Patent ID: 8306706

Claim:
A storage container loading/unloading and transporting apparatus comprising: a transfer cart installed on a frame of a vehicle and reciprocating in the longitudinal direction of a loading table; an ascending and descending unit installed on the transfer cart to raise and lower the at least one storage container; vertical members installed at both sides of the ascending and descending unit, and horizontally spread out and drawn in by projectable and retractable cylinders; a pair of fork arms journalled at lower parts of the vertical members, and provided with front ends supported by tilting cylinders, wherein the pair of fork arms is configured to be raised above the frame or lowered below the frame substantially down to a floor; a plurality of forks connected to the fork arms to clamp the at least one storage container; holding frames installed in parallel at both sides of the frame such that the at least one storage container is loaded on the holding frames; binding units to fix the at least one storage container loaded on the holding frames; and a hydraulic device and a controller, wherein the storage container loading/unloading and transporting apparatus is configured to load/unload and transport at least one storage container by reciprocating motion of the transfer cart installed on the loading table of the vehicle and ascending and descending motion of the ascending and descending unit.