US3127688A - Hydraulic circuit for control of earthmoving scraper bowls - Google Patents

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US3127688A
US3127688A US247056A US24705662A US3127688A US 3127688 A US3127688 A US 3127688A US 247056 A US247056 A US 247056A US 24705662 A US24705662 A US 24705662A US 3127688 A US3127688 A US 3127688A
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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
    • E02F3/64—Buckets cars, i.e. having scraper bowls
    • E02F3/65—Component parts, e.g. drives, control devices
    • E02F3/652—Means to adjust the height of the scraper bowls, e.g. suspension means, tilt control, earth damping control
    • 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
    • E02F3/64—Buckets cars, i.e. having scraper bowls
    • 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
    • E02F3/64—Buckets cars, i.e. having scraper bowls
    • E02F3/6454—Towed (i.e. pulled or pushed) scrapers
    • E02F3/6481—Towed (i.e. pulled or pushed) scrapers with scraper bowls with an ejector having translational movement for dumping the soil
    • 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
    • E02F3/64—Buckets cars, i.e. having scraper bowls
    • E02F3/65—Component parts, e.g. drives, control devices
    • E02F3/651—Hydraulic or pneumatic drives; Electric or electro-mechanical control devices
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F15—FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL
    • F15B—SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F15B13/00—Details of servomotor systems ; Valves for servomotor systems
    • F15B13/01—Locking-valves or other detent i.e. load-holding devices

