Mechanism for loading and unloading containers onto and off a road vehicle

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A road vehicle for loading and unloading containers has a tiltable frame on which a carriage runs, the carriage having a pair of clamps to engage the lower front corners of a container located at the rear of the vehicle. To load a container the vehicle, is driven backwards to the container and the frame tilted until its rear end rests on the ground in front of the container. The carriage is run down the inclined frame by a winch-and-cable assembly and the clamps are secured to the container. As the carriage is pulled back on the frame, it lifts the front end of the container; the vehicle, with its transmission in neutral, moves rearwardly under the container being lifted without, however, …