WO2014120243A1 - Boom apparatus with nose body - Google Patents
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- WO2014120243A1 WO2014120243A1 PCT/US2013/024413 US2013024413W WO2014120243A1 WO 2014120243 A1 WO2014120243 A1 WO 2014120243A1 US 2013024413 W US2013024413 W US 2013024413W WO 2014120243 A1 WO2014120243 A1 WO 2014120243A1
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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
- B66C13/00—Other constructional features or details
- B66C13/12—Arrangements of means for transmitting pneumatic, hydraulic, or electric power to movable parts of devices
- B66C13/14—Arrangements of means for transmitting pneumatic, hydraulic, or electric power to movable parts of devices to load-engaging elements or motors associated therewith
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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
- B66C23/54—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 with pneumatic or hydraulic motors, e.g. for actuating jib-cranes on tractors
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- the present disclosure relates to a boom apparatus.
- it relates to a nose of the boom apparatus.
- a boom apparatus comprises a devis pin unit, at least one flexible line, and a boom.
- the at least one flexible line extends longitudinally of the boom.
- the boom comprises a first boom side wall, a second boom side wall spaced apart from the first boom side wall laterally of the boom, a top wail, a bottom wall spaced apart from the top wall, and a monolithic nose body.
- the top wall and the bottom wall interconnect the first boom side wall and the second boom side wail.
- the first boom side wall, the second boom side wall, the top wall, and the bottom wall cooperate to define a periphery of a box structure of the boom.
- the first boom side wall and the second boom side wail extend longitudinally of the boom beyond the box structure to provide respectively a first wall extension and a second wall extension.
- the nose body is positioned at a nose of the boom and the boom apparatus.
- the nose body is attached to and sandwiched between the first and second wall extensions and attached to the top and bottom walls so as to close an end portion of the box structure.
- the nose body and the first and second wall extensions receive therein the devis pin unit such that the nose body, the first and second wall extensions, and the clevis pin unit are included in a devis of the boom apparatus for suspension of a work tool therefrom.
- the nose body comprises a passageway through which the at least one flexible line is routed.
- FIG. 1 is a right-hand side elevation view showing a boom apparatus attached to a diagrammatic base machine and a diagrammatic work tool;
- FIG, 2 is a perspective view, with portions broken away, showing routing of at least one flexible line (shown diagrammaticaily as a dashed line) through a passageway of a nose body of the nose of the boom apparatus;
- FIG. 3 is a top view, with portions broken away, showing the nose of the boom apparatus
- FIG. 4 is a bottom view, with portions broken away, showing the nose of the boom apparatus
- FIG. 5 is a sectional view, taken along lines 5-5 of FIG. 3;
- FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the nose body
- FIG. 7 is a front elevation view of the nose body
- FIG. 8 is a right-hand side elevation view of the nose body
- FIG. 9 is a top view of the nose body.
- FIG. 10 is a bottom view of the nose body.
- an exemplary work machine 10 comprises a base machine 12, a boom apparatus 13, and a work tool 14.
- the work machine 10 may be any of a variety of work machines.
- the work machine 10 may be a forestry machine.
- the base machine 12 may be, for example, a tracked feller buncher or a wheeled or tracked harvester.
- the work tool 14 may be a hydrauiically-actuated forestry attachment, such as, for example, a disk saw felling head, a harvesting head, a debarking head, a cutting head, a delimber, a tree handling device, or a combination thereof, to name but a few forestry attachments.
- the boom apparatus 13 is illustrated, for example, as a boom apparatus for a forestry harvester, it being understood that the boom apparatus 13 may be configured for a wide variety of work machines.
- the boom apparatus 13 comprises a first end portion 15 and a second end portion 16.
- the first end portion 15 is attached to the base machine 12, and the work tool 14 is attached to the second end portion 18.
- the second end portion 16 is the working end portion, or nose, of the boom apparatus 13.
- the work tooi 14 may comprise, for example, a connector 43 attached pivotally to the nose 16 and a harvesting head 44 suspended from the connector 43 as indicated diagrammaticaily.
- the connector 43 is useful with a rotator (not shown) of the harvesting head 44 that can rotate the harvesting head 44 more than 360 degrees, although the connector 43 may be configured in other ways (e.g., a dog- bone connector) with less rotatabiiity of the harvesting head 44.
- the boom apparatus 13 comprises a heavy duty boom structure 17.
