US3834550A - Crane overload safety device with temperature compensation - Google Patents

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US3834550A
US3834550A US00244021A US24402172A US3834550A US 3834550 A US3834550 A US 3834550A US 00244021 A US00244021 A US 00244021A US 24402172 A US24402172 A US 24402172A US 3834550 A US3834550 A US 3834550A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
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    • 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
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  • a crane overload safety device including at least one pivoted arm connected to a strain measuring device [30] Foreign Application Priority Data adapted to be fixed to a loaded part of the crane.
  • the Apr. 21, 1971 Germany 2119279 pivoted arm is Provided with one or more photocell devices or the like and cooperates with at least one 52 us.
  • the Strain measuring device is in the form of [51 Int. Cl.
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  • Cranes particularly those mounted on motor driven vehicles, need to be equipped with overload safety devices for preventing accidents. This is necessary not only from practical experience but also to comply with relevant legal regulations.
  • overload safety devices Several forms of overload safety devices have already been proposed. Existing overload safety devices are intended in particular to ensure that the crane, mounted on its motor driven vehicle, cannot topple over in operation. This ensurance is of particular importance in the operation of cranes mounted on turntable. In cranes of this kind the highest permissible crane load is limited by the stability of the crane, particularly when the jib extends sideways from the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. To ensure safety the load lifted by the crane must never be as high as 100 percent of the ultimate load determined by the stability of the vehicle on the ground.
  • All the safety devices which have hitherto been proposed for giving warning signals and for actuating systems for preventing further operation of the crane, when the permissible load limit is approached, involve the use of electronic devices, in particular transmitters which deliver signals representing stresses, moments and geometric quantities, for example jib angles, jib extension lengths and the like.
  • the transmitters operate on known comparison principles in which the measured value of a current or voltage is compared with a specified value.
  • the measured values are processed by a central computing device which continuously compares them with stored specified values.
  • signals are automatically delivered which prevent operation of all the crane functions which could increase the load still further.
  • the advantage of this is that the crane operator does not need to observe signals representing stresses and geometric quantities, during operation of the crane and compare the indicated values with the permissible values, which has to read from tables, so that he can adapt the further operation of the crane to the prevailing conditions and safety regulations.
  • Such prior device included at least one pivoted arm connected to a strain measuring device which is adapted to be fixed to a loaded part of the crane, the pivoted arm being provided with one or more photocell devices or the like and cooperating with at least one cam disc.
  • this prior device avoids the use of delicate electronic devices and enables an overload safety device to be constructed using mechanical parts shaped to represent operational parameters, the mechanical parts themselves in the form of the cam disc or discs performing evaluation and comparision functions in such a way that when the permissible load limits are reached signals are delivered which prevent the operation of further load-increasing crane functions.
  • the position of the pivoted arm is determined at any instant by the strain measuring device in dependence on the forces acting on the crane at that instant.
  • the pivoted arm or each pivoted arm cooperates, by means of its photocell device or the like, with the edge of thecam disc, which has a shape representing the permissible values of the relevant parameters, for example the jib angle, the length of the jib extension, the direction of the jib plane relative to the vehicle in the case of a mobile crane, and the nature of the support of the vehicle on the ground.
  • the edge of the cam disc interrupts a beam such as a light beam of the photocell device or the like when the permissible load is reached.
  • the object of the present invention is to improve the overload safety device so as to allow it to function independently of temperature changes.
  • the invention starts out with the idea of utilizing the stress effects in the loaded structural part of the crane for the temperature compensation by suitably attaching the dynamometer to the loaded structural part, using a compensating attachment.
  • the problem is solved according to the invention in that both ends of the strain measuring device, which is in the form of a tension rod dynamometer, are arranged to be attached to the loaded structural part of the crane by multipoint suspension devices. What is essential in the invention is therefore that the tension rod dynamometer is attached to the loaded structural part at geometrically separate points.
  • Each multipoint suspension device preferably consists of two links pivoted to the end of the tension rod dynamometer preferably on a common axis, the other ends of the links being arranged to be attached to the loaded structural part. It has been found thatby this method of attachment the different thermal expansions between the dynamometer and the loaded part are compensated as though the two structures are both at the same temperature.
  • a suspension device which is particularly simple to install on the crane is provided if the attachment points of the links on the loaded part of the crane are situated on either side of the longitudinal axis of the dynamome ter, symmetrically with respect to this axis.
  • the method of attachment of the overload safety device has the further advantage that a particularly simple means of adjustment can be arranged for adjusting the movement ratio between the movement of the pivoted arm and the movement of the pivoted lever of the dynamometer.
