Patent ID: 7967545
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: B66F

Abstract:
1. A lifting device for lifting, moving and stacking an object of a white goods type, the lifting device being adapted for mounting on an implement carrier comprising a fork structure which can be telescoped between a retracted position and an extended position, the lifting device comprising: a carrier part comprising sleeves mountable on the fork structure of the implement carrier, a holding part which is attached to the carrier part, the holding part being provided with at least one permanent magnet which is capable of holding and lifting said object due to attractive magnetic forces between the at least one permanent magnet and a surface of said object, a guide part which is rotatably mounted to the holding part between a position where the object is secured and a position where the object is released, a fixed connection attachable to a stationary part of the fork structure and the guide part such that the fixed connection causes the guide part to rotate when the telescopic fork structure is extended from the retracted position, where, on being rotated when the object is held by the at least one permanent magnet, the guide part pushes said object away from the at least one permanent magnet to a distance beyond the effective range of influence of the at least one permanent magnet causing said object to be released from the at least one permanent magnet.