Abstract:
Adaptor structure is provided for towing a pintle hitch trailer behind a truck having a fifth wheel ball mount. The adaptor structure includes a mounting plate constructed and arranged to be mounted to a surface of a tongue of a trailer to be towed. The mounting plate includes a mounting tab extending from opposing ends of the mounting plate. Beam structure is provided having first and second ends. The first end is removably coupled to the mounting tabs by a pin connection. The second end includes a fifth wheel ball receptacle constructed and arranged to engage a fifth wheel ball mount of a truck. A tension arm is coupled at one end thereof to the beam structure at a position between the first and second ends of the beam structure. Another end of the tension arm defines a pintle hitch coupler constructed and arranged to engage a pintle eye of the trailer.
Abstract:
Heavy equipment trailer having a main deck with a rear gooseneck which is connected to a turntable mounted on a lifting tower carried by a dolly positioned to the rear of the deck. The lifting tower is mounted in a box which is suspended between the side rails of the dolly frame in a manner permitting the box to be shifted longitudinally of the rails to adjust weight distribution between wheel sets at the front and rear of the dolly.
Abstract:
An improved method for unloading break bulk goods from a ship and a cargo transfer carrier for use in the unloading of break bulk goods. The cargo carrier is comprised of a plurality of longitudinal frame members connected by a plurality of cross members with decking affixed thereto to form a horizontal carrier bed. The bed is of sufficient size to accommodate the placement of at least ten, but preferably 14 sling loads of break bulk goods thereon with the allowance for a perimeter work area. A gooseneck portion with tractor attachment means is supported by a first end of the bed and a plurality of wheel assemblies are mounted at the opposite end of the bed. The method comprises positioning the cargo carrier in the debarkation area beneath an unloading position of the ship's crane. At least ten sling loads of break bulk goods are transferred from the ship to the cargo carrier in a single operation. The loaded cargo carrier is removed from the debarkation area and the process is repeated with additional cargo carriers.
Abstract:
Two parallel main steel beams extend from front to rear of a trailer which beams terminate at their upper web edges with aligned aluminum-extruded H-shaped beams having a depending leg which is bolted to a steel beam web. A plurality of aluminum-extruded upper floor sections including a floor member and depending beams are interlocked and welded to one another at their edges to form a floor assembly. Side rails extend from front to rear of the trailer and have an upper leg interlocked with and welded to the upper floor assembly. A lower side rail leg is glued to a bottom aluminum sheet skin member. A rigid polyurethane foam layer is within each of the volumes formed by the bottom skin layers, the side rails, the H-beams and the upper floor assembly to form a composite platform structure which resists bending and shear loads. Braces further support the steel beams and platform assembly.
Abstract:
A ground transporter for air launched missiles. The transporter is constructed by bolting two pairs of "H" beams across a flat-bed trailer. The bolts are applied through holes in the bottom flanges of the "H" beams. A pair of missile handling units are then bolted to each pair of "H" beams. The missile handling units are bolted at each of their ends to the top flanges of the "H" beams. Steel bushings add structural support to the bolt holes through the wooden beams of the trailer bed and hillside washers are used on the bolts through the "H" beams and the side "C" channel rails of the trailer bed.
Abstract:
A trailer having a relatively low-slung flat frame bed supported on wheels and an elevated front coupling member joined by connecting means of unique construction to a front hitch tongue on the frame bed for rotatable connection to a trailer hitch coupling ball on a towing vehicle.
Abstract:
To facilitate transporting heavy equipment on forest service roads and the like by means of a low-bed trailer having a gooseneck drawbar, the customary fifth wheel pivotal connection between the towing tractor and trailer is immobilized relative to horizontal or side pivoting and the pivotal connection between the tractor and trailer is placed rearwardly of the tractor adjacent the bottom of the gooseneck. As a result, the tendency for the trailer to "cut the corner" on a sharp curve is substantially eliminated and the trailer will substantially follow the tracks of the tractor around such corners.
Abstract:
A trailer to be towed by a pickup truck or the like having a rear cargo space mounting a fifth wheel coupling and adapted primarily for transporting vehicles, such as racing cars. The trailer has a frame with a rear, relatively low cargo bed for supporting a vehicle to be transported, a front elevated hitch tongue for pivotal connection to the fifth wheel coupling of the pickup truck. The longitudinal members of the frame are bent to a unique S-shape or gooseneck shape and have curved front extremities joined to one another in such a way as to minimize stress concentrations in the members and provide a relatively strong and rigid frame.
Abstract:
An improved trailer towing hitch device in which the towing bar is fastened to the tractor directly above the tractor rear axle, with combined lift and anti-sway bars which are attached to the conventional ''''A'''' frame trailer hitch unit, said anti-sway bars being readily disconnected from the tractor towing mechanism, independently of the ball and socket connection of the trailer hitch to the towing bar.
Abstract:
A retractable side frame for flat bed trailer in which a Ushaped frame has side members that are slidably received in channels which in turn are removably mounted adjacent to the sides of the flat bed. The U-shaped frame has telescopic legs which may be extended to contact the ground when it is desired to retract the side U-shaped side frame and thus expose the flat bed so that items can be loaded onto or removed from the flat bed along the sides thereof. A modified form of the device discloses mechanical means for retracting the side frame and another modified form shows that the U-shaped retractable side frame as well as the two channels that receive the side members of the rectractable frame can be formed in sections so that the device can be readily disassembled and stored when it is desired to use the flat bed trailer without the retractable side frame.