Patent attributes
A material handling apparatus for use with a material carrier board including an aperture, the material handling apparatus being configured to couple to a lifting portion of a lift truck that includes forks, the material handling apparatus including a mount configured to be coupled to the lifting portion of the lift truck, a backrest having a bottom edge and a front face, a scissor structure coupled to the mount and to the backrest, the scissor structure being configured to operate between extended and retracted states, wherein when the scissor structure is operated from the retracted state to the extended state, the backrest is extended from a proximal end of the forks towards a distal end of the forks, the stop plate being attached to the backrest such that the horizontal planar portion is substantially perpendicular to the front face of the backrest, the vertical planar portion is substantially parallel to and offset from the front face of the backrest, the horizontal planar portion of the stop plate forming an aperture, a first actuator coupled to the mount and the scissor structure being configured to actuate the scissor structure between the extended and retracted states, a second actuator coupled to the backrest, a stud and configured to operate between extended and retracted states, the stud being configured to extend through the aperture formed in the carrier board when the stud is actuated from the retracted to the extended state, wherein the material handling apparatus is configured to pull the carrier board onto the forks by, when the stud is in the extended state, actuating the scissor portion from an extended state to a retracted state.
