Abstract: A crane hook assembly having a hook weight arrangement serves for applying a tension load to a rope (2). The rope can be wound onto or off a rope drum on a crane and lifts or lowers the crane hook (4). The hook weight arrangement (1*) includes a hook weight body (3) connected to the rope (2) and an additional weight (26) which is attachable thereto. The rope (2) is guided through an opening (10, 6) in the hook weight body (3, 3*), and the crane hook (4) is attached on the bottom end (20) of the hook weight body (3, 3*).

Abstract: A control device for operating a machine has a control unit with at least one actuating unit to which actuators and sensors are connected for operating the machine. The control unit has a bus line for transmitting control commands from an operating part to the actuating device. A plug connection between the operating part and the control unit is provided. A monitoring unit monitors an operating signal of the operating part. The monitoring unit triggers a safety function when the operating signal that is a heartbeat of the operating part is absent. Operating states of the operating part are monitored by the monitoring unit. An output signal of the monitoring unit is evaluated in that, when the operating part is switched on, the heartbeat is processed and, when the operating part is switched off, the absence of the heartbeat is ignored.

Abstract: A rope winch has at least one bearing support and a rope drum supported on the at least one bearing support so as to be rotatable about a drive axis. A drive motor and a gear connected to the drive motor are provided, wherein the drive motor drives the rope drum about the drive axis through the gear. At least one sensor that senses a load acting on the rope drum is provided. An exchangeably secured component that is exchangeable without dismounting the at least one bearing support is provided. The at least one sensor is arranged on the exchangeably secured component.

Abstract: A control device for operating a machine has a control unit with at least one actuating unit to which actuators and sensors are connected for operating the machine. The control unit has a bus line for transmitting control commands from an operating part to the actuating device. A plug connection between the operating part and the control unit is provided. A monitoring unit monitors an operating signal of the operating part. The monitoring unit triggers a safety function when the operating signal that is a heartbeat of the operating part is absent. Operating states of the operating part are monitored by the monitoring unit. An output signal of the monitoring unit is evaluated in that, when the operating part is switched on, the heartbeat is processed and, when the operating part is switched off, the absence of the heartbeat is ignored.

Abstract: In a method for configuring at least one mobile operating unit of at least one control, wherein the at least one operating unit is detachably connectable to the at least one control, wherein the at least one operating unit has a display, a memory, and an input device, the configuration information, required for configuring the at least one operating unit, is transmitted from the at least one control to the at least one operating unit at the time of connecting the at least one operating unit to the at least one control. The configuration information is then utilized in the at least one operating unit. The configuration information saved in the memory can be overwritten by new configuration information received from the control.

Abstract: A rope winch has at least one bearing support and a rope drum supported on the at least one bearing support so as to be rotatable about a drive axis. A drive motor and a gear connected to the drive motor are provided, wherein the drive motor drives the rope drum about the drive axis through the gear. At least one sensor that senses a load acting on the rope drum is provided. An exchangeably secured component that is exchangeable without dismounting the at least one bearing support is provided. The at least one sensor is arranged on the exchangeably secured component.

Abstract: A rope guide for a rope of a winch of a motor vehicle has a fairlead for guiding the rope and a fastening part for securing the rope guide to the motor vehicle. The fairlead and the fastening part are combined to a mountable module. The mountable module is configured to be exchangeably secured on a mount attached to the motor vehicle. The mount is a towing device having least one towing hook. The fastening part is configured to cover the mount.

Abstract: A cable drum, having a substantially cylindrical drum body with drum walls arranged at its axial ends and a groove arrangement arranged on the drum body, enables winding of a cable in a rotational direction clockwise as well as counter-clockwise thereto. The groove arrangement has parallel areas in which the grooves are parallel to the circumferential direction and incline areas in which the grooves are slanted at an angle relative to the circumferential direction of the drum body. All grooves in the parallel areas have identical groove width. The grooves in the incline areas cross one another.

Abstract: A cable drum, having a substantially cylindrical drum body with drum walls arranged at its axial ends and a groove arrangement arranged on the drum body, enables winding of a cable in a rotational direction clockwise as well as counter-clockwise thereto. The groove arrangement has parallel areas in which the grooves are parallel to the circumferential direction and incline areas in which the grooves are slanted at an angle relative to the circumferential direction of the drum body. All grooves in the parallel areas have identical groove width. The grooves in the incline areas cross one another.

