An apparatus for the automatic loading and unloading of an elevator cabin equipped with at least one transport carriage which travels along with the elevator cabin, the transport carriage being displaceable at a story of the building out of and into the elevator cabin respectively, by means of a buckling-resistant driven roller chain trained about guides below the floor of the elevator cabin and engaging with an entrainment member of the transport carriage. With the transport carriage located at...

An attachment for use on a fork lift truck includes a base portion, and stabilizer bars movable relative thereto, laterally of the truck. The attachment also includes a platform movable relative to the base means laterally of the truck, and actuating means, including pulley and cable means, are utilized to initially move the stabilizer bars laterally of the truck, for engagement with a storage rack for stabilizing the fork lift truck. The platform is then shifted laterally to shift the load ther...

The present application discloses a method and apparatus for receiving a flow of can ends automatically separating from said flow a stack having a predetermined number of can ends. The disclosure further includes apparatus for conveying the counted stack of ends to a bagging station wherein bagging can be effected either manually or automatically. In addition, the present disclosure relates to novel automatic bagging apparatus, as well as apparatus for receiving and storing the packaged ends fro...

Apparatus for the storage of a wheelchair on top of a motor vehicle, comprised of a ramp member resting upon the ground upon which said wheelchair is loaded by an individual sitting within said motor vehicle, the ramp being attached by beam members to means for raising the ramp from the ground level onto the top of said vehicle and means for lowering said ramp and wheelchair from the top of said vehicle to ground level, the lowering and raising means controlled from within said vehicle. The appa...

A material handling device comprises a roller conveyor component having rollers which are separated by gaps; a cage component which includes rows of uprights, the spacing and the thickness of the uprights in each row being such as to permit their insertion into said gaps and their movement through the gaps; crosspieces interconnecting the uprights of one row only with corresponding uprights of other rows, the crosspieces extending parallel to the axes of the rollers and being insertable in the g...

A vehicle wheelchair lift for loading and unloading an occupant confined to a wheelchair. The lift having a wheelchair platform which is folded vertically inside the vehicle and adjacent a vehicle door. When the lift is in use, the vehicle door is opened and the platform is lowered to a horizontal position outside the door opening. The wheelchair occupant is then wheeled onto the lift by a wheelchair attendant and the platform is lowered to the ground surface.

A dumbwaiter loading and unloading apparatus employing a motor driven belt unit is mounted on the dumbwaiter platform and arranged to project a carriage outwardly of the platform at a selected landing level. The carriage is provided with a moving belt reversibly driven to cooperate with a worktable stationed at a selected landing level. The worktable is provided with a slave belt that is driven by the belt drive in the dumbwaiter apparatus in a direction to move a load out of the unit onto the w...

An automobile cloth roll loading apparatus including an inclined roll supporting platform, a stationary barrier cooperating with the lower end portion of the platform, and means for raising the platform to a dumping or discharge position above the barrier and for lowering the platform to a roll storage position in cooperation with the barrier. A further feature of the apparatus is a cloth roll storage truck having at least one roll supporting cradle adjacent the upper end of the platform, and pi...

A machine which takes upright stacks of flat articles such as carton blanks or the like from a pallet, straightens each stack, and feeds the articles from the stack in a shingled stream. The machine includes a crane which is programmed to pick up stacks from a plurality of locations on the pallet. Each stack is transferred to a conveyor which first advances the stack to a stack straightening device which tips the stack from upright to horizontal position to separate articles in the stack and str...

A loader comprising an upright frame having only two elevators or rams for transferring parts from one to the other and raising them to a point where they may be discharged. One ram moves up while the other moves down. They meet at a midpoint where parts are transferred from one to the other after which one ram goes down to pick up another load of parts and the other rises to an upper limit where the parts are discharged. A simple rack and gear drive is employed. Switches are provided to reverse...