US799090A - Pile-driver. - Google Patents

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N0- 799,090. PATENTED SEPT. 12, 1905.

A. A. RAYMOND.

PILE DRIVER.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.15, 1903.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATBNTED SEPT. 12, 1905.

A. A. RAYMOND.

PILE DRIVER.

APPLICATION FILED 1120.15, 1903.

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J five/7 gwfiw P 4 4i izi'zrornez/s No. 799,090. I PATENTED SEPT. 12, 1905. A. A. RAYMOND.

PILE DRIVER.

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ALFRED A. RAYMOND, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO RAYMOND CONCRETE PILE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEl V JERSEY.

PlLE-DRIVER.

N 0. 799,090. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 15, 1903. Serial No. 185,247.

Patented Sept. 12, 1905.

T (LIZ 'wlwm it y ("H/beer"! of forming the hammer with guides I pro- Be it known that I, ALFRED A. RAYMOND, vide the same with vertical lugs 7 on opporesiding at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, site sides, as seen in Fig. a, so as to slide up haveinvented certain new and nsefulImproveand down between the flanges of I-beams of 5 ments in Pile-Drivers, of which the following which the extensions are made, as will be is a specification. understood from the following description of My invention relates to what are commonly such extensions. designated as pile-drivers? and the object The extensions comprise in the present inthereof is to provide a novel and efficient stance two vertical parallel I-beams 8, held 10 machine of this character whose advantages together as a frame by means of a series of and features of utility will be made apparent yoltes 9, which are sufiiciently curved or outfrom the description hereinafter given. wardly bowed to permit the hammer to travel In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevaup and down without interference, allas made tion of my machine mounted on a portable apparent in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. Any desired 5 frame and with the extensions shown raised number of these yoltes may bensed as strength in operative condition above the permanent and rigidity require. leaders and in dottedlines showing the folded As indicated in Fig. l, the outer channels position of the leaders and extensions; Fig. of the I-beams of the extensions receive the 2, a side elevation of the upper portion of the leaders 1, so that such extensions are capable 2O extensions; Fig. 3, a front elevation thereof; of sliding up and down between the leaders.

Fig. A, a sectional plan on line 4 4 of Fig. 1; The inner channels of these extensions re- Fig. 5, a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 6, illustratceive the lugs T of the hammer, so that the lating a modified construction of headblock; ter is capable of traveling up and down he- Fig. 6, an elevation of such modified headtween the extensions themselves, serving as 5 block, partly in section; Fig. 7, a section of guides.

the upper end of one of the leaders; Fig. 8, The usual head-block, in which the pulleys So a detail view of the clamp on the lower poror sheaves 10 are mounted and which ordition of the extensions; Fig. 9, a perspective narily rests upon the top of the permanent of my form of drop-hammer, and Fig. 10 a leaders, is by preferencepermanently secured 3 modified form of leader and beam secured to the top of the extensions, as shown in Fig.

thereto. 2, with the result that such extensions, to- As herein shown, the pile-driver frame is gether with the attached head-block, may be of the usual and well-known construction eomraised or may, in fact, be lowered for driving prising the two vertical and permanent leadpiles below ground, in which latter case the 35 ers 1, (usually wooden timbers square in head-block would travel downwardly between crosssection,) inclined timbers 2, commonly the permanent leaders, inasmuch as it is atcalled ladders, cross-braces 3, and diagonal tached to the extensions. However, in case braces also additional braces 5. it is not desired that the extensions be thus My invention has application to both the depressed and the same are to be raised only 4 steam-hammer and drop-hammer type of pilethe head-block may be adapted to rest upon drivers; but I have chosen to represent in or be detachably connected to either the leadthe principal figures of the drawings the apers or the extensions, so that when the extenplication thereof to the steam-hammer type. sions are raised the head-block may be trans- I Will therefore describe my invention with ferred to the top of such extensions and rest 45 relation to this type of hammer and then dethereupon and be retransferred to the leaders scribe the same in connection with the other when the extensions are lowered to normal I type. position.

