A trolley for suspending a weight from an overhead track having a pair of spaced, parallel rails or comprising an I beam. The trolley comprises a pair of slide members slidable along the track; friction elements locatable below the track; and arms interconnecting the slide members and the friction elements to suspend a weight therefrom whereby on suspension of a weight from the interconnecting arms at least the friction elements are moved towards the track to lock the trolley in a preselected po...

A trolley rail section includes an elongated housing wherein a conductor junction assembly is retained by virtue of its connection to an elongated conductor within the same housing and with the cooperation of the conductor of an adjacent connected trolley rail section such that the unitary conductor and junction assembly may be assembled into or disassembled from their housing according to a method of assembly when the respective trolley rail section is disconnected from other trolley rail secti...

A cleaning trolley comprising a stand movable on wheels, provided with a table and a vibrating suction box arranged therein, said suction box having a regulating block for regulating the operating length of the suction box, and said stand also carrying a vacuum cleaning unit with a lid-closed container for collecting dust and scrap particles and a suction assembly. According to the invention the lid is provided with a disc-shaped switching means for the suction path, which is pivotably journalle...

A hollow trolley pole associated with an electrically propelled vehicle has an upper end portion and a lower end portion. A passageway extends downwardly through the trolley pole from the upper end portion to the lower end portion. A trolley wire contact shoe is mounted on the pole upper end portion and slides along an electric power line or trolley wire that is suspended, for example, from a mine roof in an underground mine. An electrical conductor extends from the contact show through the pass...

A trolley conductor bridging means in an electrically powered trolley vehicle transportation system where said trolleys run by contact with a solid conductor and where said conductors are interrupted to provide a door clearance opening is disclosed wherein said means when closed provides for continuous electrical power and mechanical indistinguishable connection across said interruption and wherein said means is opened and closed automatically by the downward and upward force of the transverse m...

A trolley conveyor comprising a hollow guide rail within which an endless conveyor chain is centrally supported by guide rollers. A plurality of spaced U-shaped hangers supported by said chain extend through a longitudinal opening in one side of the guide rail spaced above the bottom of the rail. The lower side of the guide rail below the opening is inclined outwardly and serves to contain foreign matter present within the guide rail as well as to catch matter falling from above. The hangers eac...

A rolling trolley device adapted to ride upon opposite side flanges of a support beam; said trolley device comprising a generally V-shaped load supporting yoke bar of one-piece formation carrying at the opposite legs thereof a pair of generally tubular-shaped trolley wheel support housings; wheel support members extending from said housings at opposite sides of the legs of said bar; and support beam engaging wheels mounted upon said support members; said housings being keyed to said yoke bar leg...

A hand trolley for ascending and descending stairs is disclosed as including an elongated frame with a pair of outer rails and a pair of inner rails being spaced from the outer rails, a pair of wheels mounted on the frame at one end of the outer rails with a handle mounted on the frame at the other end of the outer rails, load supporting feet carried by the frame adjacent the wheels to define a primary load support, a carriage slidably mounted on the inner rails and defining a secondary load sup...

A support trolley comprises a central leg pillar and at least three legs radiating therefrom, each supported at its outer end by a respective castor wheel assembly. The inner end of each leg joins the lower end of the leg pillar by a sliding engagement of complementary splined surfaces, so that assembly or disassembly is easily effected. The outer end of each leg has a downwardly facing recess which receives the upwardly directed pintle of a respective castor wheel assembly, that pintle being tu...

The invention concerns a trolley comprising a trolley top supportable on a foldable trolley base, for transporting heavy objects particularly between a first support surface and a vehicle and then from the vehicle to a further support surface. The base is foldable between an erected condition in which the sides are spaced apart and upright portions project upwardly from support portions and a folded condition in which the sides are juxtaposed and the upright and support portions lie adjacent one...