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  • the hydraulic circuit of the present invention is an improvement on the circuit disclosed in the Allyn J. Hein et al. Patent No. 3,868,596 for Hydraulic Circuit for Actuation of an Earthmoving Scraper Bowl.
  • the said Hein et al. patent discloses two valves in a bowl jack circuit including a load supporting check valve which prevents escape of fluid from the jack when it is supporting a load elevated with respect to the earth. This prevents the weight of the load from imposing high fluid pressures in the conduits and hoses which connect the jack supported on the scraper with the control valve supported on the tractor.
  • a second or quick drop valve is assocated w-tih each of the bowl lift jacks normally closing communication between the head end of the jack and the rod end of the jack but adapted to be opened to-permit such communication in order to effect quick lowering or dropping of the bowl from a raised position.
  • This quick drop valve is held in its closed position by fluid pressure vented through a line communicating between the scraper and the control valve on the tractor.
  • the line is, therefore, subject to breakage in operation and failure of the line would vent pressure holding the quick drop valve closed creating a hazardous condition because dropping of the bowl from a carry position while the tractor and scraper are traveling at high speed could cause a sudden stop that would throw the operator from his seat.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the hydraulic circuit for a tractor-scraper combination which includes bowl, ejector and apron actuating jacks;
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of one of the bowl lift jacks shown in FIG. 1 including the valve mecha nism associated therewith for accomplishing the objects of the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a side elevation of a tractor-scraper combination illustrating the location of the several components of the hydraulic circuit which control the operation of adjustable elements of the scraper.
  • a conventional two-wheel scraper is illus- 3,1127,688 Patented Apr. 7, 1964 trated at 10 as drawn by a tractor 11 through a hitch or draft connection generally indicated at 12.
  • the main body or bowl of the scraper may be raised and lowered about its pivotal connection with its wheels 13.
  • a pivoted apron 17 is adapted to be raised and lowered for opening and closing the forward end of the bowl by means of a jack 18, lever 18b and link 18c and an ejector 19 is moved forwardly to discharge the contents of the bowl through its forward end by an ejector jack 2%), all in it well known manner.
  • a control valve assembly 22 for controlling the flow of fluid to and from the several jacks is disposed on the tractor as are also control levers, one shown at 23 positioned adjacent the operators station.
  • FIG. 1 of the drawings The hydraulic circuits disclosed in FIG. 1 of the drawings are, generally speaking, the same as those disclosed in the above mentioned Hein et al. patent and will be briefly described herein to facilitate an understanding of the present invention.
  • the control valve assembly comprises a single housing suitably bored for the reception of three sliding type valve spools 16a, 18a and Zita for controlling jacks l6, l8 and 2% which actuate respectively the scraper bowl, apron and ejector.
  • Each of the spools is formed at one end for connection to control levers, not shown, and is fitted at its opposite end with a centering spring assembly shown at 26, 21; and 36.
  • the function of such assembly is well known and only that pertaining to the bowl lift control is shown in detail and will be hereinafter described.
  • a pump 35 delivers fluid under pressure from a reservoir 36 to an inlet passage 37 in the valve housing which is divided to direct fluid selectively toward either end of the valve spool 16a depending upon its position of adjustment.
  • Similar inlet passages 38 and 39 communicate with each other and with the first pasage 37 so that with the valve spools in their neutral positions, as shown, there is a constant flow of fluid under pressure from the pump through the passageways 37, 38 and 39 and a discharge passage 40 and thence back to the reservoir through a return line 41.
  • a relief valve 42 in the pressure line from the pump also has its'discharge side connected with the return line 41.
  • Each of the jacks or sets of jacks has what may be termed a high pressure and a lower pressure end because the work of moving an implement part in one direction as when it is being raised or moving earth is usually greater than that of moving it in the other direction. Movement of any one of the spools to the right connects it with the high pressure end of its associated jack.
  • the spool 16a upon movement toward the right opens communication with the inlet chamber 37 containing fluid under pressure from the pump and directs the fluid into a line 46 and through lines 46a to the rod ends of the jacks 16 for raising the bowl.
  • valve mechanism 64 is not necessary to an understanding of the present invention.
  • the opposite or low pressure ends of the jaoks are all connected with a common manifold 52 which communicates with each of the three bores containing the valve spools and is opened by rightward movement of any spool into communication with a discharge manifold 53, also common to all three spools and communicating with the reservoir through the line 41. Consequently when fluid is directed under pressure to the high pressure side of any of the jacks, fluid on the low pressure side is returned to the reservoir.
  • the common manifold 52 is connected with the jacks through a common line 54 with a branch 55 to the low pressure or head ends of the bowl jacks 1 6, a branch 56 to the rod end of the ejector jack 2t ⁇ and a branch 57 to the rod end of the apron jack through the valve mechanism 64'.
  • Movement of the jacks in the direction opposite to that described above is accomplished by movement of any one of the valve spools in the opposite direction or to the left which communicates high pressure through the actuated spool to the manifold 52 and thence to all of the jacks through line 54 and its branches 55, 56 and 57.
  • the valve spool which has been actuated to the left also opens communication to a discharge passage 68 which is common to all or the spools and similar to the discharge passage 53.
  • the discharge passage 60 permits return of fluid from the jack which has been actuated through the passage 46 and line 51 to the reservoir. Under the condition just described where a single valve spool is actuated and directs fluid to all three jacks, only the selected jack is moved because return flow from the other jacks is blocked by their respective spools which have remained in their neutral position.
  • Pressure in the spring chamber of the check valve 65 is reduced when it is desired to lower the bowl and this is accomplished through a line 72 communicating between the spring chamber and a passage 73 (see FIG. 1) which upon movement of the spool 16a. to the left for lowering the bowl, will communicate with a groove 74 in the spool 16a and through this groove with a second passage 75 in the valve housing, and a bleed line 76 communicating between the passage 75 and the reservoir.
  • pilot piston 78 with an end 79 engageable with the check valve when it is in its closed position. Pressure from the rod end of the jack is communicated through a passage 88 to the interior of the pilot piston 78 moving it to the right as viewed in FIG. 2 and opening the check valve against the closing force of spring 67.
  • a quick drop valve 86 is contained in the housing 66. This valve closes communication between the head end and rod end of the jack by way of a line 55a, passage 88 and line 46a.
  • the valve 86 is opened, as by movement toward the right as viewed in FIG. 2, flow from the rod end to the head end of the jack permits rapid downward movement of the piston due to the weight of the bowl and its contents and without evacuating the head end of the jack.
  • the check or quick drop valve is urged toward its closed position by a spring 8 9 acting against a pilot piston 96 slidable in the valve bore and abutting the valve as shown.
  • the pressure of the spring 89 is augmented by fluid pressure communicated from the line 46 through a passage 91 in the valve housing and communicating with the spring chamber.
  • the pilot piston prevents opening of the quick drop valve when the pressure in passage 88 is less than the pressure in line 46 and the spring chamber.
  • the pressure in the spring chamber is vented through a line 95. This line, as shown in FIG.
  • a spring 98 in the centering spring assembly 26 is used in addition to the conventional centering spring which is shown at 99.
  • a flange 1% on the spring seat engages an amin lus 101 which serves as a seat for the heavier spring 98 providing a stop which can be sensed by the operator. Further leftward movement of the spool is accomplished only by greater operator eflort sufficient to compress the spring 98.
  • valve housings 66 are interconnected by a small line 105 which, as shown in FIG. 2, forms communication between the lines 46a which communicate with the rod ends of the jacks.
  • the load supporting check valve is disposed intermediate the jack 16 and the quick drop valve, the load supporting valve serves in its normally closed condition to prevent flow of fluid from the rod end to the head end of the cylinder. Consequently leakage or breaking of the line which permits opening of the quick drop valve will not result in accidental dropping of the bowl.
  • a tractor drawn earthmoving scraper having a bowl, a hydraulic circuit, means supplying fluid under pressure to said circuit, a double acting hydraulic jack in said circuit for raising and lowering the bowl, and means in said circuit including a control valve on the tractor for directing fluid to said jack, a fluid pas sage between the head and rod ends of the jack a quick drop valve in said passage preventing flow between the head end and rod end of said jack, means normally communicating fluid under pressure to said quick drop valve 3.

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US3788401A (en) * 1972-07-17 1974-01-29 Caterpillar Tractor Co Hydraulic circuit with valve to provide semi-float control of a dozer blade
US3947981A (en) * 1974-12-09 1976-04-06 International Harvester Company Scraper bowl with hydraulic safety lock
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US4088151A (en) * 1976-05-26 1978-05-09 Borg-Warner Corporation Cylinder locking apparatus
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