Heretofore the hammer, including frame Referring to the construction of head-block and striker, represented at 6 and of the ordiattached to the extensions, such head-block is 5 nary steam-operated type, has been so demade of two parallel I-beams 11, upon which signed as to slide up and down between the are mounted the bearings 12 for the pulleys I 5 permanent leaders by having guides formed or sheaves 10. These beams rest upon and thereon, so as to directly engage the sides of are secured to angle-plates 13, such plates bethe leaders. In the present instance instead ing in turn secured to the extensions.

In the instance of the modified form of construction the head-block is built up of two parallel I-beams 11 and two transverse 1- beams 11, upon which are mounted the bearings 12 for the pulleys or sheaves 10 hereinbefore referred to. The flanges of the beams 11 are provided near opposite ends with an outer and inner series or set of holes 14: and 15, respectively, the outer set 14 being arranged to receive dowel-pins l6, projecting upwardly from the top of the permanent leaders, and the inner set 15 being arranged to receive similar pins 17, projecting upwardly in like manner from the top of the extensions, all as clearly illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6.

When the head-block is resting upon the top of the leaders, Fig. 6, and the extensions are in their lowered position, the holes 14 of such head-block are engaged by their pins 16. When the extensions are raised in the manner hereinafter explained, their pins 17, which normally rested below the head-block in inoperative position, as indicated in Fig. 6, enter the holes 15 of the head-block, so that the latter is centered and secured upon the extensions. Continued elevation of the extension carries the head-block upwardly, inasmuch as it has been transferred to the extensions and becomes aflixed thereto in the manner described. The head-block now performs on the extensions the same functions which it performed upon the permanent leaders.

When the extensions are lowered, the headblock will of course descend with them and eventually take its place upon the leaders, to which it is thus automatically retransferred and secured against lateral displacement.

The pulleys or sheaves 1O cooperate with the rope or cable 18, which passes over the pulley or sheave 19, journaled to the hammer at the cylinder end thereof, Figs. 1 and 1, and which extends downwardly to the hoisting-drums in the usual manner that requires no description. To properly deflect and guide the hoisting rope or cable, I provide a pulley 20, which is secured to the inner one of two side plates 21, which are riveted to the extensions at the top thereof, and thereby connect their flanges, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 8.

Toward its upper end, Fig. 1, each of the leaders has aslot23, in which is journaledasheave 24:, as illustrated in detail in Fig. 7. Such sheaves may be located at any desired position along the length of the leaders, even, in fact, on top thereof. Each leader in the present instance has on its inner side toward the extensions and below the sheave 2 1 a vertical or longitudinal groove or channel 25 to accommodate a rope or cable 26, which is fastened toward the lower end of the extensions or at any intermediate point by means of the clamping-plate 27, riveted or otherwise secured to the extension and clamping the end of the cable 26. The two ropes or cables 26 extend downward, as seen in Fig; 1, and are connected to the w1nding or hoisting drums of the engine, w1th the result that the extensions may be elevated to the desired height.

The extensions may be of any desired length, either of the same length as the permanent leaders or longer or shorter than the latter. The leaders and extensions are arranged to telescope, and the same may also be folded in the well-known manner, with the result that the entire machine may be folded in small compass for transportation purposes, requiring only one car instead of two if transported on the railway.

When the driver is of the steam-hammer type, the so-called hammer, but technically the frame thereof, is provided with opposite vertical projections or lugs, as described, which slide in the inner adjacent channels of the 1-beam extensions. hen these extensions are lowered to be within the lines or compass of the leaders as well as when the extensions are raised, these channels form the guide for the hammer, and as matter of fact these I- beams may be used as a part of the leaders and their function as extensions be dispensed with, whereby a most efficient and reliable machine would result. However, in case such beams should thus be employed as the leaders in effect they may be simple channel-beams secured in suitable manner to the ordinaryleaders, or such leaders may be dispensed with. In Fig. 10 I have shown such beams 8 with sufficient flange for securing them to the leaders by bolts 8", although plain channelbeams may be used if the same are otherwise secured to the leaders when the latter are employed.