  • the pivoted arm is connected to the pivoted lever of the dynamometer by a cable. It is necessary to adjust the movement ratio because the thicknesses of the structural parts of cranes vary from crane to crane, within the manufacturing tolerances. Consequently, for a given crane load, and assuming given crane load conditions, the change in length of the dynamometer tension rod varies from crane to crane. This can falsify the measured values and the switching off action of the overload safety device.
  • the calibration has been effected by selecting a roller or segment disc of suitable diameter.
  • This roller or segment disc is mounted on the axle of the pivoted arm and supports the cable connecting the pivoted arm to the pivoted lever on the dynamometer.
  • the suspension device according to the invention allows the calibration to be effected without any necessity to exchange a part of the overload safety device, or at least allows a coarse calibration to be ob tained.
  • at least one end of the dynamometer may have a slot in which the pivot pin for the ends of the links connected to the dynamometer is adjustable in position by means of an adjustment screw.
  • the two links are preferably made adjustable in length.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic side view of part of a crane jib incorporating an overload safety device
  • FIG. 2 is a section taken along the line Il-II in FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a section taken along the line III--III in FIG.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic plan view of the tension rod dynamometer according to the invention attached to a crane jib;
  • FIG. 5 is a side view corresponding to FIG. 4.
  • an overload safety device 11 is attached by means of a bracket 13 to a crane jib 12, of which the drawings show only a part.
  • the overload safety device 11 has a housing 14 which is subdivided into two compartments 18 and 19 by a wall 17 which supports two shafts 15 and 16.
  • the shaft 16 rotates in a bearing fixed to the wall 17 and extends into both compartments.
  • the part of the shaft 16 in the compartment 18 supports a number of cam discs 21.
  • the rim of each cam disc 21 has a complex'curved shape representing permissible jib loads for varying jib luffing angles a.
  • Each cam disc 21 is divided into four quadrants, each of which represents a particular crane operating condition, that is to say with the crane vehicle supported, for example, by outriggers; the crane vehicle unsupported; the jib in the plane of vehicles longitudinal axis; and the jib in a plane perpendicular to vehicles longitudinal axis. Furthermore, each individual cam disc 21 represents a particular amount of jib extension, for example when the jib is telescoped.
  • the part of the shaft 16 in the compartment 19 supports a pendulum plate 22 which is free to rotate on the shaft 16.
  • a pendulum 24 is attached by an arm to which a photocell or a light source 25 is mounted.
  • a coupling pin 31 projects from the side of the pendulum plate 22. Projecting from the other side of the pendulum plate 22 in a position above the shaft 16 there is a pivot pin 26 from which a control pendulum 27 is suspended.
  • a photocell or light source 28 is mounted on the arm of the control pendulum 27 and this photocell or light source 28 cooperates with the photocell or light source 25 of the main pendulum 24.
  • the arm of the controller pendulum 27 is interrupted by a clearance ring 29 which surrounds the shaft 16.
  • the free ends of the two pendulums 24 and 27 are immersed in a highly viscous liquid contained in the lower part of the compartment 19.
  • the viscous liquid has a damping effect on the two pendulums for the purpose of damping out oscillations when the jib angle is changed. It should be observed that the overload safety device is fixed to the jib by the bracket 13 and therefore follows the jib movements.
  • the coupling pin 31 is capable of fitting into any one of four recesses 23 distributed at intervals around the face of a cam disc adjustment plate 32 which is mounted on the shaft 16 so that it cannot rotate relative to the shaft 16 but can slide axially along the shaft 16, against the action of a spring 33.
  • An extension sleeve of the cam disc adjustment plate 32, extending away from the pendulum plate 22, has a radially projecting rim 34 which cooperates with the rim of a surrounding housing 35.
  • the housing 35 is mounted on a shaft 37 of a windscreen wiper motor 38 fixed to the housing 14 of the overload safety device. The housing 35 cannot rotate relative to the shaft 37 but can slide axially along the shaft 37 against the action of a spring 36.
  • a face cam 39 Fixed to the shaft 37 is a face cam 39 which cooperates with a pin 41 in such a way that when the windscreen wiper motor 38 is set in motion the housing 35 is moved axially along the shaft 37, towards the left as seen in FIG. 2. The rim of the housing 35 then engages frictionally with the radially projecting rim 34 of the cam disc adjustment plate 32, pulling it away from the pendulum plate 22 until the coupling pin 31 comes out of engagement with the recess 23.
  • each arm 42 swings inwards between two cam discs.
  • the arms 42 are counterbalanced by a counterweight 40.
  • the shaft 15 is positioned to one side of the shaft 16 so that when the, arms 42 are vertical they occupy a plane beyond the ends of the radii of the cam discs 21.
  • the free ends of the arms 42 carry photocells or light sources or the like. In the example shown the arms 42 at the extreme right in FIG. 2, furthest away from the windscreen wiper motor, has a light source 43.
