US3744373A - Hydraulic driving system - Google Patents

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US3744373A
US3744373A US00188007A US3744373DA US3744373A US 3744373 A US3744373 A US 3744373A US 00188007 A US00188007 A US 00188007A US 3744373D A US3744373D A US 3744373DA US 3744373 A US3744373 A US 3744373A
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    • 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
    • E02F9/20—Drives; Control devices
    • E02F9/22—Hydraulic or pneumatic drives
    • E02F9/2203—Arrangements for controlling the attitude of actuators, e.g. speed, floating function
    • 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
    • F15B11/00—Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action; Circuits therefor
    • F15B11/16—Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action; Circuits therefor with two or more servomotors
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  • ABSTRACT There is provided a hydraulic driving system having two independent driving cycles and comprising two double-acting piston-cylinder assemblies, each of the pistons of which have a specific starting position and is arranged to move from said position through the medium of an interlocking means only when the other piston occupies its starting position.
  • the present invention relates to a hydraulic driving system having two driving cycles which are independent of each other, the system comprising two doubleacting piston-cylinder assemblies, each of the pistons of which have a specific starting position.
  • the system according to the present invention is mainly characterized by an interlocking device so constructed that the piston of one of the piston-cylinder assemblies is movable from its starting position only when the piston of the other piston-cylinder assembly occupies its starting position.
  • a hydraulic driving system constructed in accordance with the invention can be used as a driving means for machines, apparatus etc. which carry out two separate, cyclic operations, of which one cycle may start only when the device associated with the second cycle has reached its starting position.
  • the system is suitable for use with side-tipping loader buckets or excavator scoops of the type which tip towards both sides.
  • the system of the present invention can be used in a number of different ways. For example, it can either be used solely for laterally tipping the buckets or solely to operate the locking means which retain the buckets in position during the different tipping movements, and can also be used to provide both the actual tipping movements and for operating the bucket position locking means.
  • the system of the present invention affords considerable advantages over known, multi-purpose hydraulic driving systems.
  • the system of the present invention is much more compact than the driving system described in my Swedish Pat. No. 317 030, this system comprising one piston-cylinder assembly having a common piston rod which projects out from both sides of the assembly, and despite its compactness is more robust than the known system and has short and strong piston rods, thereby reducing to some extent its volume, which in turn enables it to be installed within a smaller space than the known system, a feature which is highly significant with respect, for example, to loader buckets and excavator scoops, with which a robust driving system which requires but a small installation space is always desirable.
  • the 11.8. Pat. No. 3 419 l7l describes a hydraulic driving system for lateral and front tipping loaders.
  • This known system is provided with two single-acting cylinders provided with spring loaded pistons.
  • the disadvantage with this system is that too much force is required to overcome the inherent strength of the springs and that the system is bulky and requires a relatively large installation space.
  • the system of the present invention also affords advantages of the aforementioned type when compared with the hydraulic driving system known from the French Pat. No. l 366 024, in which are installed spring-loaded pistons, and thus no double-acting piston-cylinder assemblies, and with which system the movements of the two pistons can only be locked in a manner such that one piston is unable to move while the other is moving and thus the pistons are not capable of being locked normally in their starting positions.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates diagrammatically an embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 in a more detailed, practical illustration.
  • a hydraulic driving system includes two doubleacting piston-cylinder assemblies 1, 2 having pistons 3, 4.
  • Each of the pistons has a specific starting position and each of the pistons is capable of being moved through the medium of an interlocking means 5 in a direction from its starting position only when the other piston is located in its starting position.
  • the actual interlocking means 5 comprises at least one hydraulic means and is controlled both mechanically and hydraulically.
  • the system in its entirety is capable of being operated solely by three different control pulses sent from an operating means 6, for example in the form of a four-path hydraulic valve of known design, the control pulses being transmitted to the system through two hydraulic connecting lines 7,8.
  • the system is connected to a hydraulic driving circuit, indicated in the drawing by the reference A, via the operating means 6.
  • FIG. 2 which illustrates the two piston-cylinder assemblies 1,2 connected to form a single unit with the interlocking means therebetween as a common end wall piece
  • the interlocking means 5 need only be provided with one single moving element, namely a sliding piston 9.
  • the piston 9 is provided on its end surface facing the piston-cylinder assembly 1, to the left of the Figure, with a pressure surface which is exposed to a chamber 12 located between the interlocking means 5, which also serves as an end wall piece, and the piston 3 in the piston-cylinder assembly 1 and which communicates with an annular chamber 13 located in the interlocking means 5 through a channel 14 disposed in the sliding piston 9.
