US3795176A - Boom-crowd cylinders with selective sequencing by solenoid valve - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
- B66C—CRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES
- B66C23/00—Cranes comprising essentially a beam, boom, or triangular structure acting as a cantilever and mounted for translatory of swinging movements in vertical or horizontal planes or a combination of such movements, e.g. jib-cranes, derricks, tower cranes
- B66C23/62—Constructional features or details
- B66C23/64—Jibs
- B66C23/70—Jibs constructed of sections adapted to be assembled to form jibs or various lengths
- B66C23/701—Jibs constructed of sections adapted to be assembled to form jibs or various lengths telescopic
- B66C23/705—Jibs constructed of sections adapted to be assembled to form jibs or various lengths telescopic telescoped by hydraulic jacks
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- 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
- F15B11/20—Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action; Circuits therefor with two or more servomotors controlling several interacting or sequentially-operating members
- F15B11/205—Servomotor systems without provision for follow-up action; Circuits therefor with two or more servomotors controlling several interacting or sequentially-operating members the position of the actuator controlling the fluid flow to the subsequent actuator
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- the improper sequencing should be avoided because the successive stepping of size of the boom sections to telescope one within the other results in having a forward section which is considerably weaker than the intermediate section.
- the forward section has enough strength for the loads which can be lifted without upending the supporting vehicle, when both sections are fully extended.
- heavier loads can be lifted, and these heavier loads could cause collapse of the lighter boom section if it were fully extended while the intermediate section remained retracted. There is no such danger when the intermediate section is fully extended and the lighter section retracted within the intermediate section.
- each section is controlled by a hydraulic cylinder which, with its piston, is coupled between it and the next section rearward.
- the old conventional control is to have a manual valve for each cylinder so that the operator can crowd by operating first the valve for the rearmost cylinder and then the valve for the forward cylinder.
- the valve handles are side by side so that if the operator chooses, he can grasp both the handle knobs in one hand, and operate both valves simultaneously.
- This two-valve system necessitates the use of high pressure hoses, wound and paid out by hose reels, for the hydraulic connection to the two ends of the forward cylinder.
- all selectivity desired in the sequencing of the cylinders is provided with a single valve and without hose reels by providing a solenoid valve between the cylinders.
- a small light reel for the connecting cord for controlling the solenoid is the only reel required.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a mobile crane with a three-part boom with which the present invention is especially likely to be used.
- FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are somewhat diagrammatic views of the three-part boom fully retracted in FIG. 2 and fully extended in FIG. 4, with FIG. 3 showing the forward section fully retracted within the fully extended intermediate section.
- FIG. 5 is a partially diagrammatic view showing the hydraulic and electrical connections, including the key solenoid valve, according to the present invention.
- FIG. 1 Mobile hydraulic cranes such as illustrated in FIG. 1 have been very popular for a number of years. Some of these cranes havethree-part booms as illustratedwith a base section 11, an intermediate section 12 which may telescope within the base section 11, and a forward section 13 which may telescope within the intermediate section 12. Of course a sheave head 14 is carried by the forward portion 13, and includes one or more sheaves from which a line 16 hangs, the line 16 carrying the load and being wound or paid out by a hydraulic reel 17 near the base of base section 11.
- the base section can usually be swung up and down and from side to side.
- section 13 is lighter in cross section than section 12 and section 12 is lighter in cross section than section 11.
- the forward section 13 need only withstand the torque arm represented by its length, whereas the intermediate section 12 must withstand a torque arm all of the way from the line to the base of the intermediate section 12, and the base section 11 must withstand the same weight on a still greater torque arm.
- the safest method of operating a boom with three sections is to makea practice of keeping the forward section fully telescoped within the intermediate section except when more boom length is required than full extension of the intermediate section will provide.
- Some operators may have a preference (especially if the forward cylinder is of smaller crosssection and hence moves faster) for operating both the crowd cylinders at once. but will still usually be careful not to have the forward sectionex tending from the intermediate section more than the intermediate section extends from the base section.
- FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 represent the safest practice.
- the operator With sections 11, 12 and 13 initially fully telescopecl within one another, the operator (with two reversing valves or with this invention) will supply pressure fluid only to cylinder 21, so that the only telescopic action is between base section 11 and intermediate section 12, until the condition of FIG. 3 is reached or approached.
- the intermediate section 12 is fully extended, but the forward section 13 is still fully retracted within the intermediate section 12.
- oil under pressure will be supplied to the forward cylinder 22 so that it will extend the forward section 13 outwardly from the intermediate section 12 until eventually the full extension shown in FIG. 4 is reached.
- Cylinder 21 has a piston 23 with a piston rod 24.
- Cylinder 22 has a piston 26 with a piston rod 27.
- Each cylinder is carried somewhat floatingly by a ring 28 carried by the boom section which it controls, and each piston is connected by a horizontal pin 29 to the next rearward boom section.
- crowd control handle 31 When crowd control handle 31 is pressed forwardly, it actuates conventional reversing valve 32 to supply oil to crowd line 33. This leads, through such flexible and perhaps swivel connections as may be needed, to crowd passage 34 in piston rod 24. This passage extends through the head of piston 23 to open into crowd chamber 35, so that the hydraulic fluid exerts its great force toward producing forward movement of cylinder 21 and its associated intermediate section 12.
