Baumann · Münsingen, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 4, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 8, 1998
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66C17/20
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A lifting and transport apparatus for containers has a fixed rigid horizontal beam on the lower flange of which two wheeled carriages are displaceable either together or separately to allow, in the latter case, a change in the distance between the carriages and, in the former case, displacement of the container. A cross beam on each of the carriages can carry at its ends fixed columns which guide respective lifting elements having claws at their ends engageable with the container. The entire assembly is free from cables or the like which can introduce sway.