As hereinbefore stated, my invention is applicable to pile-drivers of the drop-hammer type; but in such case the hammer instead of having the vertical corner-flanges has two opposite lugs or projections, as shown in Fig. 9, in which 28 represents the hammer and 29 the lugs, These lugs travel in the channels of the I-beams in the same manner as the lugs of the hammer-frame of the steam-hammer type of driver.

Inasmuch as my invention is applicable to both the steam and drop hammer types of pile-drivers, as hereinbefore made apparent, it will be understood that when a hammer is mentioned in the claims I refer to either one of such types thereof. Also that so far as some of the claims are concerned the beams are not necessarily to be understood as extensions, for the reason, as already stated, that such beams may be always within the length or compass of the permanent leaders, which may, in fact, be dispensed with when the function of extension of the beams is not required.

I claim 1 v 1. In a pile-driving mechanism, the combination, with permanent leaders and the ham- IIO mer, of extensions cooperating with the leaders and having means for guiding the hammer; substantially as described.

2. In a pile-driving mechanism, the combination, with permanent leaders, of a hammer having vertical lugs or projections, and extensions cooperating with the leaders and having longitudinal channels in which said lugs are received and by which said hammer is guided; substantially as described.

3. In pile-driving mechanism, the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions arranged to slide or telescope on said leaders, and a hammer arranged to travel between the extensions.

1. In pile-driving mechanism, the combination with permanent leaders of extensions formed of I-beams arranged to slide or telescope on said leaders, and a hammer having vertical lugs to engage such extensions.

5. In pile-c lriving mechanism, the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions formed of two parallel I-beams arranged to slide or telescope on said leaders, and a hammer arranged to slide in the adjacent channels of said beams.

6. In pile-driving mechanism, the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions formed of two parallel I-beams arranged to telescope on said leaders and having yokes for connectingsaid beams together, and a hammer arranged to travel in the channels of said beams.

7. In pile-driving mechanism the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions formed of parallel I-beams whose outer channels receive saidleaders, and a hammer having oppositelugs 7 received by the inner channels of said beams.

8. In pile-driving mechanism, the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions formed of parallel I- beams whose outer channels receive said leaders, yokes 9 for connecting said beams, and a hammer having opposite lugs received by the inner channels of said beams.

9. In pile-driving mechanism, the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions cooperating with the leaders, a hammer arranged to travel between the leaders as well as the extensions, and means for raising and lowering the extensions.

10. In pile-driving mechanism the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions cooperating with the leaders, a hammer arranged to travel between the leaders as well as the extensions, and means for raising and lowering the extensions comprising a pulley or sheave mounted in a leader and at raising and lowering cable passing over said sheave and connected to the extensions.

11. .In pile-driving mechanism,the com bination, with permanent leaders, of extensions cooperating with the leaders, a hammer arranged to travel between the extensions, and

means for raising and lowering the extensions comprising pulleys or sheaves mounted in the leaders at or near the upper end thereof, and raising and lowering cables passing over said sheaves and connected to the lower end of the extensions or at a point near their lower end.

12. Inpile-drivingmechanism,thecombination, with permanent leaders, of extensions cooperating with the leaders, a hammer arranged to travel between the extensions, and means for raising and lowering the extensions comprising pulleys or sheaves mounted in the leaderator near the upper end thereof, clamps secured at or near the lower end of the extensions, and raising and lowering cables passing over said sheaves and connected to said clamps.

