Overhead lathe charger

Claim 1

IN AN APPARATUS FOR CHARGING LOG BLOCKS TO A LATHE AND HAVING AN OVERHEAD CARRIAGE MOUNTED FOR MOVEMENT FROM A PICK-UP STATION TO A DELIVERY STATION, HYDRAULIC PISTON-AND-CYLINDER ASSEMBLIES DEPENDING FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE CARRIAGE, A HEAD YOKE EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID PISTON-AND-CYLINDER ASSEMBLIES, WRIST PINS CONNECTING EACH OF THE TWO ENDS OF THE HEAD YOKE WITH A RELATED ONE OF THE PISTON-AND-CYLINDER ASSEMBLIES TO PERMIT SAID ENDS TO BE RAISED AND LOWERED INDEPENDENTLY BY TELESCOPING ACTION OF THE PISTON-AND-CYLINDER ASSEMBLIES, A HANGER YOKE STRUCTURE UNDERLYING THE HEAD YOKE IN CENTERED RELATION THERETO, A KING PIN CONNECTING SAID YOKES TO ALLOW THE HANGER YOKE TO SWIVEL RELATIVE TO THE HEAD YOKE ABOUT A VERTICAL AXIS LYING MIDWAY BETWEEN THE ENDS OF THE YOKES, POWER MEANS INCLUDING A HYDRAULIC PISTON-AND-CYLINDER ASSEMBLY FOR SWINGING THE HANGER YOKE RELATIVE TO THE HEAD YOKE ABOUT SAID SWIVEL AXIS, STOPS LIMITING SAID SWING MOTION TO AN EXACT 180* ARC, A RESPECTIVE MEANS ON EACH OF THE TWO ENDS OF THE HANGER YOKE STRUCTURE ARRANGED TO GRIP A LONG BLOCK THEREBETWEEN AND MOUNTED FOR SHIFT MOTION ENDWISE TO THE YOKE STRUCTURE AS AN ADAPTATION TO LOG BLOCKS OF DIFFERING LENGTHS, AND POWER MEANS FOR SHIFTING SAID GRIPPING MEANS.