Load-supporting apparatus for loads provided with a pick-up eyelet

US6036248A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Alfred Fanger · Wetter, DE
• Udo Gersemsky · Herdecke, DE
• Ralf Eising · Bochum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 14, 2000
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66C1/66
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A load-supporting apparatus, includes a housing, a load hook defining a throat area and swingably mounted in the housing for rotation in a vertical plane between a locked stand-by position in which the load hook is disengaged from a pick-up eyelet of a load and a locked load-receiving position in which the load hook engages the pick-up eyelet of the load. Operatively connected to the load hook is a centering unit for effecting a rotation of the load-bearing between the stand-by and load-receiving positions when the centering unit encounters a resistance, with the centering unit closing off the throat area of the load hook after swinging of the load hook into the load-receiving position.