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The freight transporter and loader of the disclosure is a vehicle having a power-driven, steerable wheeled chassis and having an elevator support bed. The bed is provided with multiple conveyors arranged to handle either three rows of LD-3 type cargo containers or two rows of LD-7 type containers. T

The freight transporter and loader of the disclosure is a vehicle having a power-driven, steerable wheeled chassis and having an elevator support bed. The bed is provided with multiple conveyors arranged to handle either three rows of LD-3 type cargo containers or two rows of LD-7 type containers. The bed is provided with a number of parallel conveyors extending along the length of the bed, conveyor elements to selectively drive the cargo containers transversely of the bed from one longitudinal conveyor to another, and is also provided with means enabling cargo containers to be reoriented through 180°turns. The support bed is provided with an interface or extension unit to enable an aircraft to be loaded or unloaded. The interface unit is selectively shiftable transversely of the forward end of the support bed so as to be used in conjunction with a selected one of the number of longitudinal conveyors on the support bed. The interface unit can be extended and brought into coupled relationship with the sill of the freight loading doorway of the aircraft. The interface unit may also be pivoted both horizontally and vertically relative to the support bed. The vertical pivotal movability of the interface unit is related through a sensing and control system to automatic vertical adjustment of the elevator support bed in accordance with the lowering of the aircraft body as it takes on the freight and raising of the aircraft body as freight is unloaded.

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A freight unit transporter and loader vehicle for aircraft comprising a freight unit support bed, conveyor means carried by the bed for the movement of freight units along the bed, a support bed extension unit connected to the support bed, means to connect the extension unit to a loading doorway of

A freight unit transporter and loader vehicle for aircraft comprising a freight unit support bed, conveyor means carried by the bed for the movement of freight units along the bed, a support bed extension unit connected to the support bed, means to connect the extension unit to a loading doorway of an aircraft, conveyor means carried by the extension unit to enable the transfer of freight units from the extension unit into the aircraft, and means for horizontally pivotally swinging the extension unit relative to the support bed whereby the extension unit may be disposed normal to the aircraft doorway while the support bed may be disposed parallel to a trailing edge of a wing of the aircraft.