EP0005360A1 - Perfectionnements aux appareils mécaniques de manutention - Google Patents

Perfectionnements aux appareils mécaniques de manutention Download PDF

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EP0005360A1
EP0005360A1 EP79300741A EP79300741A EP0005360A1 EP 0005360 A1 EP0005360 A1 EP 0005360A1 EP 79300741 A EP79300741 A EP 79300741A EP 79300741 A EP79300741 A EP 79300741A EP 0005360 A1 EP0005360 A1 EP 0005360A1
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Arthur Charles Morris Sigsworth
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B C PLANT MFT Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66F—HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD
    • B66F9/00—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes
    • B66F9/06—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks
    • B66F9/075—Constructional features or details
    • B66F9/12—Platforms; Forks; Other load supporting or gripping members
    • B66F9/122—Platforms; Forks; Other load supporting or gripping members longitudinally movable
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66F—HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD
    • B66F9/00—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes
    • B66F9/06—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks
    • B66F9/075—Constructional features or details
    • B66F9/07568—Steering arrangements

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  • the invention relates to mechanical handling equipment, and is particularly concerned with mobile auxiliary lifting and lowering devices intended for use with a power-driven lift truck.
  • auxiliary lifting and lowering devices intended for use with power-driven parent lift trucks and comprising: a wheeled frame supporting generally horizontally extending tines; means allowing the device to be selectively coupled to and uncoupled from a lifting carriage of the parent truck; first power-driven means, adapted to be controlled from the parent truck, to selectively raise and lower the tines of the device relative to its wheels; and second power-driven means, also adapted to be controlled from the parent truck, to drive the uncoupled device on its wheels selectively away from and back towards the truck.
  • the parent truck picks up the device and carries it as far as the open end of a container which is to be either loaded or unloaded.
  • the device is then raised by the truck until it clears the floor of the container, the truck drives forward and deposits the device on the container floor, and the device is then coupled from the truck, driven forward into the container, manouevred so as to pick up, rearrange or deposit goods within the container, and is finally brought back to the parent truck, picked up by it and carried away to a further site.
  • the device is controlled from the parent truck.
  • the Miller device can have its overall width varied, or the length and spacing of its tines altered, without special components having to be built in each case because of the need to incorporate the various linkages used. It is very often desirable to vary the overall width of the main frame (to increase the load supporting capacity) or to adjust the length and spacing of the lifting tines (to cater for special pallets or restricted manouevring conditions). The inability to do this, combined with the restricted lift available from the device, makes the known devices singularly unadaptable to different working conditions.
  • the invention takes as its starting point the state of the art defined by the known devices discussed above. Having analysed the drawbacks of those known devices in the manner outlined above, the invention attempts to provide a steerable mobile auxiliary lifting and lowering device which will reduce those drawbacks significantly whilst still incorporating all the advantages given by devices of this general type.
  • a mobile steerable auxiliary lifting and lowering device intended for use with a power-driven lift truck and having the known general features outlined at the beginning of this specification, is characterised by a novel and inventive combination of three essential features: firstly, one end of the frame of the device is supported on a pair of wheels which are drivable independently of one another and in either direction of rotation; secondly, the said driven wheels are widely transversely spaced apart from one another across said one end of the device; and thirdly the power-driven lifting tines of the device can be raised or lowered, in relation to the frame, without raising or lowering the frame in relation to the wheels.
  • the main frame of the device can be a simple rectangular frame, whereas with a single central wheel the horizontal portion of the main frame would have to be cranked inwardly in order to clear the necessary stabilising wheds.
  • the hydraulic fluid supply lines to the power-driving motors do not have to bend and twist.
  • the payload capacity of the device is increased, the strain on the frame is reduced, the power-driven raising and lowering means is placed under less strain for a given payload, and the amount of lift is unrestricted.
  • the power-driven means to drive the device on its wheels comprises two independently power-driven motaPin-wheel units, one in each of the two spaced apart driven wheels.
  • each power driven motor-in-wheel unit can be attached to a main frame of any desired dimension. Since there are no linkages to lower the auxiliary wheels, and no steering linkages on the driven wheels, the entire dimensions of the frame and the tine spacings can be varied within any suitable limits because the wheels can simply be added as independent units: they have the minimum of effect on the parameters within which the frame can be designed.
  • the spacing of the wheels, tines and frames can be varied independently without affecting one another.
  • the frame or the tines, or both, could be outboard of the wheels.
  • U-section or I-section uprights are incorporated into the main frame of the device. Because the frame is not lifted when the tines are lifted, the main frame can be made extremely rigid.
