ES350794A1 - A cargo transportation apparatus. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

A load transport apparatus comprising a mobile vehicle body intended to travel a road surface and having a platform, substantially horizontal, arranged in relatively high relation to the surface of the road and a vertical wall structure, which cooperates with said platform to define an interior space and formed with at least one access opening to the interior space, a portable load conveyor intended to be placed in the interior space of said vehicle body on said platform and having at least one article support surface, horizontally arranged, held in relatively high relation to said platform surface and exposed in said access opening where the articles can be removed therefrom, and at least one ramp, which forms a horizontal, mounted surface on said vehicle body in coextensive relationship with said access opening, said said selectively disposable ramp in an inoperative position retracted in superposed relation with said platform, allowing easy access to the lower zones of said article conveyor from the road surface, and in an extended operative position projecting laterally from said body of said vehicle. Vehicle, providing a raised horizontal surface on which an operator can stand for easy access to the upper areas of said article conveyor having said load conveyor in the form of a shelf mounted on wheels and being able to move in and out of said body through an opening in said wall structure and means cooperating with said wall and said shelf to lock said shelf at a predetermined position in said body relative to said access opening, said vehicle body being of the van type, and the platform comprising a floor that has channels guide, longitudinally extending wheel receiving, adjacent to its external lateral edges but spaced internally from the vertical wall structures along said edges, said shelf resting on wheels that are laterally spaced and can enter and exit of said guide channels, and means for mounting said ramps for sliding movement on said channels, said means for locking said shelf with said body to said wheels in predetermined positions along said channels so as not to interfere with said ramps. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)