EP3959382A1 - Tilting device for implements of soil-shifting machine - Google Patents

Tilting device for implements of soil-shifting machine

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EP3959382A1
EP3959382A1 EP20733321.2A EP20733321A EP3959382A1 EP 3959382 A1 EP3959382 A1 EP 3959382A1 EP 20733321 A EP20733321 A EP 20733321A EP 3959382 A1 EP3959382 A1 EP 3959382A1
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coupling
yoke
implement
transverse
plane
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Hendrik Gerard VAN DEN BROEK
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Van Den Broek Techniek
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02F—DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F3/00—Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines
    • E02F3/04—Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines mechanically-driven
    • E02F3/28—Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines mechanically-driven with digging tools mounted on a dipper- or bucket-arm, i.e. there is either one arm or a pair of arms, e.g. dippers, buckets
    • E02F3/36—Component parts
    • E02F3/3604—Devices to connect tools to arms, booms or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66F—HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD
    • B66F11/00—Lifting devices specially adapted for particular uses not otherwise provided for
    • B66F11/04—Lifting devices specially adapted for particular uses not otherwise provided for for movable platforms or cabins, e.g. on vehicles, permitting workmen to place themselves in any desired position for carrying out required operations
    • B66F11/044—Working platforms suspended from booms
    • B66F11/046—Working platforms suspended from booms of the telescoping type
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66F—HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD
    • B66F9/00—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes
    • B66F9/06—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks
    • B66F9/065—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks non-masted
    • B66F9/0655—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks non-masted with a telescopic boom
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02F—DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F3/00—Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines
    • E02F3/04—Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines mechanically-driven
    • E02F3/28—Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines mechanically-driven with digging tools mounted on a dipper- or bucket-arm, i.e. there is either one arm or a pair of arms, e.g. dippers, buckets
    • E02F3/36—Component parts
    • E02F3/3604—Devices to connect tools to arms, booms or the like
    • E02F3/3677—Devices to connect tools to arms, booms or the like allowing movement, e.g. rotation or translation, of the tool around or along another axis as the movement implied by the boom or arms, e.g. for tilting buckets
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02F—DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F9/00—Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F3/00 - E02F7/00
    • E02F9/006—Pivot joint assemblies

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  • Structural Engineering (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Civil Engineering (AREA)
  • Mining & Mineral Resources (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
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  • Pivots And Pivotal Connections (AREA)

Abstract

Device (1) for allowing pivoting in the transverse direction of an implement (2) relative to the implement coupling of a manipulation arm, in use mounted between the implement coupling and an implement. By means of a pivot yoke (7) with two off-centre pivot axes (8, 11), a first yoke (3) and a second yoke (5) can be pivotably driven to the right (R) or left from a centre position, allowing the implement to be "tilted" either to the left or to the right.

