US3907120A - Hydrostatic system for overhead crane trolley - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
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- B66C11/00—Trolleys or crabs, e.g. operating above runways
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- the tank contains essentially all hydraulic and electrical operating components as well as the high pressure hydraulic piping for operation of the hoisting and traverse functions of the overhead crane trolley. Oil within the tank is free to circulate between the tank and the enclosed portion of the trolley side truck making full use of peripheral wall surface to dissipate heat for maintaining temperature of the 011 within allowable limits.
- the field of art to which the invention pertains includes the art of Traversing Hoists" and more particularly to hydraulic actuating systems therefor.
- This invention relates to an improved system for operation of overhead crane trolleys and more particu larly to an improved hydrostatic system therefor.
- the system in accordance herewith completely encloses and submerges all high pressure hydraulically operated components and all high pressure piping that operationally control the hoisting and traverse functions of the crane. Enclosure of the components and piping is within a hermetically sealed oil filled tank reservoir supported overhead at the trolley elevation and which utilizes its available exterior walls as a thermally conductive surface by which temperature of the contained oil is maintained within allowable temperature limits.
- a novel holding brake mechanism is provided by which to operate the brake normally associated with positioning and holding of the crane hook.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view, partially in section, of an overhead crane trolley employing the hydrostatic system in accordance herewith;
- FIG. 2 is an end elevation
- FIG. 3 is a side elevation as viewed substantially along the lines 3-3 of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 4 is a side elevation, partially in section, as viewed substantially along the lines 4-4 of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the operable hydraulic circuitry employed herein.
- trolley 10 is a 3-point support trolley adapted for traversal operation on parallel rails 12 and 14 in turn supported on bridge girders (not shown).
- a truck that includes a partially enclosed frame 21 supported on rail 14 by means of a drive wheel 26 and a longitudinally displaced trailer wheel 22.
- a cylindrically elongated rope drum 32 Laterally extending in a T-like formation from a support in frame 21 is a cylindrically elongated rope drum 32.
- drum 32 is supported within the hub of a third fiangeless wheel 36 adapted for traverse movement over guide rail 12.
- Formed in the periphery of the drum are right hand rope guides 38 and left hand rope guides 40 between which the drum supports rope sheave's 42.
- Beneath sheaves 42, reeved rope 43 supports a block 44 carrying a load hook 46.
- Rotation of the drum effects required raising and lowering of load hook 46 while a spring biased holding brake mechanism 50 is operative as will be described for securing the load hook at any set position.
- an electric motor 52 operably attached at opposite ends to hydrostatic pumps 54 and 56. All of these components are contained in an elongated hermetically sealed tank 58 comprised of side, top and bottom walls 62 formedof corrugated steel approximately /8 inch in thickness.
- the tank is supported at or about the trolley elevation and together with the enclosed portion of frame 21 forms the reservoir for system oil 60. Exterior wall surface of the reservoir is predetermined to at least provide adequate heat transfer sufficient to conductively maintain temperature of oil within allowable limits not to exceed about 180F.
- Each of the motor and pumps are of the type commercially available from Sundstrand Hydro-Transmission of Ames, Iowa.
- the level of oil 60 within tank 58 is at least sufficient to submerge the aforementioned components.
- Volume output of pumps 54 and 56 and the direction of hydraulic flow to hydraulic motors 64 and 66 are individually controlled electrically by remotely located joy sticks 65 and 67 through which crane trolley operation is governed.
- Joy stick 67 acts to operate the hoisting functions while joy stick 65 acts to operate the traverse functions.
- the first of the systems is the dynamic braking hydraulically afforded by the closed hydraulic loop formed by conduits 76, 78 and 80 between motor 66 and pump 56. Being a closed loop, inoperability or significantly curtailed operability of the pump inherently brakes the system.
- the second braking system is provided by the pilot operated counterbalance valve 70 connected between conduit 78 and 80 serving to trap oil in conduit 80 between it and the load side of hoist motor 66. When oil is trapped in that manner, the hoist motor is prevented from rotating in the lowering direction until pilot pressure is applied from pump 56 via conduits 76 and 82 for releasing counterbalance valve 70.
- Providing the third braking system is a spring set normally closed, shoe brake 50 having a hydraulic operating cylinder 84.
- Cylinder 84 is in turn supplied via conduit 88, solenoid valve 90, conduit 92 and flow control valve 94 by a charge pump 86, integrally part of hoist pump 56.
- line 92 is open to the tank and spring 74 operates to close brake 50.
- Solenoid 90 is energized by controller 67 being moved slightly toward hoist or lowering position to actuate brake cylinder 84 for opening brake 50 in opposition to spring 74.
- Flow control valve 94 operates to introduce a predetermined time delay so that under normal operation the hoisting and/or lowering motion is arrested before closing brake 50, thereby avoiding undue wear on the brake lining.
- a novel system for operation of an overhead crane trolley in which all the operating components are hydraulically actuated and all are submerged in a hermetically sealed tank supported at the trolley level.
- the tank comprises the oil reservoir and by its enclosing walls provides sufficient exterior surface area for conductively cooling of the oil in order to maintain oil temperature within allowable limits.
- the noise level normally associated with high pressure hydraulic systems of the prior art is substantially if not completely eliminated.
- the system is able to operate the holding brake with a time delay that sets after all motion of the load hook stops thereby preventing excessive wear on the brake shoes as would otherwise be encountered.
- With the predominance of hydraulic piping and all high pressure piping likewise being contained within the oil tank reservoir, the entire system is substantially isolated against the possibility of hydraulic spray typical of failure occurring in a hose or other hydraulic pressure conduits of the prior art.
- a hydrostatic system for operating an overhead crane trolley comprising in combination:
- a crane trolley supported overhead and operable when actuated to effect traversal and hoisting functions
- a sealed tank supported at the general elevation of the crane trolley and adapted to contain a fill of hydrostatic oil
- control means to independently actuate said first and second hydraulic motors for independently effecting operation of their respective actuating functions
- a plurality of braking systems operably controlled by said tank supported components and operably interacting with each other, one of said braking systems being hydraulically responsive to forming of an oil trap thereto, another of said braking systems being dynamically responsive to reduction in hydraulic supply pressure within a closed hydraulic loop thereto, and still another of said braking systems being mechanically operable and comprising a pair of brake shoes movable into and out of braking relation with a braking surface and a hydraulic unit operably connected to said brake shoes and effective when energized to actuate said shoes toward said braking relation; and i f. flow control means introducing a controlled time delay in energizing said hydraulic brake unit following occurrence of events requiring said mechanical braking system to be actuated.
- a hydrostatic system according to claim 1 in which the exterior walls of said tank are thermally conductive to afford conductive cooling of said oil fill.
- a hydrostatic system in which said trolley includes a frame support at least a portion of which is enclosed and is located juxtaposed to said tank and the walls of said enclosed frame portion to- 'gether with the walls of said tank provide a predetermined surface area for conductively cooling said oil fill to within a predetermined limit of temperature rise.
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