Abstract: An extendable needle davit assembly has an extendable beam comprising a fixed beam portion, and a telescopic beam portion slidably receivable within a distal end of the fixed beam portion. An intermediate lateral bracing frame holds the extendable beam at an angle. The fixed beam portion is a single-piece construction, and a proximal end of the fixed beam portion is anchored. An upper end of the bracing frame is attached to a distal attachment point of the fixed beam portion, such that a distal portion of the fixed beam portion extends beyond the bracing frame. A lower portion of the bracing frame is attached to a proximal attachment point of the fixed beam portion by means of a rear brace.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a crane, in particular a lattice boom mobile crane, which comprises an upper carriage rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation and a floating ballast connected to the upper carriage via a floating ballast guide. The floating ballast guide comprises a drive for changing the distance of the floating ballast from the axis of rotation of the upper carriage. According to the disclosure, the floating ballast guide is connected to the upper carriage via at least one force transmission member. The force transmission member is configured to partially unload the floating ballast guide by an unloading force counteracting the weight force of the floating ballast, and to thereby introduce a corresponding counterforce into the upper carriage.

Abstract: Provides is a crane in which the manipulation according to an operator's intention is more easily performed. The crane includes a manipulating member capable of performing at least one of an accelerator manipulation for increasing or decreasing a rotational speed of an engine and a turning manipulation of a turning body. A predetermined operation is stopped in a case where an operator is not touching the manipulating member and the predetermined operation (turning operation, traveling operation, or the like) of the crane is performed.

Abstract: A belt housing assembly includes a first shaft with a first bearing that is mounted in a fixed bearing retainer and a second shaft with a second bearing mounted in a rotatable eccentric bearing retainer. A center of the second bearing is offset from a center of the eccentric bearing retainer. A distance between the first shaft and the second shaft is adjustable by rotating the eccentric bearing retainer. A method of adjusting a distance between a first sprocket attached to a first shaft of a drivetrain operatively interconnecting an engine to a ground engagement member of an all-terrain vehicle via a drive belt interconnected with a second sprocket attached to a second shaft of the drivetrain is also provided.

Abstract: A lightweight and high-rigidity telescopic boom in which strain during manufacturing is suppressed is disclosed. In a telescopic boom, a plurality of booms forms a telescope structure, and the telescopic boom includes a boom fixing mechanism that fixes a top boom disposed relatively inside at a predetermined position with respect to a first intermediate boom disposed relatively outside. The boom fixing mechanism includes a boom fixing pin that is provided to the top boom and advances and retreats with respect to the first intermediate boom, a fixing boss that is provided to the first intermediate boom and into which the boom fixing pin is inserted and extracted, and a gap maintaining member that is provided to the fixing boss and protrudes outward to maintain a gap between the first intermediate boom and a second intermediate boom disposed further outside.

Abstract: This invention relates to a crane, in particular a mobile crane or crawler crane, comprising a main boom and a counter boom as well as an erecting trestle arranged on the uppercarriage of the crane, which is connected to a guying of the counter-boom via a cable adjuster, wherein there is provided at least one pressure prop articulated to the counter-boom or on the pivot axis of the counter-boom in order to temporarily receive the cable adjuster and/or the guying, wherein the receiving point of the pressure prop is designed such that the cable adjuster or guying can lift off from the pressure prop on its own at a particular erecting angle of the counter-boom.

Abstract: An offshore wind turbine installation vessel includes a crane provided with a computerized crane control system. The computerized crane control system is linked to the slew drive, the luffing drive, and the hoisting winch of the crane, and is programmed to perform a foundation pile installation routine providing a coordinated pattern of slew motion of the superstructure and of luffing motion of the boom structure, as well as operation of the hoisting winch so that the load connector of the crane moves from a foundation pile pick up position thereof, where the load connector is connected to the top end of a horizontally oriented foundation pile stored on a storage deck, to a foundation pile overboarding position thereof, wherein the foundation pile is in vertical suspended from the load connector, outside of the hull.

Abstract: An articulated boom having two limbs, wherein at least one of the limbs includes a first section, a second section and an electrically insulating connecting piece which connects the first section to the second section and which is rigidly connected to the first section and to the second section. The connecting piece includes glass fibers which are cast with a plastic matrix.

