B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
G
B65G 69/34 (2006.01) B60S 13/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2735382
An example of a vehicle brace for use at a loading dock includes a vehicle support member that can travel to various heights along a vertical track. The support member exerts a substantial but limited resistive force up against the underside of a vehicle's rear impact guard to mitigate bouncing of the vehicle's truck or trailer bed as the vehicle is being loaded and/or unloaded of its cargo. Of particular interest in some examples is a rather short brake actuator mounted at an angle to create an inclined binding clamp action, the actuator being installed to travel with the vehicle support member, and the track having an inclined braking surface so that the brake's clamping force does not rely on friction alone, all of which provides for a compact vehicle brace installable as a self-contained unit and operated without having to rely on structural support from a driveway surface.
Andersen Jonathan
Hahn Norbert
Goudreau Gage Dubuc
Rite-Hite Holding Corporation
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