  • the arm next towards the left carries two photocells 44, one of which is in line with the light source 43, the other photocell being displaced in position relative to the first and facing in the opposite direction.
  • This photocell cooperates with a light source 45 on the next arm towards the left, this arm having a second light source 46 facing towards the left.
  • the arrangement is repeated all the way to the arm furthest to the left.
  • This manner of arranging the light sources and photocells reduces the amount of electrical wiring to the minimum and also keeps the photocells away from stray beams of light.
  • the wiring can if desired be reduced still further by mounting a lamp bulb 47 centrally on the shaft 15, the light from the bulb 47 being conducted to the locations 43, 45, 46 and any remaining light source locations by light conductors such as optical fibre bundles.
  • each arm 42 can be equipped with auxiliary photocells 43a, 44a situated next to the photocells 43, 44, to provide an early warning system.
  • a pulley wheel 48 is fixed on the left hand end of the shaft as seen in FIG. 2, that is to say the end nearest to the jib 12.
  • One end of a tension cable 49 is fixed to the pulley wheel 48.
  • the cable 49 runs over a second pulley wheel 51, the other end of the cable being attached to a tension rod strain gauge 52 which is fixed to the surface of the lower web, that is to say the compression web, of the crane jib 12.
  • a return tension spring 54 acts on a lever 53 fixed to the shaft 15, the return spring 54 pulling against the tension of the cable 49.
  • the tension rod strain gauge 52 is arranged as follows:
  • the tension rod 59 is installed with a tensile prestress corresponding to the highest permissible compressive stress which can be applied to the web of the crane jib.
  • the tension rod 59 is no longer stressed in tension.
  • the tension rod releases itself from its two anchorages 55. This is to ensure that if the operator disconnects the overload safety device, for example willfully, the device nevertheless suffers no damage.
  • the free end of the cable 49 is attached to a lever 56 pivoted at 57 to a frame of the gauge.
  • the jib is assumed to be unloaded. Under these circumstances the free end of the lever 56 is at a distance h from its other limiting position, corresponding to the highest permissible jib load.
  • a return tension spring 58 holds the lever 56 in contact with an actuating finger 61 on the tension rod 59.
  • This example of the overload safety device operates as follows: Let it be assumed that the jib is initially in the working position shown in FIG. 1.
  • a load lifted by the crane and applied to the jib swings the arms 42 inwards by means of the strain gauge and the cable 49. If the jib load reaches the permissible limit the light beam of the photocell device 43, 44 is interrupted by the edge of the cam disc.
  • the load on the jib allows the tension rod 59 to con tract, the finger 61 pivoting the lever 56 clockwise towards the tension rod.
  • the cable 49 consequently rotates the pulley wheel-48 clockwise, as seen in FIG. 1. This swings the arms 42 towards the shaft 16.
  • the jib load approaches the permissible limit, the light beams of the early-waming photocells 43a, 44a are first interrupte d by the edge of the cam disc 21. This produces an early-warning signal.
  • the light beam of the photocell device 43, 44 is interrupted by the edge of the cam disc, the interruption automatically prevents any crane movements which could increase the jib load still further.
  • a fail-safe effect is obtained as follows. Should the connection between the swinging arms 42 and the rod 59 be interrupted, for example by rupture of the cable 49, potentially dangerous crane movements are prevented by the fact that the return spring 54 immediately swings the arms 42 back into a safety light trap 62, interrupting all the relevant circuits.
  • each individual cam disc represents a particular jib extension, or range of extensions, whereas each of the four quadrants of each cam disc represents a particular crane operating condition.
  • the windscreen wiper motor 38 is started and rotates the face cam 39 relative to the pin 41. This pulls the housing 35 and the cam disc adjustment plate 32 away from the pendulum plate 22, disengaging the coupling pin 31 from the recess 23.
  • the cam disc adjustment plate 32 is then rotated through until the coupling pin 31 engages in the nextrecess 23.
  • the shaft 16 rotates, rotating all the cam discs 21 through 90. The movements leaves the overload safety device re-set for the new operating condition.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate a preferred strain-measuring device in the form of a tension rod dynamometer .lll attached to a crane jib 112, which acts as the stressed structural part. Only a portion of the crane jib is shown in the Figures.
  • the tension rod dynamometer 111 is attached to the crane jib by two suspension devices which will be described in greater detail further below.
  • the tension rod dynamometer l 1 1 is installed prestressed.
  • the two rods 113 and 114 forming the dynamometer are also prestressed against each other, that is to say the inner rod 113 is prestressed against the outer rod 114, the two rods being fixed to each other at one end. This is to prevent damage, particularly to the pivoted arm by collision with the cam disc axle if the prestressing is entirely cancelled by overloading, for example if the crane operator unintentionally by-passes the overload safety device.
