Tailgate loader

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B - Operations, Transporting

60

P

214/86

B60P 1/44 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1148901

ABSTRACT There is provided a tailgate loader for a vehicle such as a truck. The loader includes an upper arm means and a lower arm means, both pivoted at one end to the rear of the vehicle, and both swingable in a vertical plane. The arm means are in parallelogram linkage, and a platform is mounted on the short rearward arm of the parallelogram, so that it can swing between a stored position in which it overlies the upper arm means, and an extended position in which it projects rearwardly from the upper arm means. Power means are provided fox swinging the arm means about their pivot locations, and an opener assembly is provided for raising the platform from the stored position to a near- vertical position as the two arm means swing downwardly about their pivot locations. The opener assembly includes a first connecting link pivoted at one end to the upper arm means at a location spaced a first distance from the other end thereof, and a second connecting link pivoted at one end to the lower arm means at a location spaced a second distance from the other end of the lower arm means, the second distance being greater than said first distance. The other ends of the first and second connecting links are pivotally connected together to form a knuckle. As the arm means are lowered, the knuckle moves away from the upper arm means, thus pressing on and moving the platform toward a vertical position, so that the operator need not exert great force to swing the platform to its extended position.

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