Patent ID: 7189048

Claim:
A swivel device for loading and unloading a pick-up vehicle, the pick-up vehicle having an open cargo bed coupled to a passenger cab, side walls, a rear wall, and wheel wells located one of inside and outside of the open cargo bed, said swivel device comprising: swivel arms being located on both sides of the open cargo bed; connecting bridges arranged to couple said swivel arms to form swivel yokes, each swivel yoke including one of the swivel arms from each side and one of the connecting bridges; movable connection pieces; two swivel axes of said swivel device being adapted to be located between the rear wall and the wheel wells; said two swivel axes located one behind the other in a longitudinal direction of said pick-up vehicle and at a same height relative to said cargo bed, wherein said swivel arms are swivelably coupled around said two swivel axes, and wherein the swivel yokes are coupled together through said movable connection pieces, thereby forming a parallelogram swivel arm structure on each side of the open cargo bed; at least one load uptake device which is couplable to one of said movable connection pieces; and at least one rigid suspension, wherein said at least one load uptake device comprises a platform, and wherein said at least one rigid suspension rigidly couples the platform to said one of said movable connection pieces.