US PATENT SUBCLASS 414 / 383
.~.~ Means cooperates with motion of vehicle to reorient load body, relative to wheels, into load releasing attitude

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414 /   HD   MATERIAL OR ARTICLE HANDLING

373  DF  LOAD-TRANSPORTING TYPE VEHICLE AND EXTERNAL MEANS COOPERATING IN THE LOADING OR UNLOADING THEREOF {11}
376  DF  .~ Involving movement of load by gravity from wheeled vehicle {5}
383.~.~ Means cooperates with motion of vehicle to reorient load body, relative to wheels, into load releasing attitude {1}
384  DF  .~.~.~> By pivoting body about axis parallel to longitudinal axis of vehicle to unload from side

DEFINITION

Classification: 414/383

Means cooperates with motion of vehicle to reorient load body, relative to wheels, into load releasing attitude:

(under subclass 376) Apparatus wherein the vehicle is in motion and the means comprises a device or structure which, as a result of the vehicle's movement, tilts, inverts or otherwise causes the load-holding portion of the vehicle to reposition itself, relative to the wheels of the vehicle, into an attitude whereby a load therein will fall therefrom.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

105, Railway Rolling Stock,

241.2, for a vehicle of that class which may include structure whereby it constitutes the vehicle subcombination of this subclass (383).