  • the flanges of the U-section or I-section uprights form ideal bearing surfaces for the necessary rotary bearings on which the tines and carriage plate of the device must run. They also lend themselves directly to incorporating renewable hard wear strips for the carriage plate bearings.
  • the frame of the device incorporates means for securing each auxiliary wheel to the frame at selectively different distances from the projecting ends of the tines. Because these auxiliary wheels incorporate no linkages to automatically raise or lower them as the tines are lowered and raised, such adjustment is readily achieved and this is another significant advantage given by the invention which would be impossible with the known constructions.
  • the invention includes a fitment which can selectively be used to limit the effective height by which the tines can be raised, but which can also be rendered inoperative.
  • a fitment which can selectively be used to limit the effective height by which the tines can be raised, but which can also be rendered inoperative.
  • the power-driven means on the device are fluid pressure operated, and the necessary fluid supply line enters the device via a rotary union, such an arrangement lends itself ideally to a slip-ring electrical contact for the necessary electrical connections between the solenoid valves on the device and the electrical supply line to the parent truck.
  • two independently driven motor-in-wheel units provide the steering effect without themselves swivelling about a steering axis.
  • the fluid supply line from each motor to its actuating solenoid valve can be rigid, and will thus not be subjected to any twisting or bending stresses because there is no relative movement between the motor and its valve.
  • each motor-in-wheel unit can swivel about a vertical steering axis, it is still only necessary to provide the minimum length of flexible pipe from the motor to the nearest adjacent part of the frame; the motors can be swivelled independently to give the smallest possible turning circle for the device; and, if they are swivelled in the same direction as one another, the device can proceed "crab-wise". None of these manouevres is possible with the known devices referred to above.
  • the invention includes within its scope a combination of a power-driven parent lift truck with a device having any or all of the features outlined above, the truck being fitted with means to control the power-driven means which raise and lower the tines of the device and which power the device's wheels.
  • the device illustrated is built around a wheeled frame which is in two sections.
  • the first section consists of two transversely spaced apart hollow box beams 11 which extend generally horizontally.
  • the forward ends of these horizontally extending beams support freely-rotatable auxiliary rollers 12, on which the device runs when in use.
  • the rearward ends of the horizontal beams 11 support the second section of the main frame of the device, this second section consisting of two transversely spaced apart I-section beams 13 which extend vertically with their major flanges 14 facing outwardly.
  • This second section 13 of the frame in addition to housing the main drive and control components of the device, also provides the track on which the lifting carriage of the device moves vertically up and down when in use.
  • each wheel consists of a solid (or pneumatic) rubber-tyred rim, housing a motor-in-wheel hydraulic-actuated drive unit 15A.
  • the motors incorporate load-absorbing roller bearings, and the motor shafts are secured to the main frame 11, 13 of the device so that the motor casings rotate with the wheels 15.
  • each motor-in-wheel unit 15A can be driven selectively in either direction of rotation, and operates independently of the motor in the other motor-in-wheel unit.
  • Respective solenoid valves 16, 17 carried on the device are linked by fluid-carrying conduit (not shown) to each respective motor-in-wheel unit, and are fed from similar conduit which enters the device via a rotary union 18 (or other means) pivotally mounted at the top of the main frame 13.
  • the lifting tines 19 of the device are mounted on a carriage assembly 21, and there is provision to adjust the lateral spacing between the tines 19 and also to adjust the position of each tine individually on the carriage plate 22. This adjustment is achieved by castellating the top of the carriage plate 22 and by providing each tine with a hook 23 which can be engaged selectively in any of the notches provided by the castellations.
  • the carriage runs on relatively large-diameter roller bearings 24, each side of the carriage being supported in two such bearings. These bearings travel along the insides of the major flanges 14 of the I-section beams 13 which rise vertically as parts of the main frame of the device.
  • the flange faces incorporate renewable hardened steel wear strips 25, secured to the flanges 14 by countersunk screws 26, and the bearings 24 travel on these wear strips as the carriage moves up and down.
  • Side thrust rollers 26 are provided, and (although only one is shown) there are two such side thrust rollers on one side of the carriage acting in combination with a single third roller on the other side.
  • Each of these three side thrust rollers 26 is removably mounted in a respective boss 27 welded to an associated one of the carriage side plates 28, and the side plates are provided with cut-outs to accommodate the mounting nut 29 of each side thrust roller.
  • the main bearings 24 of the carriage are secured to the inside of their respective associated carriage side plates 28 by hexagon-headed socket screws 31.
  • a U-section beam 32 is welded across the upper ends of the I-section frame beams 13 to brace the entire structure.
  • the rotary union 18 previously referred to is mounted on this beam 32.
  • Two transversely-spaced-apart projections 33 are welded to the outer face of the U-section bracing beam 32, and each projection has a downwardly depending head or hook 34 formed and welded to it. These projecting hooks allow the tines 19 to be selectively coupled and uncoupled respectively to and from the lifting carriage of a power driven lift truck, the tines of the truck first having been removed from the carriage, by engaging corresponding recesses in the truck's carriage plate.
