Vehicle crane having a detachable attachment superstructure and method for rigging the same
AssigneeTadano Demag GmbH
InventorsChristian Moritz Urban, Matthias Roth
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Abstract
A vehicle crane having a superstructure that is rotatably mounted on a lower carriage and has a telescopic main jib, where the superstructure consists of a base superstructure and an attachment superstructure arranged in a detachable manner thereon, and the attachment superstructure receives at least one main counterweight. At least one auxiliary support is provided that acts as a hinged support and is fastened to the attachment superstructure, where the rear end of which auxiliary support is suspended via a guying member, and an auxiliary counterweight is suspended from the rear end of the at least one auxiliary support. The invention also relates to a method for rigging such a vehicle crane.
Claims21
A vehicle crane comprising:
- a superstructure that is rotatably mounted on a lower carriage and has a telescopic main jib, wherein the superstructure consists of a base superstructure and an attachment superstructure arranged in a detachable manner thereon and the attachment superstructure receives at least one main counterweight;
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- wherein at least one auxiliary support configured as a hinged support is fastened to the attachment superstructure, and wherein a rear end of the auxiliary support is suspended via a guying member, and an auxiliary counterweight is suspended from the rear end of the at least one auxiliary support;
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- wherein the auxiliary support is fastened to the attachment superstructure such that the auxiliary support can be placed on the ground or the lower carriage.
A method for rigging a vehicle crane, wherein the vehicle crane comprises a superstructure that is rotatably mounted on a lower carriage and has a telescopic main jib, wherein the superstructure consists of a base superstructure and an attachment superstructure arranged in a detachable manner thereon and the attachment superstructure receives at least one main counterweight, said method comprising:
- placing at least one auxiliary support in a rigging position on the lower carriage;
- fastening the at least one auxiliary support to the attachment superstructure;
- guying a rear end of the at least one auxiliary support via a guying member on a main jib head and/or on an adjoining adapter, or an auxiliary jib;
- and
- suspending the auxiliary counterweight from the rear end of the at least one auxiliary support;
- wherein the at least one auxiliary support is configured as a hinged support with the rear end of the at least one auxiliary support being suspended via the guying member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.