  • the sliding piston 9 is also provided with an annular pressure surface 11 which is acted upon in a direction opposite to the pressure surface 10 and arranged on a cylindrical collar portion located on the centre portion of the sliding piston, the area of the annular pressure surface 11 being greater than the area of the pressure surface 10 facing the piston-cylinder assembly 1.
  • the hydraulic line 8 extending from the operating means 6 is connected to the annular chamber 13 and also communicates, via the channel 14 in the slide piston 9, with the chamber 12 between the piston 3 of the piston-cylinder assembly 1 and the interlocking means 5, which also serves as an endwall piece. Furthermore, the hydraulic line 8 is connected with the chamber within the outer end of the piston-cylinder assembly 2, shown to the right of the drawing, through a constantly open line 15.
  • the interlocking means 5 is symmetrical, and hence the sliding piston 9 also includes a second channel 16 which corresponds to the channel 14 and which extends between a chamber 17 located between the other end of the interlocking means 5 and the piston 4 of the piston-cylinder assembly 2, and a second annular chamber 18 at the other end of the cylindrical collar portion of the sliding piston 9.
  • the hydraulic line 7 is connected with the second annular chamber 18 and communicates, via the second channel 16 in the sliding piston 9 with the chamber 17 located between the piston 4 of the piston-cylinder assembly 2 and the interlocking means 5.
  • the hydraulic line 7 also communicates with the space within the outer end of the piston-cylinder assembly 1, via a constantly open line 19.
  • pressure surfaces 20 and 21 Arranged in the space between the piston 4 and the interlocking means 5 and in the second annular chamber 18 at the other end of the cylindrical collar portion of the sliding piston 9 are pressure surfaces 20 and 21 respectively, the area of the pressure surface located in the last mentioned space being greater than that located in the first mentioned space.
  • the four pressure surfaces 10,11,20,21 are arranged in opposed relationship on the ends of the sliding piston and on the ends of the cylindrical collar portion located thereon, the areas of the surfaces 10,20 arranged on the ends of the piston being equal but smaller than the areas of annular surfaces 1 1,21 located on the ends of the collar portion, the area of the surfaces 11,21 also being equal but greater than the area of the surfaces 10,20 located on the ends of the piston.
  • the pressure surfaces 11,21 of larger area communicate through their respective channels 14,16 in the sliding piston 9 with the opposed pressure surfaces of smaller area arranged on the opposite end of the sliding piston.
  • the cylindrical collar on the sliding piston 9 serves as a valve means during movement of the piston for controlling the flow of pressure medium to and from the two annular chambers 13 and 18.
  • the pistons 3,4 of the two pistoncylinder assemblies 1,2 are shown occupying their inner end positions, which comprise the starting positions for the working cycle of the pistons.
  • the hydraulic pistons 3,4 act mechanically against each end of the sliding piston 9 to maintain it in a central position. In this position the connection from one of the hydraulic lines 8 to the chamber 12 at one end of the sliding piston 9, having the associated pressure surface 10, and to the annular chamber 13 at the oppostie end of the collar and having the pressure surface 1 1, is open but presents a constricted through-flow area, while the connection to the space within the outer end of the pistoncylinder assembly 2 is fully open.
  • connection from the second hydraulic line 7 to the two corresponding chambers 17,18 and the pressure surfaces 20,21 located on the opposite ends of the sliding piston and the collar, respectively, is also open but presents a restricted through-flow area while the connection to the space within the outer end of the opposing piston-cylinder assembly 1 is fully open,
  • the supply of pressure medium is switched, by means of the operating means 6, from the hydraulic line 8 to the hydraulic line 7, whereupon pressure medium is drained through the hydraulic line 8 under the action of the supply of pressure medium through the constantly open connection 19, while pressure medium is fed to the second hydraulic line 7 and to the space within the outer end of the piston-cylinder assembly 1, this supply of pressure medium forcing the piston 3 in the piston-cylinder assembly 1 towards its starting position and towards the interlocking means 5.