  • a single hydraulic ram 35 is mounted approximately on the vertical centre-line of the device.
  • the head end of the ram is secured via a limited-swivel joint 36 to a U-section bracket 37 welded to the main frame of the device.
  • the rod end of the ram is similarly secured between two links 38 which project rigidly upward from the lifting carriage 21 of the device.
  • the ram is a double-acting ram, and, if desired, it can be fully extended to raise the tines 19 of the device virtually the full height of the main I-section beams 13.
  • the pressurized hydraulic supply to the ram 35 enters the device through the same rotary union 18 as that which supplies the solenoid valves 16, 17 controlling the drive motors of the device's main wheels 15.
  • a third solenoid valve 39 is mounted adjacent these two valves 16, 17, the third valve controlling the extension and retraction of the hydraulic ram itself.
  • the device incorporates a stroke-limiting device, which can selectively be used to limit the amount by which the tines 19 can be raised from the frame 11, 13.
  • Figures 2 and 3 show the device.
  • One of the rigid links 38 previously referred to as projecting upwardly from the device's carriage 21 has a stop 41 pivotally secured to it.
  • a spring-loaded ball detent (not shown) normally holds the stop 41 in the position shown in Figures 2 and 3, in which it lies alongside the rigid link 38 to which it is secured. However, the stop 41 can if desired be swung out (as shown by the arrows in Figure 3) to project at right angles to the link 38.
  • a nut 44 allows the knurled headed end of the screw 42 to be secured in any desired position within the limits imposed by the length of the screw.
  • the stop 41 hits the knurled end of the screw during its upward movement, the supply of hydraulic fluid to the ram 35 is automatically cut off or the ram is stalled.
  • the respective knurled and square-ended ends of the screw 42 allow the screw to be adjusted from either end, whichever happens to be more convenient at the time.
  • auxiliary rollers 12 which, in use, support the front end of the device on the ground, can be pivotally secured to their associated box frame beam 11 in any one of a number of different positions 12a, 12b, 12c.
  • the rollers 12 themselves project into their associated box beam 11, which is cut away to allow this. Because the auxiliary rollers 12 are secured to the frame beams 11 independently of the tines 19, they do not limit the amount by which the tines can be raised from the frame whilst still keeping the auxiliary rollers in contact with the ground.
  • FIG 4 shows the way in which the device is used.
  • a power-driven lift truck 45 has its own lifting tines removed, and its carriage is used to pick up the device via the inter-engagement of the projections 33, 34 with recesses (not shown) which are conventionally formed in the lift truck's carriage plate 46 to accept its own tines.
  • Two freely rotatable drums 47 are mounted on top of the roll-over cage of the truck, each drum supporting hydraulic hose 48 which emerges from the hollow centre of the drum's spindle and continues to an appropriate fluid power connection on the body of the truck.
  • the other end of each hose passes over a guide 49 and is connected by a quick- release self-sealing valve (not shown) to the rotary union 18 on top of the frame of the device.
  • One of the drums 47 also carries electrical cable which is taped to the hose 48 and which again is connected to the device in order to actuate the solenoid valves 16, 17, 39.
  • Power controls (not shown) for operating the device are provided as an attachment to fit on the truck, in a position convenient for the truck driver, and are driven from the hydraulic power circuit of the truck.
  • the truck 45 picks up the device and carries it as far as the open end of a container 51 which is to be either loaded or unloaded.
  • the device is then raised by the truck until it clears the floor of the container, the truck drives forward, and the device is deposited on the container floor.
  • the control gear on the truck is then operated to drive the device forward into the container, the device's own lifting carriage 21 and tines 19 are used to pick up, re-arrange or deposit goods 52 within the container, and when the operation is finished, the device is brought back to the truck and is picked up by it and carried away to a further site.
  • the device is controlled from the parent truck and the necessary fluid and electrical power supply lines automatically unreel themselves from the drums 47 on the truck. As the device comes back towards the truck, the drum, which is spring-loaded, automatically reels in the power-supplying hose and cable 48.
  • each of the motor-in-wheel units 15A could be swivelled about its own steering axis by a hydraulic torque drive 15B as shown in Figure 1A (in which an arrow indicates the swivelling movement).
  • a hydraulic torque drive 15B as shown in Figure 1A (in which an arrow indicates the swivelling movement).
  • horseshoe-shaped spaces 34A are provided to fit over the projection 33. In use, several such spaces can fill the gap between the head 34 on the end of each projection 33 and the U-beam 32 to which each projection 33 is welded. The spaces can thus be used to vary selectively the amount by which the carried device projects from the lifting carriage of its parent truck.

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US2940625A (en) * 1956-03-29 1960-06-14 Walter B Holm Material lift truck
FR1252876A (fr) * 1959-02-06 1961-02-03 Kempf & Co Ag Dispositif de chargement mobile
GB1440062A (en) * 1972-05-26 1976-06-23 Weldall Eng Ltd Loading devices for fork lift trucks
FR2320897A1 (fr) * 1975-08-14 1977-03-11 Total Mechanical Handling Ltd Perfectionnements aux appareils mecaniques de manutention

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US2940625A (en) * 1956-03-29 1960-06-14 Walter B Holm Material lift truck
FR1252876A (fr) * 1959-02-06 1961-02-03 Kempf & Co Ag Dispositif de chargement mobile
GB1440062A (en) * 1972-05-26 1976-06-23 Weldall Eng Ltd Loading devices for fork lift trucks
FR2320897A1 (fr) * 1975-08-14 1977-03-11 Total Mechanical Handling Ltd Perfectionnements aux appareils mecaniques de manutention

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