Patent ID: 8869334

Claim:
A mobile loading dock for a vehicle comprising: a load-bearing, fixed frame including a support plate connected to a first diagonal support and an opposite-second diagonal support, a first horizontal support member and a opposite-second horizontal support member connected to the support plate and respective diagonal supports; and a planar ramp member having: an upper end including an upper edge; a lower end terminating in a lower edge, the lower edge having a slot for engagement with a fork truck for positioning of the ramp member; and a ramp underside having a wheel assembly thereupon, the wheel assembly having (a) a tension spring; (b) a hydraulic member; (c) a leg hingedly attached to the ramp underside; and (d) a wheel attached to the leg at an axle and disposed to contact a ground surface beneath the mobile loading dock, the tension spring exerts a pulling force on the leg and the wheel and the hydraulic member exerts a pushing force on the leg and the wheel, the combined pulling force and pushing force being directionally disposed to erect the wheel assembly when the lower end of the mobile loading dock is raised from a resting position in contact with the ground surface to a mobile position not in contact with the ground surface; whereby the dock is fully-mobile and positionable with a fork truck.