  • the sliding piston 9 Since the pressure surfaces 10 and l 1 are now subjected to the pressure prevailing in the hydraulic line 8 serving to drain the pressure medium, the sliding piston 9 is maintained in its left stop position as seen in the drawing, i.e., is displaced in a direction towards the still operating left hand piston-cylinder 1. Thus, the connection is closed between the hydraulic line 7, through which the pressure medium is now being supplied, and the piston 4 of the right hand pistoncylinder assembly 2. Thus, the piston-cylinder assembly 2 is also inactive during the return stroke of the pistoncylinder assembly 1, since the interlocking means 5 prevents the piston 4 from moving from its starting position.
  • the interlocking means 5 is re-set to its starting position by moving the sliding piston 9 mechanically from its left hand stopping position, as seen in the drawing, to its centre position, by the piston 3 as said piston, during its return stroke, moves through the last part of its travel towards its original starting position.
  • either the piston 3 of the piston-cylinder assembly 1 or the piston 4 of the piston-cylinder assembly 2 can be caused to effect a working stroke, by supplying pressure medium to either of the hydraulic lines 7,8 by means of the operating means 6.
  • the throttling effect which the cylindrical collar of the sliding piston 9 has on the flow of pressure medium has two purposes, firstly, the constricted flow of pressure medium causes the system to operate slowly around the starting positions of the pistons, and secondly it shortens the length of movement required by the sliding piston to close the inactive piston-cylinder assembly 1,2 at that moment.
  • the illustrated system is also provided with nonreturn valves 22,23 which serve to take up a portion of the return flow of pressure medium over the sliding piston 9 and to permit that of the pistons 3,4 of the pistoncylinder assemblies 1,2, which is inactive at the moment, to move through a slight distance from its starting position and towards the interlocking means 5 serving as a common end wall piece for the piston-cylinder assemblies, this movement being insufficient to influence locking of the piston.
  • each of the pistons 3,4 of the two piston-cylinder assemblies is arranged to remain in or to adopt its starting position in response to a guide pulse which causes the other piston to move from its starting position.
  • Each of the pistons are also arranged to remain in their respective starting positions in response to a guide pulse which causes the other piston to move toward its starting position.
  • a hydraulic driving system having two independent driving cycles comprising a first and a second double-acting piston-cylinder assembly, the piston of each assembly having a specific starting position, and an interlocking valve means between said assemblies for controlling movement of said pistons so that one piston may be moved from its starting position only when the other piston is maintained at its starting position
  • said valve means including a first and a second hydraulic inlet and a sliding piston controlling said inlets, means for selectively supplying hydraulic pressure to said inlets, said sliding piston being at a neutral position when the first and second pistons are at their starting positions and being movable from its neutral position in one direction to a first position when subject to hydraulic pressure through the first inlet so as to close the second inlet and to admit hydraulic pressure to said first piston to move it from its starting position, means for simultaneously supplying hydraulic pressure to the outer end of the second piston to maintain it in its starting position, and means for supplying hydraulic pressure to the outer end of the first piston when at the outer end of its cylinder when desired to return said first piston to its starting position, said sliding valve remaining
  • a hydraulic driving system as claimed in claim 2 wherein said sliding valve is provided with two channels therethrough, each channel affording communication between the surfaces of unequal area of one set.
  • a hydraulic driving system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cylinders of said assemblies are disposed co-axially on opposed sides of said interlocking valve means and secured thereto and said pistons, when in their starting positions, abut said sliding piston when the latter is in its neutral position.

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US4477232A (en) * 1983-01-10 1984-10-16 Mayer James R Hydraulically actuated reciprocating piston pump
WO1990000650A1 (en) * 1988-07-08 1990-01-25 Nordiska Industrimaskiner Ab An arrangement in implement holders for assemblies which include a side-dumping excavating and loading bucket
US5322025A (en) * 1992-05-29 1994-06-21 Steelcase Inc. Adjustable dual worksurface support
US5740868A (en) * 1994-06-04 1998-04-21 Kverneland Klepp As Pressure control circuit for a combination of a reversible plough with a plurality of soil preparation devices coupled therewith

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4477232A (en) * 1983-01-10 1984-10-16 Mayer James R Hydraulically actuated reciprocating piston pump
WO1990000650A1 (en) * 1988-07-08 1990-01-25 Nordiska Industrimaskiner Ab An arrangement in implement holders for assemblies which include a side-dumping excavating and loading bucket
US5322025A (en) * 1992-05-29 1994-06-21 Steelcase Inc. Adjustable dual worksurface support
US5740868A (en) * 1994-06-04 1998-04-21 Kverneland Klepp As Pressure control circuit for a combination of a reversible plough with a plurality of soil preparation devices coupled therewith

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