- a line 36 leads toward passage 37 in forward piston rod 27 and this passage again extends through the head of piston 26 into crowd chamber 38 so that the fluid pressure can also urge forwardly the cylinder 22 and its associated forward boom section 13.
- valve 39 is the inclusion of valve 39 in line 36 so that this line may be kept initially closed.
- valve 39 is a solenoid valve which remains closed all the time except when a button 41 on handle 31 is pressed. Accordingly when the operator initially thrusts handle 31 forwardly without pressing button 41, valve 39 prevents flow of oil to chamber 38 and hence the oil can only expand chamber 35. Therefore intermediate boom section 12 is the first to be extended, of course carrying forward boom section 13 with it, but fully retracted within it.
- forward boom section 13 retract fully into intermediate boom section 12 before the retracting movement of boom section 12 be' gins. Fortunately this usually results from the fact that boom section 13 is only partly extended and boom section 12 is fully extended. When boom section 12 is fully extended it exerts maximum torsional or cantilever force on its bearing pads 56 and 57 which will at'this time be relatively close together. This gives these hearing pads maximum frictional resistance to resist premature retraction of boom section 12. Since boom section 13 will usually not be fully extended, the torsional or cantilever pressures on its bearing pads 58 and 59 will be relatively less, and the resulting resistance to retraction of forward boom section 13 will be relatively less, so that this boom section will retract first.
- reel 43 be carried by the moving element and positioned to pay out its cord 42 along a supporting surface with respect to which the cord would be stationary.
- reel 43 has been shown adjacent to solenoid 44 for illustrative convenience, it would more likely be positioned near the bottom of the cross section of boom section 13.
- boom section l3 fully collapsed within boom section 12
- boom section 12 moves jointly with boom section 12 as boom section 12 is extended and retracted
- the cord 42 would be laid out along the bottom inner surface 61 of base boom section II during extension, and during retraction would be reeled in from this surface.
- Such electrical reels, spring actuated to maintain a suitable tension on the cord they pay out or reel in are already well known.
- valve 39 there could be an unloading valve instead of or parallel to valve 39 which, in response to attaining a given maximum oil pressure in chamber 35, would open to connect also chamber 38. This pressure would normally only be attained when cylinder 24 had reached the limit of its expansion of chamber 35. To avoid power loss this valve, once opened, could remain open until the extending action through it ceased.
- valve 39 can be bypassed by a check valve permitting retraction flow while valve 39 is closed, so that button 41 need not be depressed during retraction.
- valve 39 if not bypassed as mentioned in the previous paragraph, could replace one of them.
- piston rods are shown only diagrammatically.
- piston rod would be a tube with a relatively small tube within.
- One passage would be inside the smaller tube.
- the inner tube would be small enough to provide the other passage around it.
- Reference to a single manual reversing valve does not exclude companion valves for delivering fluid from another pump to the same line for increased speed.
- hydraulic circuitry for the two cylinders including a single manual reversing valve controlled by an actuator means at an operators position, the rear cylinder and piston combination having two pairs of ports, one leadingthrough the piston rod to the opposite faces of the piston and the other from the opposite ends of the cylinder, one of said pairs of ports being connected to the reversing valve through nonextending lines at the base section and communicating through the other pair of ports I through nonextending lines leading to the forward cylinder and piston combination, whereby the single control valve can pass hydraulic fluid to and from at least the rear cylinder and piston combination for extension ofit, whether or not the other extends;
- a solenoid valve in a connection between the two cylinder and piston combinations located remotely from the operator and controlled by a circuitcloser located at the operators position to be operable by the operator at will for selecting the time at which oil directed to the rear cylinder by the manual reversing valve is permitted to flow to the forward cylinder.
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EP0259901A2 (en) * | 1986-09-08 | 1988-03-16 | Raymond Keith Foster | Drive/frame assembly for a reciprocating floor |
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WO1998004492A1 (en) * | 1996-07-26 | 1998-02-05 | Trimatic A/S | Telescope |
WO1999020559A2 (en) * | 1997-10-17 | 1999-04-29 | Compact Truck Ag | Hydraulic oil feed plunger cylinder |
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WO2007039084A1 (en) * | 2005-09-30 | 2007-04-12 | Magna Powertrain Ag & Co Kg | Hydraulic system for controlling two actuators, discharge valve for such a system and gear unit comprising such a system |
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EP3064782A1 (en) * | 2015-03-06 | 2016-09-07 | Otto Nussbaum GmbH & Co. KG | Cylinder piston unit |
WO2016142202A1 (en) * | 2015-03-06 | 2016-09-15 | Otto Nussbaum Gmbh & Co. Kg | Cylinder/piston unit |
CN115477239A (en) * | 2022-07-04 | 2022-12-16 | 韶关市起重机厂有限责任公司 | Automatically controlled hoist order telescopic system that realizes |
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Owner name: FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO THE, Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:PETTIBONE CORPORATION;REEL/FRAME:004244/0206 Effective date: 19840217 |
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