FREIGHT CONTAINERS HANDLING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC B66B9/00 B66B11/06 B66F7/02 

FIELD: mechanical engineering; load handling facilities.

SUBSTANCE: invention is designed for loading and unloading of containers through hatches of cargo aircraft. Proposed device has load platform, vertical stepless shaft accommodating posts with plate installed for vertical displacement, traction mechanism and cable-and-sheave system. Posts are made telescopic, their inner sections being rigidly secured on plate, passed through holes in plate and arranged in outer sections. Outer sections pass through holes in shaft cover, and they rest by lower end faces through movable guide bushings against plate. Telescopic posts are furnished with mechanisms connecting inner sections with outer sections. Sheaves are fitted on plate through which flexible member pass. Some ends of flexible members are secured in brackets installed on inner surface of shaft, and other ends are secured on plate.

EFFECT: reduced vertical dimensions of shaft and metal usage of device.

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