US 6,523,320 B2Granted

Hoisting device for big loads

AssigneeMammoet Europe B.V.

InventorPieter Maria Stoof

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Abstract

A hoisting device for big loads, comprising at least one hoisting mast, a foot arranged on the underside and hoisting means connected at least to the top. The hoisting device is assembled from mast parts which are mutually connectable by means of connecting means and the largest of which has dimensions which do not exceed those of a usual container. Each mast part is constructed as a framework structure consisting of angle bars and cross bars mutually connecting the angle bars. The angle bars consist of two parts with a set-square-shaped cross section of different dimensions and wherein the outer ends of the legs of the smaller lie against the legs of the larger and the larger part lies on the outer periphery of the mast part, so that mast parts are provided of the greatest possible strength and stiffness within the dimensions of typical containers.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A hoisting device having one or more mast parts, each mast part comprising:

a plurality of elongated angle bars, each angle bar having a first part including a pair of legs extending at right angles to each other from a corner of the first part and a second part including a pair of legs extending at right angles to each other from a corner of the second part, the first part and the second part being secured together so that an end of one leg of the first part opposite the corner thereof abuts a side of one leg of the second part between the corner of the second part and an end of the one leg of the second part opposite the corner thereof, and an end of the other leg of the first part opposite the corner thereof abuts a side of the other leg of the second part between the corner of the second part and an end of the other leg of the second part opposite the corner thereof, the legs and corners of the first part and the second part of each angle bar defining a conduit that extends between opposite ends thereof;
a plurality of elongated cross bars securing the angle bars in spaced parallel relation, each cross bar having opposite ends, with one end of each cross bar connected to one angle bar and with the other end of each cross bar connected to another angle bar;
at least one connector having a pair of opposed plate pieces secured by a filler body in spaced parallel relation defining at least one gap therebetween, each plate piece having therein at least one hole which is aligned coaxially with the hole in the other plate piece across the gap, wherein at least one conduit of the mast part adjacent one end thereof slidably receives the one connector with the holes of the plate pieces thereof positioned coaxial with a hole formed in the angle bar defining the one conduit;
and
an auxiliary frame having at least one coupler including an ear configured to be received in the one conduit of the mast part adjacent the one end thereof and in the gap between the plate pieces of the one connector received in the one conduit, the ear having therein a hole which is aligned coaxially with the holes in the plate pieces of the one connector and the hole formed in the angle bar defining the one conduit for receiving a pin.

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A hoisting device having one or more mast parts, each mast part comprising:

a plurality of elongated angle bars, each angle bar having a first part including a pair of legs extending at right angles to each other from a corner of the first part and a second part including a pair of legs extending at right angles to each other from a corner of the second part, the first part and the second part being secured together so that an end of one leg of the first part opposite the corner thereof abuts a side of one leg of the second part between the corner of the second part and an end of the one leg of the second part opposite the corner thereof, and an end of the other leg of the first part opposite the corner thereof abuts a side of the other leg of the second part between the corner of the second part and an end of the other leg of the second part opposite the corner thereof, the legs and corners of the first part and the second part of each angle bar defining a conduit that extends between opposite ends thereof;
a plurality of elongated cross bars securing the angle bars in spaced parallel relation, each cross bar having opposite ends, with one end of each cross bar connected to one angle bar and with the other end of each cross bar connected to another angle bar;
and
a plurality of connectors, each connector having a pair of opposed plate pieces secured in spaced parallel relation by a filler body, each plate piece having at least two holes therein, wherein each connector is configured to be slidably received in a pair of aligned conduits of two mast parts abutted together with at least one hole of each plate piece positioned coaxial with a hole formed in the angle bar defining the conduit of one mast part for receiving a pin and at least one other hole of each plate piece positioned coaxial with a hole formed in an angle bar defining the conduit of the other mast part for receiving another pin.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/424,893Filed 3 Feb 2000
Priority: NL 100618730 May 1997
Published: US 2002/0053550 A19 May 2002
Granted: 25 Feb 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

B66C 23/28
For use on building sites; constructed, e.g. with separable parts, to facilitate rapid assembly or dismantling, for operation at successively…:…
B66C 23/283
Constructed to operate at successively higher levels: with frameworks composed of assembled elements
B66C 23/70
Jibs: constructed of sections adapted to be assembled to form jibs or various lengths
B66C
Cranes