Keith Tantlinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Keith Tantlinger

American inventor

Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1919

Place of Birth: Orange, California, United States

Date of Death: 27-Aug-2011

Profession: engineer, inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Keith Tantlinger

  • Keith Walton Tantlinger (March 22, 1919 – August 27, 2011) was a mechanical engineer and inventor.
  • As Vice President of Engineering at the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation his inventions played a major role in containerization.
  • Working with a Fruehauf customer, Malcom McLean, they spearheaded the container ship revolution in the 1950s, Tantlinger developed much of the early technology that made modern container shipping possible while at Fruehauf.
  • After its initial order of containers from Brown Trailer, Sea-Land switched to containers made by the Strick division of the Fruehauf Trailer Company.
  • Fruehauf had been one of the dominant players in building truck bodies and trailers for a long time, and, as already described, had previously innovated in the design and construction of the early commercial semi-trailers.
  • President Roy Fruehauf was impressed with the idea of containerization, so in addition to manufacturing containers for Sea-Land his company agreed to make the trailer chassis that were needed, and also to provide financing to Sea-Land for the purchase of these containers and chassis.
  • In 1958 Tantlinger left Sea-Land and became chief engineer at Fruehauf, where he continued to work with containers.
  • More importantly, over the years he played a key role in the process of container standardization, working extensively on a committee of the American Standards Association (ASA) and later being critically involved with the ISO's efforts.
  • His designs included the corner casting and Twistlock systems found on every intermodal container, the spreader bar for automatic securing of containers lifted on and off ships, and the ship-shore container transfer apparatus for the first cellular container ship.
  • In the course of his professional career, Tantlinger was granted 79 United States patents, all related to transportation equipment.
  • Many of his patents related to commercial highway freight trailers and transit buses.

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