- the boom structure 17 comprises a first or hoist boom 18 and a second or stick boom 20.
- the first boom 18 is attached pivotally to the base machine 12 for pivotal movement of the first boom 18, and thus the boom structure 17, relative to the base machine 12 about a first boom pivot axis 22.
- the second boom 20 is attached pivotally to the first boom 18 for pivotal movement of the second boom 20 relative to the first boom 18 about a second boom pivot axis 26.
- Each of the booms 18, 20 is configured, for example, as a weldment.
- the boom apparatus 13 comprises two hoist cylinders 24 configured as two fluid cylinders (e.g., hydraulic cylinders).
- the hoist cylinders 24 are attached pivotally to the base machine 12 and the first boom 18 to raise and lower the first boom 18, and thus the boom structure 17, relative to the base machine 12 about the first boom pivot axis 22.
- the boom apparatus 13 comprises a stick cylinder 28 configured as a fluid cylinder (e.g., hydraulic cylinder).
- the stick cylinder 28 is attached pivotally to the first boom 18 and the second boom 20 to pivot the second boom 20 relative to the first boom 18.
- the cylinder 28 is so attached to pivot the second boom 20 relative to the first boom 18 about the second boom pivot axis 26.
- the second boom 20 comprises a first boom side wail 30, a second boom side wail 32 spaced apart from the first boom side wail 30 laterally of the second boom 20, a top wail 34, and a bottom wall 36 spaced apart from the top wall 34 depth-wise of the second boom 20.
- the top wall 34 and the bottom wall 36 interconnect and are welded to the first boom side wall 30 and the second boom side wail 32.
- the structure 39 is hollow given that it has a box shape.
- the first boom side wall 30 and the second boom side wall 32 extend longitudinally of the second boom 20 beyond the box structure 39 to provide respectively a first wall extension 40 and a second wail extension 41 .
- the second boom 20 comprises a monolithic (one-piece) nose body 42.
- the nose body 42 is positioned at the nose 18 of the second boom 20 and the boom apparatus 13.
- the nose body 42 bridges a width 51 between (inclusively) the first and second wall extensions 40, 41 laterally of the second boom 20.
- the nose body 42 is attached to and sandwiched between the first and second wall extensions 40, 41 and attached to the top and bottom walls 34, 38 so as to close an end portion 52 of the box structure 39.
- Such a configuration may promote stress minimization and part count economy in a clevis 57 of the boom apparatus 13.
- the nose body 42 and the first and second wail extensions 40, 41 receive therein a clevis pin unit 21 such that the nose body 42, the first and second wail extensions 40, 41 , and the clevis pin unit 21 are included in the clevis 57 of the boom apparatus 13 for suspension of the work tool 14 therefrom.
- the nose body 42 comprises a passageway 58 through which at least one flexible line 59 of the boom apparatus 13 is routed.
- the at least one flexible line 59 extends longitudinally of the second boom 20 along an underside thereof.
- there are several such flexible lines 59 e.g., hydraulic and electrical lines), represented diagrammatica!iy as a dashed line. Since the lines 59 are routed through the passageway 58, they do not hang down as they pass through the nose 18 to the work tool 14. The passageway 58 thus promotes protection of the lines 59 against vulnerability to damage and an aesthetically pleasing, clean appearance in the nose area of the second boom 20. Routing of the lines 59 through the passageway 58 further promotes simplification of the routing of the lines 59 through the nose 16.
- the nose body 42 comprises a first body side wail
- the spinal and barrier walls 48, 49 interconnect the first and second body side wails 48, 47.
- the first and second body side walls 46, 47 are attached (e.g., welded) respectively to the first and second wall extensions 40, 41 .
- the spina! wail 48 is attached to the top wail 34 and the bottom wall 38 as part of closing the end portion 52 of the box structure 39 by the nose body 42.
- the passageway 58 is defined between the spinal and barrier walls 48, 49 and between the first and second body side wails 46, 47.
- the clevis pin unit 21 is received in a first collar 60 of the first body side wail 46 and a second collar 61 of the second body side wall 47.
- the clevis pin unit 21 comprises a first clevis pin 23 received in the first collar 60 and a second clevis pin 23 received in the second collar 61 .
- the nose body 42 is arched in its lateral profile (see also FIG. 6).