Description

Title: Tilting device for implements of soil-shifting machine
DESCRIPTION
The invention relates to a device which is intended and arranged as a transverse hinge device for allowing an implement to be pivoted in the transverse direction (for example a closed bucket, a set of pallet forks, etc.) relative to an implement coupling of a manipulation arm of a soil-shifting, loading, reaching or similar device or vehicle, which manipulation arm and/or implement coupling are pivotable in an essentially vertical plane of principle motion (see for example
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovel,
https ://en. wiki pedia.org/wi ki/Loader_(equipment),
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreiker,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescopic_handler,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator).
Object of the present invention is to provide a transverse hinge device, also referred to as tilting or pivoting device, having a very small distance ("depth") between, on the one hand, the coupling plane with the implement and, on the other hand, the coupling plane with the implement coupling of the manipulation arm. Due to the fact that this distance (at least in the central position of the transverse hinge device) is small, usually it is not necessary to disassemble the transverse hinge device during operation, when 'tilting' the implement to the right or to the left is not necessary, i.e. swivel or hinge in transverse direction. Because the transverse hinge device thus always remains attached to the manipulation arm, even during exchanging the implement (e.g. excavator bucket) for another implement (e.g. a set of pallet forks), time is saved.
According to the invention, a device intended and arranged as a transverse hinge device is provided for pivoting of an implement in transverse direction relative to a implement coupling of a manipulation arm of an soil-shifting, loading, handler or a similar device or vehicle, which manipulation arm and/or implement coupling is pivotable in a essentially vertical main plane of motion, which transverse hinge device in use is arranged between an implement coupling of the manipulation arm and an implement, wherein the transverse hinge device comprises a first coupling yoke arranged for coupling to the implement coupling of the manipulation arm at a first coupling plane, and a second coupling yoke arranged for coupling to the implement at a second coupling plane, wherein the transverse hinge device further comprises a pivot yoke arranged for
(a) pivoting the first coupling yoke relative to the pivot yoke around a first pivot assembly with a pivot axis essentially distanced (+d) from the centre towards one side (R), in order to perform a transverse movement of the first coupling yoke in a transverse plane of motion, perpendicular to said plane of principle motion, between a zero position in which the coupling planes of both coupling yokes extend parallel to each other, and a first angular position in which the coupling planes of both coupling yokes are at an angle unequal to 0° relative to each other in the direction of that one side, and
(b) pivoting the second coupling yoke relative to the pivot yoke around a second pivot assembly with a pivot axis essentially distanced (-d) from the centre towards the other side (L), in order to perform a transverse movement of the second coupling yoke in a transverse plane of motion, perpendicular to said plane of principle motion, between said zero position, in which the coupling planes of both coupling yokes extend parallel to each other, and a second angular position in which the coupling planes of both coupling yokes are at an angle unequal to 0° relative to each other in the direction of that other side.
The device according to the invention forms, so to speak, a Z-shaped construction, wherein the Z is being formed successively by: the first coupling yoke, the pivot yoke and the second coupling yoke, wherein the first coupling yoke and the pivot yoke are mutually pivotably interconnected via a first ("eccentric") pivot assembly on one side thereof. The second coupling yoke is pivotable connected to the pivot yoke via a ("eccentric") pivot assembly located on the other side of the pivot yoke. The first coupling yoke enables, together with the pivot yoke, "tilting" of the implement to one side. The second coupling yoke, again together with the (centrally located) pivot yoke, enables "tilting" of the implement to the other side.
Preferably, the transverse hinge device comprises drive means, for example hydraulic drive cylinders, and control means adapted to drive the coupling yokes relative to the pivot yoke such, that the coupling planes of these yokes either extend parallel to each other, or extend at an angle unequal to 0° to the one side or extend at an angle unequal to 0° to the other side. The invention will now be further discussed with reference to the figure description below.
Figure 1 shows in 3D an embodiment of the device according to the invention;
Figures 2a-c show schematically the operation of the exemplary embodiment shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 and 2a-c show an exemplary embodiment of a device according to the invention, which is intended and arranged as a transverse hinge device 1 for pivoting an implement 2 (side A) in the transverse direction relative to an implement coupling (side B) of a manipulation arm of a soil-shifting, loading, handler or similar device or vehicle, which manipulation arm and/or implement coupling are pivotable in an essentially vertical plane of principal motion.
In use, the transverse hinge device 1 is arranged between an implement coupling of the manipulation arm and an implement, wherein the transverse hinge device 1 comprises a first coupling yoke 3 which is provided with a coupling construction 4a for coupling with the implement coupling of the manipulation arm at first coupling plane 4 (on side B). Furthermore, the transverse hinge device comprises a second coupling yoke 5 provided with a coupling construction 6a for coupling with the implement at second coupling plane 6 (on side A).
Furthermore, the transverse hinge device 1 comprises a pivot yoke 7 arranged for (a) pivoting the first coupling yoke 3 relative to the pivot yoke 7 around a first pivot assemby with a pivot axis 8 located in the direction of one side R, essentially distanced +d from the centre M (the vertical centre plane, usually corresponding with the vertical plane of principal motion of the manipulating arm and/or the implement coupling of the respective soil-shifting, loading, handler or similar device or vehicle) of the transverse hinge device 1, for performing a transverse movement 9 of the first coupling yoke 3 in a plane of transverse motion, perpendicular to the aforementioned plane of principal motion 10, between a zero position, in which the coupling planes 4 and 6 of both coupling yokes 3 and 5 extend parallel to each other (see Figure 1 and Figure 2a), and a first angular position (see Figure 2b), wherein the coupling planes 4 and 6 of both coupling yokes 3 and 5 are at an angle a unequal to 0° relative to each other in the direction of that one side, side R, and (b) pivoting the second coupling yoke 5 relative to the pivot yoke 7 around a second pivot assembly with a pivot axis 11 located in the direction of the other side L, essentially distanced -d from the centre M, to perform a transverse movement 12 of the second coupling yoke 5 in a plane of transverse motion, perpendicular to said plane of principal motion 10, between said zero position, wherein the coupling planes of both coupling yokes extend parallel to each other (see figure 1 and figure 2a), and a second angular position b in which the coupling planes 4 and 6 of both coupling yokes 3 and 5 are at an angle unequal to 0° relative to each other in the direction of that other side, side L The transverse hinge device 1 is provided with drive means, represented in Figure 2a-c by hydraulic drive cylinders 13 and 14 and control means (not shown), which are arranged for driving the coupling yokes 3 and 5 relative to the pivot yoke 7 such, that the coupling planes 4 and 6 of the device either extend parallel to each other (see Figure 1 and Figure 2a) or extend at an angle a unequal to 0° to one side R or at an angle b unequal to 0° to the other side L
Accordingly, the present invention provides for a transverse hinge device with a very small distance ("depth") between, on the one hand, the coupling plane 6 with the implement and, on the other hand, the coupling plane 4 with the implement coupling of the manipulation arm. Since this distance D is small in the central position of the transverse hinge device (the rest position, in which the - main directions of - the coupling yokes 3 and 5 extend parallel to each other and to the pivot yoke 7), it is in most cases unnecessary to disassemble the transverse hinge device when the transverse hinge device is not actually being used .

