Aircraft towing vehicle

US6283696A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• FMC International AG

Inventors

• Gregor Trummer · Aschering, DE
• Hartmut Mann · Bergkirchen, DE
• Thomas Fuchs · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 7, 2000
• Grant date: Sep 4, 2001
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64F1/227
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An aircraft towing vehicle includes a lifting and locking device for the nose landing gear of the aircraft being towed. The device has two support elements which reach behind the nose wheels and can be displaced along straight-line guiding rails by a linear drive so as to pull the nose wheels of the aircraft onto a lifting platform and to lock it into place thereon. At the end of each guiding rail a guiding pin is provided which, in cooperation with a guiding track embodied in the support element, controls the rotation of the support element into a release position in which the nose landing gear is able to pass through. By a reverse movement, the rotation of the support elements are put into the operation position in which the support elements reach behind the nose landing gear.