Patent ID: 7448842

Claim:
Industrial truck having a load-receiving device for the purpose of receiving a load and lifting and dropping the load, said load-receiving device having a clamping device to hold a clamping region of the received load in clamping engagement, the clamping device being vertically moveable, and having at least one clamping means which is adapted to move between a clamping position and a release position, a drive arrangement, which is coupled to at least one of the clamping means by a coupling, for the purpose of moving the at least one clamping means and an elastic device which prestresses the at least one clamping means in a movement direction, wherein the elastic device prestresses the at least one clamping means in a direction of a clamping position for the purpose of exerting a clamping force on the clamping region of the load by means of the clamping means, the clamping means being in the form of lever elements which can be pivoted about a common pivot bolt towards and away from one another, and wherein the elastic device is connected with the lever elements respectively.