Abstract: A cable guide arrangement for a cable winch has a housing to be mounted relative to a cable winch such that a first end of housing faces the cable winch and a second end of the housing faces away from the cable winch. A cable guide channel penetrates the housing and has a closed circumferential wall. The cable guide channel has a longitudinal center axis extending perpendicularly to the first and second ends of the housing. The cable guide channel has open end portions at the first and second ends of the housing, respectively. The open end portion of the guide channel at the second end of the housing widens in a direction away from the cable winch to form an inlet funnel having an edge portion defining a funnel opening. The inlet funnel reduces wear on the cable especially when being pulled at a slant to the center axis through the cable guide arrangement.

Abstract: An apparatus for recovering and towing a vehicle. The apparatus is provided on a truck that has a winch with a draw cable. The apparatus includes a crane having a frame, which is connected to the truck, a boom, which is pivotably connected to the frame, and a lifting bracket, which can be connected to a vehicle that is to be towed. The draw cable is detachably connected to the boom by a coupling. To lower and raise the lifting bracket via the draw cable, the pivotable connection of the boom to the frame is effected by a substantially horizontally extending shaft connected to the frame.

Abstract: A winch is disclosed which includes at least one rope drum about which a rope is slung as well as a transmission which is disposed between the rope drum and a drive motor. The transmission includes a drive shaft, an output shaft and a gear shifting device for different rope speeds. A stop brake is provided for the output shaft of the transmission. The gear shifting device is mounted between the drive shaft and the stop brake and is configured with respect to the output shaft so that it can be shifted from the second gear down to the first gear via a coupling disc which is actuated by a switching piston.

Abstract: A winch is disclosed and is equipped with two drive shafts and two rope drums corresponding thereto. The rope drums have peripheral grooves in which the rope which is slung over the drums is guided. A slip clutch is provided to compensate for velocity differences in the region where the rope is slung over the rope drums. The slip clutch is associated with at least one of the two drive shafts of the rope drums.

Abstract: A winch is disclosed having at least one rope drum which includes a run-out groove on its periphery in which a rope is guided. The run-out groove is bounded in part by a tightening disc which is pressable against one side of the rope. The run-out groove for the rope is configured on a drive disc which is configured so as to be separate from the rope drum. The drive disc is coupled with the rope drum via a free runner and in such a manner that an operative connection existing when the rope is run out under load is interrupted when the load is removed from the rope.

Abstract: In a portable cable winch the smooth shell of a motor-driven cable drum is provided with at least one conical surface having an angle of inclination corresponding to the angle of friction between the load-bearing cable and the cable drum. A clamping disk driven in synchronism with the cable drum pulls the load-bearing cable away from the smaller-diameter end of the conical surface and towards a cable storing means. The cable has applied thereto a clamping force which is transmitted as a pulling force back to the cable section to be drawn in via the conical surface. In an embodiment in which the shell of the cable drum is subdivided into two conical surfaces having identical angles of inclination but being disposed on the axis of the cable drum extending in opposite directions, it is possible also to employ the cable winch for raising and lowering loads upon the direction of rotation of the cable drum being reversed to alternatingly guide the cable onto the one or the other of the two conical surfaces.

Abstract: A continuous cable winch having at least one cable drum arranged within the winch frame, and a cable storage drum located externally of the frame for receiving a non-loaded cable section which is disposed with play in a guide which surrounds the cable and is located in the region between the winch frame and the cable storage drum. The ends of the guide are respectively secured on the winch frame and on the cable storage drum. The guide is flexible, and has radially open portions over its periphery. The guide may be a helical spring, the coils or windings of which are spaced from one another.

Abstract: A continuous winch with two wheels of which at least one is driven and in case of a multi-groove design is provided with a run-off groove for the non-loaded cable section, while the unloaded run-off cable section in the run-off groove is adapted to be clamped or guyed transverse to the running off direction. The run-off groove is on one side confined by a clamping wheel which is spring loaded in clamping direction substantially merely on that semi-arc which is looped around by the running-off cable.