EP0139673B1 - Winde - Google Patents
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- EP0139673B1 EP0139673B1 EP19840901076 EP84901076A EP0139673B1 EP 0139673 B1 EP0139673 B1 EP 0139673B1 EP 19840901076 EP19840901076 EP 19840901076 EP 84901076 A EP84901076 A EP 84901076A EP 0139673 B1 EP0139673 B1 EP 0139673B1
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- rope
- control
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- winch
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
- B66D—CAPSTANS; WINCHES; TACKLES, e.g. PULLEY BLOCKS; HOISTS
- B66D1/00—Rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms; Capstans
- B66D1/02—Driving gear
- B66D1/14—Power transmissions between power sources and drums or barrels
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
- B66D—CAPSTANS; WINCHES; TACKLES, e.g. PULLEY BLOCKS; HOISTS
- B66D1/00—Rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms; Capstans
- B66D1/26—Rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms; Capstans having several drums or barrels
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- the invention is concerned with a winch device and in particular with a method for controlling the operation of the winch.
- a winch device in accordance with the application will be used a winch device used in forestry for harvesting of timber, the designation winch being used for the said winch device in the following.
- winches e.g. FI-C-59-3708
- winches include a working rope and a control rope or cord for controlling the operation of the winch that the control rope must be tensioned or pulled outwards from the winch when the winch is supposed to pull the working rope into the winch.
- winches known at present may be divided into two groups in respect of their principle of operation:
- the winch in accordance with the FI-C-50,405 can be mentioned.
- the hydraulic winches in use at present also operate by means of the same control principle.
- the control of the valve opening and closing, respectively, the supply of oil to the hydraulic motor has been accomplished so that the valve is opened when the control lever of the valve is tensioned, e.g., against a spring force, and that, correspondingly, the valve is closed by the effect of the said spring force when the control lever is released.
- the operation of the control valve is supposed to be performed more remote from the winch, the operation of the said valve may be controlled, e.g., by means of a control cord attached to the control lever.
- a winch is described whose operation is affected, besides by the ten- siohing of the control cord, also by its movement.
- Such a winch possesses certain advantages, described in the said patent, over the simpler winch described above.
- winch e.g., the revolving angle of the working-rope reel can be controlled more accurately.
- the winch is as such suitable, e.g., for loading a forest tractor if the hoisting distances are short, but in the case of long hoisting distances, the same problems are encountered as with the winch mentioned above.
- the control rope moves in a direction opposite to the working rope, i.e., when the control rope is being pulled out of the winch, the winch pulls the working rope into the winch, and the other way round.
- both the working rope and the control rope, or at least one of them, are always outside the winch.
- the length of the control rope is limited to about ten metres, but that results in a new problem. If the length of the control rope is less than the hoisting distance, the operator must first attach the hoisting claws to the log and thereupon return to the control rope to start hoisting. However, in practice it often happens that when the working rope is tensioned, the hoisting claws slip off the log, and the operator must return to the log, attach the hoisting claws, go back to the control rope, etc.
- a reeling device carried on the back is at present used as an aid to some extent, which said device reels the slack control rope by means of spring force into the device.
- the reeling device is full of rope when the operator is alongside the winch, but it is emptied when he walks off the winch.
- the quantity of rope that can be reeled into the device is, however, relatively limited, and in practice the extreme limit of its operation is often reached, at which time it can no longer deliver control rope.
- the reeling device is of some help, but the following deficiencies and drawbacks still remain:
- the reeling device accommodates only about 30 to 40 metres of control rope, and if the log to be hoisted is more distant, the operator must take the reeling device off his back and, after he has attached the hoisting claws to the log, he must return to the reeling device in order to start hoisting.
- a winch e.g., for harvesting wood in the case of thinning out of the forest, the hoisting distances are often longer than the distance of operation of the reeling device.
- the operator's walking along with the log to be hoisted may cause various dangerous situations, e.g. when the operator happens to fall down during hoisting.
- the control rope is most likely to be slackened, whereat, in the prior-art winch constructions, the consequence is that the operating connection pulling the working-rope reel, such as the friction coupling, is opened.
- the winch includes a particular safety device to prevent such a situation.
- a safety device is also required by the law in certain countries.
- GB-A-805,725 discloses a winch wherein a control cable is wound in and out together with the working rope. Winding in of the working rope is controlled electrically either through conductors of the control cable or by acoustic wireless control. Common unwinding of the control cable and working rope is controlled by pull on the working rope.
- the winch device shown in Fig. 1 consists of a stationary hollow shaft 13 attached to an appropriate frame construction 19 as well as of a working-rope reel 7 and a control-rope reel 33, mounted on the said shaft 13 as freely revolving and having a limited axial movement, as well as of members, mounted on the said hollow shaft 13, for producing the driving power and for controlling the operation of the working-rope reel and the control-rope reel relative each other.
- the winch is constructed so that it can be mounted to the three-point fastening gear of a tractor, and in such a case it receives its operating power from the power take-off of the tractor.
