US PATENT SUBCLASS 414 / 338 WHEELED, LOAD-TRANSPORTING TYPE VEHICLE UTILIZES ITS UNINTERRUPTED, FORWARD MOTION TO CAUSE AN EXTERNALLY SUPPORTED LOAD TO BE TRANSFERRED TO IT
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WHEELED, LOAD-TRANSPORTING TYPE VEHICLE UTILIZES ITSUNINTERRUPTED, FORWARD MOTION TO CAUSE AN EXTERNALLYSUPPORTED LOAD TO BE TRANSFERRED TO IT:
(under the class definition) Apparatus comprising a wheeled vehicle of a load-transporting type which is moving continuously in its normal direction of travel, and external structure in the nature of a load support or a device (e.g.,
a trip) for controlling the release of a load which is held by such a support, which structure or device is so positioned relative to the vehicle that the movement of the vehicle relative thereto results in extracting a load from the structure or in causing the device to release of a load for movement onto the vehicle.
(1) Note. See (2), (3), and (4) Notes of subclass 467.