US Patent Issued to K. Hartwall on Nov. 3 for "Wheel arm forklift truck, preferably as an automated guided vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,631, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to K. Hartwall GmbH (Heidenau, Germany).

"Wheel arm forklift truck, preferably as an automated guided vehicle" was invented by Gerhard Habedank (Seevetal, Germany) and Frank Haltermann (Heidenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a wheel arm forklift truck (1), preferably as an automated guided vehicle, comprising a front end (10c) having at least, preferably exactly, two steerable drive rollers (11a, 11b); comprising at least one first wheel arm (10a) which extends in a straight line away from the front end (10c) and is fixedly connected to the front end (10c),...