- the reeling power for the winch is transmitted by means of appropriate equipment (not shown) to a chain 47 and, by means of the chain, further to the drive or chain wheel 16.
- the same equipment also transmits the operating power to the control equipment of the winch by the intermediate of a chain 46 and a cogwheel 25.
- the working-rope reel 7 of the winch is installed as freely revolving on bearings 10, the working rope 48 that pulls or lifts the load being wound onto the said reel 7, and, correspondingly, unwound for the purpose of hoisting a new load.
- the journalling of the working-rope reel 7 has been accomplished so that the working-rope reel can move substantially freely, but restrictedly, in a way to be described below, on the shaft 13.
- a connecting shaft 1 is journalled inside the hollow shaft 13 as passing through it and projecting out of both of its ends.
- the connecting shaft 1 is concentric with the hollow shaft 13, and it is journalled as freely revolving relative the hollow shaft 13.
- a locking nut 2 or equivalent At the end of the connecting shaft 1 that projects out of the end of the hollow shaft 13 next to the working-rope reel 7, a locking nut 2 or equivalent has been fastened as the outermost component. Between this locking nut and the working-rope reel 7, the first rotational wedge member 4,5,6 is installed, whose purpose will be explained later.
- a locking nut 36 or equivalent has been fixed correspondingly and, inwards from the said nut 36, a rotational wedge member 31,32,35 corresponding to that mentioned above, the purpose of this second member being likewise explained later.
- the control-rope reel 33 is mounted further, being freely revolving but having a restricted axial movement.
- the said chain wheel 16 is mounted on the hollow shaft 13 as freely revolving, but as axially immobile relative the hollow shaft.
- the said chain wheel 16 is mounted alongside the working-rope reel 7, at the side facing the control-rope reel 33, so that the working-rope reel 7 can reach contact with the friction face 15 on the chain wheel 16 within the limits of its axial movement.
- the second said chain wheel 25 is mounted in connection with the control-rope reel 33, at the side facing the working-rope reel 7, so that the control-rope reel 33 can reach contact, by means of the members attached to the said reel 33, with the friction face 29 on the chain wheel 25 within the scope of its axial movement.
- the second said chain wheel 25 is also journalled on the hollow shaft 13 as freely revolving but as locked in respect of axial movement.
- the said members attached to the working-rope reel 33 which act jointly with the friction face 29 on the chain wheel 25, consist of drag mem-- bers 26 fixed onto the control-rope reel 33 as well as of a clutch disc 30 attached to the connecting shaft 1 non-rotatably but with a restricted movement in the axial direction.
- the device in accordance with the invention also includes a locking member 40, functioning as a safety device, which, in certain operating situations, locks the control-rope reel 33 against revolving in the direction of inward winding and, at the same time, causes stopping of the working-rope reel.
- a locking member 40 functioning as a safety device, which, in certain operating situations, locks the control-rope reel 33 against revolving in the direction of inward winding and, at the same time, causes stopping of the working-rope reel.
- the operation of the winch can be described by means of the following example. It is assumed as a starting situation that the drive chains 46 and 47 receive operating power, whereat the chain wheels 25 and 16 revolve in the direction indicated by the arrows, i.e. downwards at the front side in Fig. 1. The working rope has been pulled out, and there is a load at its end. The control rope 43 is also in the pulled-out position, substantially at an equal distance as compared with the working rope 48.
- control-rope reel If the control-rope reel is allowed to revolve more in the same direction by slackening the control rope, a situation is reached in which the control-rope reel presses the clutch disc 30 against the friction face 29 on the chain wheel 25, whereat the connecting shaft 1 tends to revolve along with the control-rope reel 33.
- the winch operator wishes to reduce the speed of winding-in of the working rope or to stop the hoisting, he retards the winding-in of the control rope 43 to such an extent that the control-rope reel 33 remains a little angular movement after, relative the connecting shaft 1.
- the rotational wedge member 32 is returned in the axial direction correspondingly in its narrowing direction, whereat the compression pressure between the control-rope reel 33, the clutch disc 30, and the friction face 29 is reduced.
- the clutch disc can slip in the trailing direction relative the chain wheel 25, whereat the connecting shaft 1 is no longer rotated at the same speed as in the earlier situation relative the working-rope reel 7, which also results in a slackening of the rotational wedge 4.
- the winch has two sorts of dragging members 26.
- the wedge faces of the rotational wedge members have been shaped so that they have variable pitch.
- the pitch of the wedge faces 50 is steeply rising, whereat, at the final end of the operation of the rotational wedge members, the pitch of the wedge face becomes more gently rising.
- the safety lock consists of a shaft fixed to the frame 19 of the winch, on which shaft a lever member 39 has been arranged as pivotable so that it is provided with two projecting cams.
- One of the cams is provided with a pulley 42, over which the guide rope 43 is pulled.
- the opposite cam 40 is designed as a grasping member, which is arranged so as to engage in a tooth recess 34 provided at the end face of the guide-rope reel.
- the pivoting of the lever 39 in the direction engaging in the tooth recess 34 is caused by a spring member 44.
