Patent ID: 11879300
Assignee: TERRA SONIC INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 15:
16. A sonic tooling handling apparatus comprising:
a gantry support structure including:
a base frame structure defining an outer terminal periphery having at least a first side edge and a second side edge,
an overhead frame structure operatively coupled to the base frame structure, the overhead frame structure having a pair of longitudinal beams with each longitudinal beam having a length and a transverse beam having a length coupled to the pair of longitudinal beams, the transverse beam being movable along at least a part of the length of each of the pair of longitudinal beams, and
a lifting device operatively coupled to the transverse beam and movable along at least part of the transverse beam, the lifting device includes a sonic tooling clamp configured to clamp onto sonic tooling, the lifting device configured to raise or lower sonic tooling held by the sonic tooling clamp; and

a sonic tooling holding rack having a plurality of stanchions configured to create at least one sonic tooling holding space for holding sonic tooling, the sonic tooling holding rack being configured to be removably mounted on the base frame structure of the gantry support structure,
wherein an end of each of the pair of longitudinal beams extends outwardly beyond the first side edge of the base frame structure so that the lifting device may lower or raise sonic tooling beyond the first side edge of the outer terminal periphery of the base frame structure, and wherein an end of the transverse beam extends outwardly beyond the second side edge of the base frame so that the lifting device may lower or raise sonic tooling beyond the second side edge of the outer terminal periphery of the base frame structure.