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  2. Loading dock - Wikipedia

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    One example is trailer creep (also known as trailer walk, or dock walk), which occurs when the lateral and vertical forces exerted each time a forklift truck enters and exits the trailer cause the trailer to slowly move away from the dock, resulting in separation from the dock leveler. Factors that affect trailer creep are the weight and speed ...

  3. Lockrod - Wikipedia

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    The doors and end frame must hold the cargo securely while allowing the doors to swing free and be safely opened and closed with minimal effort. Depending on the size of the trailer, trailer end frame components typically consist of six to ten hinges, two to four lockrods, two trailer doors and the framework itself – all made of metal ...

  4. Tow hitch - Wikipedia

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    Before 1932, all trailers used only jaw or hook couplings with an eyelet for trailer towing. In 1932, Franz Knöbel, of Westfalia-Werke developed the trailer hitch with a ball head and socket joint. Franz Knöbel patented the ball head-socket joint trailer hitch invention on March 14, 1934. Westfalia holds a number of towing patents. [13] [14] [15]

  5. Buffer stop - Wikipedia

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    A buffer stop, bumper, bumping post, bumper block or stopblock (US), is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a physical section of track. The design of the buffer stop is dependent, in part, on the kind of couplings that the railway uses, since the coupling gear is the first part of the vehicle that the buffer stop ...

  6. Buffer (rail transport) - Wikipedia

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    The rod buffer was the earliest German type of sprung buffer. The first ones consisted of a steel rod that carried the buffer plate at one end. The buffer rod pushed backwards on a spiral volute spring (coil spring), which was supported by a strong sheet metal cylindrical sleeve. Compressing the spring absorbed the impact.

  7. Post (structural) - Wikipedia

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    Door – A post framing a doorway. Blade – A specific name for the post-like timber in cruck framing. Cruck stud – The upright stud or post forming a wall, mounted on a cruck blade and held by a cruck spur. Pile, piling – A post driven or set into the ground such as in earthfast, post in ground, or "posthole construction". [16]

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