Mounting assembly for hydraulic conduits of a mobile apparatus
AssigneeCaterpillar Tractor Co.
InventorThomas P. Muller
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Abstract
A mobile apparatus (20) has a hydraulically operated pivoted boom (22) and a hydraulically operated pivoted arm (24) and on the free end of the arm is a hydraulically operated mechanism (26) for handling heavy loads in ways that cause torsional and bending distortion of the boom (22) and the arm (24). Coplanar steel hydraulic conduits (42a and 42b, and 45a and b to 50a and b) are slidably carried in conduit support blocks (57); and those blocks in turn are mounted on brackets (53) fixed to the arm (24) or brackets (69) fixed to the boom (22) by carrying means (56 or 72) which allows directionally unrestricted limited movement of the blocks (57) in a plane parallel to that of the conduit centers, and which also allows axial movement along lines perpendicular to that plane.
Claims7
In a mobile apparatus (20) having a hydraulically operated, pivotally mounted beam means (24 or 22) a free end of which supports a hydraulically operated mechanism (26) for handling heavy loads, means (52 or 51) mounting a plurality of rigid hydraulic conduits (42b or a and 45b or a to 50b or a) on said beam means (24 or 22) comprising, in combination:
- bracket means (53 or 69) fixedly mounted on said beam means;
- a hydraulic conduit support block (57) having a plurality of spaced coplanar holes (64) each of which receives and supports one of said plurality of conduits for endwise sliding movement;
- and carrying means (56 or 72) mounting said support block on said bracket means, there being clearances between parts of said bracket means and parts of said carrying means to permit directionally unrestricted limited relative movement between the bracket means and the support block in a plane parallel to the plane of said coplanar holes, and relative axial movement therebetween perpendicular to said plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.