Front-ram Tipping Gear With No Space Loss
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ASTRAIGHTFORWARD and practical means for overcoming the disadvantage of lost body space, which normally accompanies the use of frontram tipping gear, is a recent develop
ment by the maker of Pilot tipping gear—Messrs. M. Edwards and Son, Pilot Works, Manchester Road, Bolton.
In this case, the headboard of the body may be taken practically up to the cab, because the ram is brought up inside the body, through a suitable aperture in the floor. Carried in a triangulated angIc-steel structure, which, incidentally, serves to give additional atreegth to the body headboard, is a spherical seating which accommodates the hall end of the ram.
Incidental to this method of assembly is the tact that it lends itself to the enclosure of the ram, thereby protecting it from the weather and from the harmful results of foreign matter. A sheet-metal cover ie, used for this par pose and, whilst the complete assembly takes up a certain amount of space— less than 1 cubic ft., actually—the overall saving effected is anything between 7 to 10 cubic ft.
Regarding the tipping gear itself, fabricated construction isadopted for the trunnion member which supports the telescopic ram, the lower or outer cylinder of which is spigoted into the trunnion member in which it is positioned by two lugs and setscrews.
A special Pilot high-pressure, ballbearing gear pump operates the ram, The Pilot 5-ton gear, complete, comes out at under 2 cwt. and its price is £55, whilst the price of the 3/aton model is