US 6,981,837 B2
Industrial truck with a tiltable lifting frame
Markus Gesser, Hanau (Germany)
Assigned to Linde Aktiengesellschaft, (Germany)
Filed on May 09, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/435,603.
Claims priority of application No. 102 21 002 (DE), filed on May 11, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0021308 A1, Feb. 05, 2004
Int. Cl. B66F 9/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 414—635 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An industrial truck, comprising:
a vehicle chassis;
an axle body connected to the vehicle chassis, such that the axle body can pivot and/or rotate with respect to the vehicle chassis; and
a tiltable lifting frame connected with the axle body by first and second connecting means,
wherein the first means have a degree of freedom in rotation around an axis of rotation that is parallel to an axial center line of the axle body, and
wherein the second means are at a spaced distance from the axis of rotation of the first means and in a plane that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the first means and have a degree of freedom in translation with defined elasticity along an axis that is perpendicular to a vertical dimension of the lifting frame.