  • a cable 115 has one end attached to the pivoted arm mentioned above, the other end of the cable being attached to the end of a pivoted lever 117 which pivots on a pivot pin 116.
  • the pivoted lever 117 is held back by a tension spring 118 so that the pivoted lever rests in contact with an actuating finger 119 fixed to the inner rod 113.
  • the tension rod dynamometer is supported at each end by a multipoint suspension device attached to the stressed structural part 112.
  • the multipoint suspension device consists of two links 121, 122 or 123, 124. One end of each link is pivoted to the structural part 112 by a pivot pin 125, 126, 127, 128.
  • each link is pivoted to one end of the tension rod dynamometer, the links being pivoted to the ends of the tension rod dynamometer in pairs on common pivot pins, that is to say the two links 121, 122 are pivoted to one end of the tension rod dynamometer on the common pivot pin 129, the other two links 123, 124 being pivoted to the other end of the tension rod dynamometer on a common pivot pin 131.
  • the two common pivot pins 129 and 131 are fixed to the two ends of the tension rod dynamometer 111.
  • the dynamometer is suspended as though by toggle joints by the two pairs of links 121, 122 and 123, 124 at the four support points 125, 126, 127, 128 of the stressed structural part 112.
  • a surprisingly effective temperature compensation is obtained in that unequal thermal expansions resulting from temperature differences, which could falsify the stress measurements, are compensated so effectively that the overload safety device functions correctly, responding only to the load conditions of the crane.
  • the distances between each two support points on the same side of the symmetry axis 132 are in each case greater than the length of the dynamometer 111.
  • the arrangement shown in FIG. 4 is thus obtained, the two links of each pair, that is to say the links 121 and 122 and the links 123 and 124, spreading outwards away from the dynamometer.
  • the overload safety device is particularly well suited, due to its special construction, to facilitate the necessary adjustment, mentioned earlier, of the movement ratio between the movement of the pivoted lever 117 and the resulting movement of the pivoted arm. This adjustment is necessary for calibrating the overload safety device to compensate for differences in the thickness of the stressed structural part 112 in different cranes.
  • one end of the dynamometer 111 has a longitudinal slot 133 allowing the pivot pin 131 to be adjusted in position by means of an adjustment screw 134.
  • the lengths of the links 123, 124 are also adjustable. In the present example each link 123, 124 consists of an externally threaded rod pivoted at one end of the pivot pin 127 or 128.
  • Each externally threaded rod cooperates with an internally threaded part pivoted on the common pivot pin 131.
  • This arrangement makes it unnecessary to interfere with the interior of the measurement or switchoff apparatus.
  • the angle between the links 123 and 124 can be changed continuously, that is to say steplessly, to allow for differences in the thickness of the structural part 112, which of course influences the changes in the length of the tension rod, and therefore in the angular position of the pivoted lever 117, produced by changes in the load conditions of the crane.
  • the overload safety device in accordance with the invention is outstanding in the simplicity of its construction. A further considerable advantage is that the construction is particularly resistant to the impact shocks which occur during the operation of a crane. The device is therefore suitable for application to a wide variety of hoisting machines and related devices in which the highest permissible working load is limited by a number of different factors.
  • An overload safety device for a crane comprising a strain measuring device arranged to be mounted on the crane boom, a pivotally mounted arm operatively connected to said strain measuring device, at least one photocell device positioned on said arm, at least one cam device arranged to cooperate with said photocell device to signal overload on the crane boom, wherein the improvement comprises that said strain measuring device is a tension rod dynamometer, and multipoint suspension means for each end of said tension rod dynamometer for separately connecting a common point on each end of said tension rod dynamometer to spaced attachment points on the boom.
  • each of said multipoint suspension means consists of two links each pivoted to the common point on the end of said tension rod dynamometer, and the opposite ends of said links being arranged for attachment to the spaced attachment points on the boom.
  • a device wherein said dynamometer has a longitudinal axis extending through the common points at its opposite ends, and the attachments points of said links to said boom are situated on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of said dynamometer and are symmetrical with respect to the longitudinal axis.
  • a device wherein the distance between each pair of said attachment points located on one side of said longitudinal axis and at the opposite ends of said dynamometer is greater than the length of said dynamometer.
  • a device wherein the distance between each pair of attachment points located on one side of said longitudinal axis and at the opposite ends of said dynamometer is less than the length of said dynamometer.
  • a device wherein at least one end of said dynamometer has a slot extending in the longitudinal direction thereof, a pivot pin forming the common point at one end of said dynamometer and extending through said slot and being adjustably positionable in the longitudinal direction of the slot, and an adjustable screw operatively connected to said pivot pin for positioning it within the slot in the longitudinal direction thereof.
  • mometer comprises an inner rod and an outer rod coextensive with said inner rod and said inner rod and outer rod being pre-stressed against each other.

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