Side shifting attachment for fork lift trucks

Claim 1

In a fork lift truck having a lift bracket movable up and down on upright masts, and a pair of upper and lower finger bars extending transversely and attached to upper and lower spaced positions of the lift bracket, respectively, a side shifting attachment secured to the upper and lower finger bars for shiftably supporting thereon fork tines comprising: a transversely extending upper fork bar engageable with an upper end of said fork tines; a transversely extending lower fork bar vertically spaced from said upper fork bar and engageable with a lower end of said fork tines; upper shift bar means fixed to said upper fork bar and transversely slidably engaged with said upper finger bar via a transverse liner, said upper shift bar means including a plurality of mounting holes; a lower shift bar means fixed to said lower fork bar and transversely slidably engaged with said lower fork bar; a shift actuator arranged in front of said upper and lower finger bars for producing a transverse shift of said upper and lower fork bars along said upper and lower finger bars; slide guide means arranged between said lower fork bar and said lower finger bar for sliding said lower fork bar during the transverse shift of said upper and lower fork bars, and; slide pad means arranged between said upper fork bar and said upper finger bar for smoothly moving said upper fork bar during the transverse shift of said upper and lower fork bars, said slide pad means including a pair of transversely spaced slide plate members attached to said upper shift bar means and each having a plain face, respectively, in contact with a plain surface of said upper finger bar, and at least one mounting pin provided on a rear face of each slide plate member for removably securing said slide plate members in corresponding mounting holes of said upper shift bar means in a loose mounting arrangement.