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Abstract

A straddle loader for ISO containers has a portal-like box girder at each end and longitudinal chassis girders a certain distance apart connecting the box girders, the longitudinal girders forming the base for the individual wheel suspensions of the traveling mechanism and for the attachment of a lifting device for the ISO containers. The straddle loader can be used passively, i.e., it can be loaded and unloaded from above through the open space between the longitudinal chassis girders and the box girders extending transversely between them. It can also be used actively, i.e., the straddle loader can be driven by its traveling mechanism installed on both sides of the longitudinal axis of the ISO container into a loading position above the ISO container, in which position the lifting bolts of the downward-extending grapplers, which are hinged to the two raisable and lowerable longitudinal girders of the lifting device, which are symmetrical to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, can be pivoted into the lower corner fittings of the ISO containers. The number and position of the grapplers are selected in correspondence with the dimensions of the ISO container to be lifted.

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