- the objective of the said safety member is to watch the tensioning of the control rope 43 and to cause stopping of the hoisting if the tensioning of the control rope becomes lower than the value determined by the spring 44. Such a situation may occur, e.g., if the person operating the winch falls down during the hoisting, in which case the control rope may become slack. Thereat, if the winch did not have the said safety member, there would be a risk that the log or any other load resting on the working rope bruises the winch operator who fell down in the path of the load, for a slack control rope would mean a full-power hoist command for the winch.
- the chain wheel 16, which transmits the drive power to the working-rope reel 7 is provided with a catch device, which, at the hoisting stage, permits revolving of the chain wheel in the direction of winding-in only.
- the said catch device is, however, not entirely indispensable, for in a situation in which the drive power of the winch is lost, reasonable security is obtained for the winch against winding-back by making the catch toothing 34 on the control-rope reel 33 such that it grasps in both directions, whereat, when the control rope becomes slack, the control-rope reel 33 is prevented from revolving in any of the directions.
- the winch is wedged, owing to the opening of the rotational wedge members, and becomes a rigid unit, which is locked against winding-out by the intermediate of the lever member 39 against the frame 19 of the winch.
- control method in accordance with the invention may also be accomplished by means of winches of hydraulic or electrical operation.
- the winch in accordance with the invention may also be accomplished as a dual construction in which the rope reels revolve in opposite directions, in which case the winch gives a good embodiment for a funicular drive.
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- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
- Storing, Repeated Paying-Out, And Re-Storing Of Elongated Articles (AREA)
- Emergency Lowering Means (AREA)
- Lift-Guide Devices, And Elevator Ropes And Cables (AREA)
- Electric Cable Installation (AREA)
- Control And Safety Of Cranes (AREA)
Claims (12)
Priority Applications (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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AT84901076T ATE27796T1 (de) | 1983-03-07 | 1984-03-07 | Winde. |
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FI830749A FI70870C (fi) | 1983-03-07 | 1983-03-07 | Foerfarande foer styrande av vinsch samt vinsch foer utfoerande av foerfarandet |
FI830749 | 1983-03-07 |
Publications (2)
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EP0139673A1 EP0139673A1 (de) | 1985-05-08 |
EP0139673B1 true EP0139673B1 (de) | 1987-06-16 |
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EP19840901076 Expired EP0139673B1 (de) | 1983-03-07 | 1984-03-07 | Winde |
Country Status (7)
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EP (1) | EP0139673B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JPS60500666A (de) |
DE (1) | DE3464231D1 (de) |
DK (1) | DK525984D0 (de) |
FI (1) | FI70870C (de) |
SU (1) | SU1514243A3 (de) |
WO (1) | WO1984003487A1 (de) |
Families Citing this family (3)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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SE455786B (sv) * | 1986-12-03 | 1988-08-08 | Mikael Evert Gunna Aronowitsch | Anordning for manuell drivning av en vinsch eller liknande drivorgan |
US8386090B1 (en) | 2009-02-13 | 2013-02-26 | Brinly-Hardy Company | System and method for wireless remote operation of an accessory associated with a vehicle |
TW201429855A (zh) * | 2013-01-24 | 2014-08-01 | Zun-Qin He | 導纜裝置 |
Family Cites Families (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB805725A (en) * | 1956-12-11 | 1958-12-10 | Ernst Wieger | Improvements in or relating to powered shovels |
GB1246911A (en) * | 1969-03-04 | 1971-09-22 | U & M Flli Beretta Ing | Improvements in or relating to mechanical systems for the remote control of davit winch hand brakes |
GB1339131A (en) * | 1970-05-14 | 1973-11-28 | Vickers Ltd | Apparatus for load handling at sea |
SE421203B (sv) * | 1980-03-05 | 1981-12-07 | Antti Tapio Ruokolainen | Vinsch med friktionskoppling |
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1983
- 1983-03-07 FI FI830749A patent/FI70870C/fi not_active IP Right Cessation
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1984
- 1984-03-07 DE DE8484901076T patent/DE3464231D1/de not_active Expired
- 1984-03-07 WO PCT/FI1984/000023 patent/WO1984003487A1/en active IP Right Grant
- 1984-03-07 JP JP50115984A patent/JPS60500666A/ja active Pending
- 1984-03-07 EP EP19840901076 patent/EP0139673B1/de not_active Expired
- 1984-11-05 DK DK525984A patent/DK525984D0/da not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1984-11-06 SU SU843816004A patent/SU1514243A3/ru active
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Publication number | Publication date |
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EP0139673A1 (de) | 1985-05-08 |
FI70870B (fi) | 1986-07-18 |
DE3464231D1 (en) | 1987-07-23 |
DK525984A (da) | 1984-11-05 |
DK525984D0 (da) | 1984-11-05 |
FI830749L (fi) | 1984-09-08 |
FI830749A0 (fi) | 1983-03-07 |
SU1514243A3 (ru) | 1989-10-07 |
JPS60500666A (ja) | 1985-05-09 |
WO1984003487A1 (en) | 1984-09-13 |
FI70870C (fi) | 1986-10-27 |
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