Thrust device using hydraulic jacks
AssigneeCharbonnages de France
InventorsGuy Blanpain, Pierre Grandfils
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Abstract
The invention relates to a thrust device using a plurality of hydraulic jacks, and to the automatic control of a plurality of thrust jacks. Two differential jacks have resetting chambers which are permanently under hydraulic pressure. Associated with each jack there is a self-locking piloted valve placed in the active position by a push-rod at the end of a work stroke of the piston of the jack and restored into the inactive position by a piloted valve actuated by a push-rod 39 at the end of the return stroke of the piston to its starting position. In the active position the self-locking piloted valve controls the isolation from the supply of all the work chambers and the venting of the associated work chamber 14.
Claims5
A quasi-continuous thrust device, comprising:
- a plurality of double-acting jacks, each including:
- a cylinder slidably containing a piston having a working face defining with said cylinder a work chamber, and a resetting face defining with said cylinder a resetting chamber;
- each piston being reciprocally slidable in the respective cylinder between a starting position in which the work chamber is minimized and an end-of-work stroke position in which the resetting chamber is minimized;
- a hydraulic pump;
- a plurality of pressurized hydraulic fluid supply pipes normally simultaneously supplied in parallel by said hydraulic pump, each being connected to a respective said working chamber of a respective said jack, so that each is normally supplied in parallel by said hydraulic pump;
- controlled closure means for closing the respective supply pipes;
- controlled venting means for venting the respective work chambers;
- a respective bi-stable self-lock pilot device associated with each said jack, each including means for tripping the respective bi-stable self-lock pilot device to an active pilot position upon arrival of said piston of the respective jack at said end-of-work stroke position thereof;
- a respective unlocking device associated with each said jack, operable upon return of said piston of the respective jack at said starting position thereof to unlock the respective bi-stable self-lock pilot device;
- control means responsive to a respective bi-stable self-lock pilot device being in said active pilot position thereof, to control both said controlled venting means of the respective jack and the closure of said controlled closure means for the respective supply pipe;
- respective pressurized hydraulic fluid supply means for each said resetting chamber, being operable at least when the respective bi-stable self-lock pilot device is in said active position thereof;
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- additional closure means for isolating said work chambers by at least one circuit selector in response to any one of said self-lock pilot devices being placed in said active position thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.