| 摘要 |
Forklift and material handling procedures involve many safety, productivity, and efficiency constraints. Foremost among these is the inability of equipment operators to accurately determine the alignment of equipment forks to the material or vessle being handled. The “Forklift/Material Handling Fork Level Indicator” described herein, eliminates this problem. By employing a rearward facing baseplate, mirror, indicator needle, and graduated scale, the equipment operator can literally “see around a corner” to easily determine equipment mast vertical condition, fork to floor parallelism, and thus accurate alignment of equipment forks to pallets, skids, or other shipping and storage containers upon approach to, or withdrawl from said vessles. Installed on the side of the main vertical mast of material handling equipment, this device provides a side view of the main mast position, via the freely rotating indicator needle, directly to the operator while in normal operating position. |
| 主权项 |
1. A device for providing visual indication of mast side view and therefore mast plumb or tilt condition directly to the operator of forklift material handling equipment, said device comprising:
a baseplate, said baseplate bent at approximately 45 degrees, standing on end, resembling a partially opened book, and forming two inner surfaces; a mirror attached to one of said inner surfaces of the bend; an indicator needle on the opposing inner surface of said baseplate and held by a rivet and freely rotating about its axis; said rivet fitted with an axle bushing and a spacer bushing to provide a gap between said indicator needle and said baseplate allowing free rotation of the indicator needle along its axis. |
