Erectable crawler crane safety barrier
OwnerDaniel Carl Mastrosimoneinventor
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Abstract
A crane barrier access warning system suspended by four or more pinned adjustable telescoping supports, which extend outward from a cranes lower car body between the tracks. One of the telescoping members end inserts into a mounting frame, which comprises of other pinned adjustable telescoping components, so that it can be fitted to the frame or track beams. This entire safety barrier system is erected without tools. The components that form the actual safety barrier surrounds the whole crane and are suspended from it so that the safely barrier moves with the crane. Suspension components are adjustable through their pinned telescoping members so that the invention can fit different sized cranes. All the parts can be separated and fully retracted for shipping or storage.
Claims4
An erectable swing radius safety barrier for crawler cranes, in which one component of it is configured to mount to the front, and another just like it mounts to the back central areas of the crawler cranes car body frame, center counter weight, or track beams by means of their adjustable telescoping sectional members as a mounting frame, in which the extension members comprising of a plurality of other adjustable telescoping components erect onto those said mounting frames, are configured to extend outward from those mounted frames and connect to a plurality of perpendicular and parallel components which go around the entire crawler crane in a square formation at waist height forming the barrier when all the safety barrier components are erected, and also can be removed from the crane car body by a person without tools when the safety barrier is not required to be erected.
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