Patent ID: 11964860
Assignee: BAILEY SPECIALTY CRANES AND AERIALS, LLC
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 23:
24. A lift-and-place vehicle for use in installation of an array of solar panels arranged parallel in rows on support structure, the vehicle powered to move between and along adjacent rows of the support structure and including:
a base having a ground-engaging driver for movement along the ground;
a lifting mast secured with respect to the base, extending upwardly and in a fore/aft direction to define a panel-loading space;
a liftable trolley beam secured to the mast over the panel-loading space and extending laterally to span between the adjacent rows;
a traversing trolley movable along the trolley beam; and
a panel-placing carrier suspended from the trolley for up/down and lateral movement of panels carried thereby.