- the spinal wall 48 is longer than and arches about the barrier wail 49 such that the passageway 58 is arched so as to direct smoothly the routing of the at least one flexible line 59 through the nose 16.
- the at least one flexible line 59 enters the passageway 58 via a rearward opening 64 defined between the spinal and barrier walls 48, 49 and exits the passageway 58 via a forward opening 66 defined between the spinal and barrier walls 48, 49.
- the at least one flexible line 59 is routed sequentially through the rearward opening 64, the passageway 58, and the forward opening 66, avoiding sharp edges on passage through the nose 16.
- the at least one flexible line 59 is then routed through a central passageway of the connector 43 to the harvesting head 44.
- the nose body 42 is attached to the box structure 39 as part of closing the end portion 52 of the box structure 39 by the nose body 42.
- Each of the spinal wall 48, the first body side wall 46, and the second body side wall 47 is attached (e.g., welded) to the top wail 34 and the bottom wall 36.
- the spinal wail 48 is attached to the bottom wail 36.
- the spina! wall 48 comprises a rearward end edge 68.
- the end edge 68 comprises a groove 70.
- the groove 70 receives a forward end edge 72 of the bottom wall 36 such that the forward end edge 72 is attached (e.g., welded) to the groove 70.
- the spinal wall 48 is attached to the top wall 34.
- the spinal wall 48 is attached to a forward end edge 74 of the top wall 34.
- the spinal wail 48 is welded to the forward end edge 74 of the top wall 34, as indicated by a diagrammatic box 75.
- the first and second body side walls 46, 47 are attached to the top wail 34 and the bottom wall 36.
- Each of the top wall 34 and the bottom wall 36 comprises a first corner notch 76 and a second corner notch 78.
- the first body side wall 48 comprises a first rim 80 received in and attached to (e.g., welded) the first corner notch 78 of the top wall 34 and the first corner notch 76 of the bottom wail 36.
- the second body side wall 47 comprises a second rim 82 received in and attached to (e.g., welded) the second corner notch 78 of the top wail 34 and the second corner notch 78 of the bottom wall 36.
- each of the first and second body side wails 46, 47 is generally kidney bean-shaped in its lateral profile.
- Each of the first and second body side walls 46, 47 comprises a forward ear 84, a rearward ear 86, and a vertex 88 positioned between the forward and rearward ears 84, 86.
- the forward ear 84 of the first body side wail 46 comprises the first collar 80.
- the forward ear 84 of the second body side wail 47 comprises the second collar 61 .
- the spinal wall 48 extends about the barrier wall 49 forwardly from the rearward ears 88 toward the forward ears 84 to the vertices 88 along an upper edge 90 of each of the first and second body side walls 46, 47.
- the barrier wall 49 is positioned at the vertices 88 and extends along a lower edge 92 of each of the first and second body side wails 46, 47.
- the ears 84, 86 are configured, for example, as lobes, with the forward ears 84 being larger lobes than the rearward ears in order to provide the collars 80, 61 .
- the forward ear 84 of the first body side wail 48 is a first ear
- the forward ear 84 of the second body side wall 47 is a second ear.
- the ears 84 project away from the spinal and barrier wails 48, 49 longitudinally forwardly of the second boom 20.
- the nose body 42 is a monolithic structure, promoting stress minimization and sharp-edge avoidance.
- the nose body 42 is a casting made, for example, of cast steel.
- the first and second body side walls 46, 47 are cast in a shell form, promoting weight minimization, such that the wails 46, 47 are recessed from their respective rims 80, 82.
- each of the first and second boom side walls 30, 32 comprises a laterally inner plate 94 and a laterally outer plate 96 such that the two laterally inner plates 94 are positioned laterally inward from the two laterally outer plates 96 relative to the lateral dimension of the boom 20.
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- the outer plates 74 extend the length of the boom 18.
- the outer plate 98 of the first boom side wall 30 provides the first wall extension 40
- the outer plate 96 of the second boom side wall 32 provides the second wall extension 41
- the first rim 80 is welded to a laterally inner face of the first wall extension 40 of the laterally outer plate 96 of the first boom side wall 30 and to an end edge of the iateraliy inner plate 94 of the first boom side wall 30.
- the second rim 82 is welded to a laterally inner face of the second wall extension 41 of the laterally outer plate 96 of the second boom side wall 32 and to an end edge of the iateraliy inner plate 94 of the second boom side wall 32.
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