MULTIPLE DRUM CLAMPING UNIT

摘要

Multiple drum clamping attachment for lift trucks or other lifting devices, gripping and lifting one or a plurality of drums and depositing the drums in upright positions. Clamping jaws extend radially from the center of the attachment, each pair of which clamping jaws engages beneath and within the bead of a drum upon lowering movement of the attachment into engagement with the top of the drum and come into clamping engagement with the bead of the drum as elevated. The drums are maintained in generally vertical positions during lifting and lowering thereof by straightening abutments, extending generally radially from the center of the attachment on opposite sides of the clamping jaws. Each pair of straightening guides is adapted to engage the side of a drum on opposite sides of the clamping jaws and to extend downwardly along the drum beneath the center of gravity of the drum, to hold the drum from tilting during upward lifting movement of the drum.