An improved turntable, adapted to detect, correct and/or adjust wheel alignment of a vehicle, includes a fixed base to be positioned on a surface; a movable assembly, mounted onto the fixed base so as to rotate and translate with respect thereto and having an upper plate that receives and supports a wheel and a lower disk integral with the upper plate; a locking mechanism associated with the fixed base, which interacts with the lower disk of the movable assembly; an actuator that causes the locking mechanism to pass from a first condition, in which the mechanism limits and counters translations of the lower disk in a lying plane while allowing rotations of the disk about an axis perpendicular to the lying plane, to a second condition, in which the mechanism allows free translations of the lower disk in its lying plane and free rotations of the disk about such axis.
An improved turntable
2020-07-09
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B66F HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD , Hub-, Verhol- oder Schubvorrichtungen, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen, z.B. Vorrichtungen mit unmittelbarer Krafteinwirkung auf die Last / G01B MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS , Messen der Länge, der Dicke oder ähnlicher linearer Abmessungen |