Patent ID: 11878900
Assignee: RIGHTLINE EQUIPMENT, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. A clamp assembly for a lift truck load handler comprising:
two clamp plates, each with a load-side surface and an outside surface, the clamp plates configured to hold a load between their respective load-side surfaces;
two shoe plates, one of the shoe plates detachably coupled to one of the two clamp plates and the other of the two shoe plates detachably coupled to the other of the two clamp plates, wherein the two shoe plates are interchangeable;
wherein each of the shoe plates has a shoe plate spine, an outside shoe plate wear rib coupled to the shoe plate spine, and a load-side shoe plate wear rib coupled to the shoe plate spine;
wherein each of the shoe plates has a first shoe plate bracket at a first end of its shoe plate spine and a second shoe plate bracket at a second end of its shoe plate spine;
wherein each of the shoe plate brackets has a shoe plate bracket notch;
wherein each of the clamp plates on their lower portion have a clamp plate lower portion front edge; and
wherein each of the shoe plate bracket notches is configured to mate with at least one of the clamp plate lower portion front edges.