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US 8,308,000 B2Granted
Vehicle mounted crane
AssigneeManitowoc Crane Group Germany GmbH
InventorThomas Wiesbauer
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Abstract
The invention relates to a vehicle crane, especially a mobile crane, automobile crane, or track-laying crane, comprising a superstructure which is embodied as a top slewing crane and encompasses a vertical tower and a boom located on the tower.
Claims6
A vehicle mounted crane comprising
- a non-rotating vertical tower, said tower comprising several relatively telescopic segments;
- a slewing jib mounted on the tower,
- an anchoring system for the telescopic tower, said anchoring system comprising a plurality of anchoring elements for each of at least two of said relatively telescopic tower segments distributed around the tower and about said respective telescopic segments;
- and
- a tower stabilizer system comprising individual adjustors for the respective anchoring elements which are configured to pull at the respective anchoring elements and which can be selectively activated independently of one another by means of a control unit to compensate for loads induced by said slewing jib mounted on the tower.
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