US Patent Issued to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling on Dec. 30 for "Auxiliary rollers for a fork of a forked materials-handling vehicle" (Chinese, Italian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,338, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. (Fairview, Ore.).

"Auxiliary rollers for a fork of a forked materials-handling vehicle" was invented by Prafulla Y. Mahure (Pune, India), Andrea Cavazzin (Milan) and ShengFei Pang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fork assembly for a forked materials-handling vehicle with a chassis is configured to simultaneously lift at least two inline pallets, each pallet comprising a plurality of bottom boards. The fork assembly comprises a plurality of elongated forks and a plurality of auxiliary rollers. The plurality of elongated forks includes a first fork an...