13. In pile-driving mechanism the combination,with permanent leaders, of extensions cooperating with the leaders,a hammer arranged to travel between the leaders as well as the extensions, and means for raising and lowering the extensions comprising raising and lowering cables connected to the extensions and pulleys or sheaves over which such cables pass, the leaders having slots in which such sheaves are mounted.

14. In pile-driving mechanism the combination,with permanent leaders,of extensions cooperating with the leaders,a hammer arranged to travel between the leaders as well as the extensions, and means for raising and lowering the extensions comprising raising and lowering cables connected to the extensions and pulleys or sheaves over which such cables pass, the leaders having slots in which such sheaves are mounted and also having vertical channels or grooves to receive the cables.

15. In pile-driving mechanism,the combination, with permanent leaders, of extensions formed of I-beams arranged to slide or telescope on said leaders, a hammer arranged to travel in said leaders and extensions, and means for raising and lowering the extensions comprising raising and lowering cables, and pulleys or sheaves mounted on the leaders at or near their upper ends and over which such cables pass, said cables being connected toward the lower end of the extensions.

16. In pile-driving meehanism,the combination of permanent leaders, extensions therefor, a hammer, and a block secured to the extensions.

17. In pile-driving mechanism,the combina tion of permanent leaders, extensions therefor, a hammer and a head-block attached to the top of the extensions.

18. In pile-driving mechanism,the combina tion of permanent leaders, extensions therefor formed of I-beams arranged to slide on said leaders, yokes connecting said beams, plates 21 connecting said beams at their upper ends, and a head-block secured to the extensions.

19. In pile-driving mechanism, the combination of permanent leaders, extensions therefor formed of I-beams arranged to slide on I 20. In pile-driving mechanism the comblnat1on of permanent leaders, extenslons therefor formed of I-beams arranged to slide on said leaders, yokes connecting said beams, plates 21 connecting said beams at their up per ends, a pulley 20 secured to one of said plates 21, a head-block supported by the extensions and having sheaves, and a cable for raising and lowering the hammer and arranged to pass over said sheaves and pulley.

21. In a pile-driver, the combination, with the main frame and the hammer, of a pair of vertical beams connected together and supported by such frame, the adjacent channels of said beams forming guides for the hammer.

22. In a pile-driver, the combination, with the main frame and the hammer, of the usual permanent leaders on said frame, and a pair of vertical beams arranged adjacent the inner sides of the leaders and forming guides for the hammer.

23. In a pile-driver, the combination, with the main frame, of a hammer having opposite vertical lugs, the usual permanent leaders on said frame, and a pair of vertical channel-beams arranged adjacent the inner sides of the leaders and forming guides to receive said lugs of the hammer.

24. In a pile-driving mechanism, the combination of a supporting-frame, permanent leaders supported thereby and arranged to fold thereupon to substantially horizontal po.- sition, extensions cooperating with the leaders, and a hammer arranged to cooperate with the leaders and the extensions; substantially as described.

25. In a pile-driving mechanism, .the combination of a supporting-frame, permanent leaders supported thereby and arranged to fold thereupon to substantially horizontal position, extensions cooperating with the lead.- ers, and adapted to telescope on the extensions, and a hammer arranged to cooperate with the leaders and the extensions; substantially as described.

26. In a pile-driving mechanism, the combination of a supporting portable frame, means carried thereby for propelling the frame, and foldable leaders supported on the frame; substantially as described.

27. In a pile-driving mechanism, the combination of a supporting portable frame, means carried thereby for propelling the frame and foldable leaders supported on the frame, extensions arranged to telescope on the leaders, and a hammer cooperating with the leaders and the extensions; substantially as described.

28. In pile-driving mechanism, the combination with permanent leaders and the hammer, of extensions cooperating with the leaders and having means for guiding the hammer, and yokes for connecting the extensions; substantially as described.

. ALFRED A. RAYMOND.

Witnesses:

S. E. HIBBEN,

LoUIs B. ERWIN.

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