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Abstract

A truck upright having a fixed upright section, one or more telescopic upright sections, and a load carrier mounted on one of the telescopic sections. A sole asymmetric lift cylinder assembly is located adjacent one side of the upright in a position which provides improved overall operator visibility through the upright. The lift cylinder is adapted to be operatively connected to a telescopic upright section by means of a pair of lifting chains. One of the chains is reeved on a pair of spaced and rotationally aligned sprockets supported either from a telescopic section or from the lift cylinder assembly such that the chain traverses the upright and is fixedly secured at one end a substantial distance outwardly of one side only of the cylinder assembly to a member, such as to the adjacent outer upright rail, and at the other end to the remote side of a telescopic section or to a fork carriage. The second chain is adapted to be reeved on a sprocket mounted from the one side of a telescopic section or from the lift cylinder ssembly, the one chain end of the second chain being also secured a substantial distance outwardly of the said one side of the lift cylinder to a member coincident with, adjacent to or in spaced relation to the corresponding end of the first chain, and the other chain end of said second chain being secured to the near or adjacent side of the telescopic section or fork carriage.

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