Patent ID: 7802652
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: B65G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A servicing station for tractor trailer trucks having a flatbed trailer, comprising: a fixed horizontal support base; a pair of vertical support columns mounted on said support base and spaced horizontally from one another a distance at least as great as the length of said trailer said columns extending upwardly above the height of said trailer a sufficient distance to avoid interference with loading and unloading of said trailer at one of its laterally opposite sides by a lift truck, a horizontally disposed I-beam having longitudinally opposite ends supported on said columns, respectively; said I-beam having upper and lower parallel horizontal flanges centrally interconnected by a longitudinally extending vertical web having laterally opposite inner and outer sides, a gear rack on top of said lower flange at the laterally outer side of said vertical web, a longitudinally extending track on said support base parallel to and beneath said I-beam, a servicing platform having an elongated electrical energy guiding chain having one end secured to the top of said I-beam and its other end secured to said electric supply station.