Handling Goods in Wheeled Containers. A MEANS for handling goods
15th December 1931, Page 68
15th December 1931
Page 68
Page 68, 15th December 1931
— Handling Goods in Wheeled Containers. A MEANS for handling goods
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is described in patent No. 360,717 by J. S. Drewry, and Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., Letchworth, It consists of a trolley which can be wheeled about on the ground, and has a steering wheel of the kind which can move sideways on its ode. It can be tilted and connected to a lorry by means of hooks, so as to form a ramp up which goods on wheeled containers can be drawn by means of a chain or rope and the windlass arrangement shown.
When used at the side of a lorry it can be moved from place to place so that a number of containers can 14 carried side by side on the lorry, whilst any of these can be removed without disturbing the others.
The same apparatus can be carried by the lorry and used for' unloading.