LOADER Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: materials handling equipment. SUBSTANCE: loader has frame with horizontal turntable installed over self-propelled chassis. Turntable carries boom made up of telescopic sections coupled by joints with horizontal axles. Rod of one section is made in form of base which carries levers coupled with load-gripping device which can be made in form of forks, bucket, pusher-blade, plough, clamshell or stump puller. Fitted on axle of load-gripping device is sprocket engaged with chain whose one end is fastened on fixed levers and other end, on movable levers which provides turning of load-gripping device or its member when movable levers are shifted. Sheave is secured on one of boom sections. Winch wire rope with hook is reeved in sheave. Load dumping platform body is mounted on chassis. Platform body is installed for turning in vertical plane. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 5 cl, 2 dwg