Claims

1. Device (1) intended and arranged as a transverse hinge device for pivoting an implement (2) in transverse direction relative to an implement coupling of a manipulation arm of a soil-shifting, loading, handler or similar device or vehicle, which manipulation arm and/or implement coupling are pivotable in an essentially vertical plane of principal motion,
which transverse hinge device in use is arranged between an implement coupling of a manipulator arm and an implement,
wherein the transverse hinge device comprises a first coupling yoke (3) arranged for coupling to the implement coupling of the manipulator arm at a first coupling plane (4), and a second coupling yoke (5) arranged for coupling to the implement at a second coupling plane (6),
wherein the transverse hinge device comprises a pivot yoke (7) arranged for
(a) pivoting the first coupling yoke relative to the pivot yoke around a first pivot axis (8) located to one side (R) essentially distanced (+d) from the centre (M), to perform a transverse movement (9) in a transverse plane of motion, perpendicular to said plane of principal motion (10), between a zero position, in which the coupling planes of both coupling yokes extend parallel to each other, and an first angular position, in which the coupling planes of both coupling yokes are at an angle (a) unequal to 0° relative to each other in the direction of that one side, and
(b) pivoting the second coupling yoke with respect to the pivot yoke around a second pivot assembly with a pivot axis ( 11) located to the other side (L) essentially distanced (-d) from the centre, to perform a transverse movement (12) of the second coupling yoke in a transverse plane of motion, perpendicular to said principal plane of motion, between said zero position, in which the coupling planes of both coupling yokes extend parallel to each other, and a second angular position in which the coupling planes of both yokes are at an angle (b) unequal to 0° relative to each other in the direction of that other side.
2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the transverse hinge device comprises drive means and control means arranged in such a way, that the coupling planes of the coupling yokes with respect to the pivot yoke extend either parallel to each other or at an angle unequal to 0° to one side or at an angle unequal to 0° to the other side.
3. Device according to claim 2, wherein the drive means include one or more hydraulic drive cylinders ( 13, 14) .
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NL1043237A NL1043237B1 (en) 2019-04-23 2019-04-23 Tilting device for attachments of excavators, etc., comprising coupling yokes each connected to a pivot yoke via an eccentric hinge
PCT/NL2020/050260 WO2020218923A1 (en) 2019-04-23 2020-04-22 Tilting device for implements of soil-shifting machine

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