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1. A transport apparatus for a large cylindrical body carried on a transportation pallet where the pallet has a bottom surface for resting on a floor, an upper surface for locating the cylindrical body with an axis of the cylindrical body parallel to and transverse to the upper surface of the pallet, and a receptacle at a side of the pallet for a lifting system by which the pallet can be carried, the apparatus comprising:
a platform having a top surface onto which the bottom surface of the pallet can be received; a platform support arranged to be recessed in the floor for moving the platform between a raised position in which the top surface is level with the floor so that the pallet can be moved into place on the platform and a lowered position in which the top surface is below the floor with the pallet thereon so that the top surface of the pallet is level with the floor; a cylindrical body pusher movable across the top surface of the pallet, with the platform support in the lowered position in a direction at right angles to the axis of the cylindrical body to push the cylindrical body across the pallet and so that the cylindrical body rolls off the pallet to one side of the platform; a locating system for the cylindrical body arranged on said one side of the platform to halt rolling of the cylindrical body at a required location and to confine the cylindrical body at the required location for transportation in a direction longitudinally of the axis of the cylindrical body; and a pallet pusher movable across the top surface of the platform, with the platform support in the raised position, to push the pallet off the platform on to the floor. |
