US Patent Issued to Combilift on Oct. 28 for "Transfer plate mechanism of an apparatus for loading and unloading a shipping container" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,425, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Combilift (Monaghan, Ireland).

"Transfer plate mechanism of an apparatus for loading and unloading a shipping container" was invented by Martin McVicar (Milltown, Ireland), Robert Moffett (Clontibret, Ireland) and Mark Whyte (Castleblaney, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for loading a shipping container, comprising a transfer plate having a first set of holes and a second set of holes therein and configured to slide, together with an article thereon, into and out of the shipping container, a transfer means positioned underneath the transfer plate having a first carriage with...