Patent ID: 7996943

Claim:
A frame of a dock leveler that positions a deck portion of the dock leveler so that the deck portion is level with a surrounding dock floor at a driveway end when mounted in a pit in the dock floor, said frame comprising: a pit supported portion configured to be placed on a floor of the pit; a deck supporting portion configured to provide support to the deck portion of the dock leveler; and an adjusting assembly operably connected to the pit supported portion and to the deck supporting portion and operable to move the deck supporting portion through a range of positions including away from the pit supported portion and towards the pit supported portion, the adjusting assembly being configured to hold the deck supporting portion so that the deck portion of the dock leveler is at a selected position with respect to the surrounding dock floor at the driveway end wherein the adjusting assembly includes structure defining a slot and the structure defining the slot is spaced above a lowest portion of the pit supported portion.