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US 5,960,662 AGranted
Apparatus for attaching a crane to a sheet metal roll forming machine
AssigneeM.I.C. Industries, Inc.
InventorFrederick Morello
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Abstract
A roll forming device has a trailer having a hitch mechanism at a front end and a plurality of wheels, a sheet metal roll forming apparatus mounted to the trailer and a crane mounted to the trailer for moving materials to the roll forming apparatus. An outrigger system is also provided that includes front stabilizer jacks. In addition, rear leveling jacks are also provided proximate the rear end of the trailer.
Claims35
A roll forming device, comprising:
- a) a trailer having a) a front end, a rear end, a left side and a right side, b) a hitch mechanism at said front end and c) a plurality of wheels;
- b) a sheet metal roll forming apparatus mounted to said trailer;
- c) a crane mounted to said trailer at said front end for moving materials to and from said roll forming apparatus, said crane having a boom that is configured to be positioned in a roll pick-up position with an end of said boom in front of said front end of said trailer, extending forward past a front end of said hitch mechanism;
- d) said boom being configured to be hydraulically extendable and retractable and hydraulically lowered and raised;
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- e) an operator control station to provide automatic operator control of said crane.
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A roll forming device, comprising:
- a) a trailer having a) a front end, a rear end, a left side and a right side, b) a hitch mechanism at said front end and c) a plurality of wheels;
- b) a sheet metal roll forming apparatus mounted to said trailer having an input proximate one of said ends of said trailer into which sheet metal is input into said roll forming apparatus;
- c) a crane mounted to said trailer adjacent said input to said roll forming apparatus for moving materials to and from said roll forming apparatus, said crane being mounted at a middle region of said one of said ends of said trailer.
A roll forming device, comprising:
- a) a trailer having a hitch mechanism at a front end and a plurality of wheels;
- b) a sheet metal roll forming apparatus mounted to said trailer, said sheet metal roll forming apparatus having a curving station to form said panels into curved panels having a curvature in a lengthwise direction of said panels;
- c) a crane mounted to said trailer for moving materials to and from said roll forming apparatus;
- d) said crane having a boom that is extendable and retractable via a hydraulically powered joint of retraction and that is lowered and raised via a hydraulically powered pivot joint, at least a portion of said boom being rotatable about a vertical axis;
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- e) an operator control station to provide operator control of said crane.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.