Abstract: Extendable lattice type crane boom (2) for a crane (1), the boom comprising a lattice type base boom section (2a) and at least one lattice type telescopic boom section (2b), wherein the at least one telescopic boom section is adjustable with respect to the base boom section between a retracted position, in which the telescopic boom section is substantially inside of the base boom section, and an extended position, in which the telescopic boom section is at least partly outside of the base boom section, wherein a distal end of the base boom section to which a first guiding system (21) is mounted, the guiding system being configured to guide a movement of the telescopic boom section along the base boom section; wherein a proximal end of the telescopic boom section comprises a second guiding system (30) configured to guide a movement of the telescopic boom section along the base boom section.

Abstract: An embodiment relates to a mobile crane having an articulated body and an elongate boom attached to the body, the boom being for carrying a load when the crane is stationary and while the crane is mobile. The boom is articulated to provide a movement for lifting and lowering an end of the boom, and the boom is further articulated to provide a movement of the boom laterally. A further embodiment relates to controlling swing of a load carried at the end of a boom of a mobile crane by varying lateral orientation of the boom.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an assembly head for a telescopic boom that can be separated into an inner and an outer boom set and that is reversibly mountable at an inner telescopic section of the outer boom set. The assembly head comprises a pulley head having deflection pulleys and a telescopic tube section that is arranged the pulley head, that can be pushed into the inner telescopic section from its end, and that has a substantially smaller length than the inner telescopic section. The disclosure further relates to a separable telescopic boom having an assembly head in accordance with the disclosure, to a mobile crane having a telescopic boom in accordance with the disclosure, and to a method for the self-assembly of an assembly head in accordance with the disclosure at the outer boom set of a telescopic boom.

Abstract: A fiber bundle winding device includes: a traverse guide configured to guide a fiber bundle to a bobbin; and a controller configured to control the traverse guide according to a rotation of the bobbin. The traverse guide is movable parallel to a center axis of the bobbin. The controller can perform: first movement control that moves the traverse guide to wind the fiber bundle onto the bobbin in a predetermined first area extending in a direction of the center axis of the bobbin; and second movement control that moves the traverse guide to wind the fiber bundle onto the bobbin in a second area being smaller than the first area and having ends that are located within the first area and at different positions from respective ends of the first area. The first movement control and second movement control are performed at a ratio of N:1 (N is an integer more than 1).

Abstract: A rear sprocket assembly comprises a sprocket carrier, a first sprocket, and a second sprocket. The sprocket carrier includes at least one sprocket mounting portion having a first radial section and a second radial section. The first radial section has a first maximum axial length with respect to the axial direction. The second radial section has a second maximum axial length with respect to the axial direction. The second maximum axial length is larger than the first maximum axial length. At least one second mounted portion of the second sprocket is configured to axially contact the first radial section and the second radial section of the at least one sprocket mounting portion of the sprocket carrier with respect to the axial direction.

Abstract: A telescopic boom that includes a plurality of extensible boom sections and a power source for delivering translational force to the boom sections. The boom further includes at least one rope transiting between boom sections wherein a first section is extending, and the second section is adjacent to the extending sections. The rope is redirected by at least one sheave mounted to the adjacent section and further redirected by at least one sheave mounted to the extensible section.

Abstract: A system comprising a crane and an exchangeable tool. The crane and the tool respectively comprise an upper tool connector with tool retainers and a lower tool connector which can be interconnected, e.g. a male and female connector, e.g. the lower tool connector of the tool being embodied as a shank provided with a shoulder and the upper tool connector as a tool clamp with a female, open-centered body. A tool suspension device comprises the upper tool connector. a travelling block member. The tool clamp has multiple mobile tool retainers adapted to—in a non-operative position—allow introduction of the shank of the tool from below into the shank receiving passage and—in an operative position—engage below the shoulder of the shank that has been introduced into the passage so as to suspend the tool. The upper tool connector may comprise a bearing allowing for swivelling of the open-centered body, and e.g.

Abstract: A support for a trolley, having a running surface that is formed on the support for the trolley, an upper chord, a lower chord and braces that connect said chords together, wherein the braces are designed to be flat, and each brace has a main surface that faces away from the support longitudinally between the upper chord and the lower chord. Two of the braces form a brace pair in each case and are arranged next to one another as viewed in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the support, preferably on the outside of opposite longitudinal sides of the support. To provide such a support, the flat braces are releasably secured to the upper chord and/or to the lower chord. The invention also relates to an overhead transport device having such a support and a trolley that can be moved along the support on the running surface.

Abstract: An assembly for minimizing the disengagement of a chain from a chain ring is disclosed. The assembly includes an inboard leg and an outboard leg. Rotation of the outboard leg relative to the inboard leg locks the inboard leg in place relative to the outboard leg. Relative rotation locks the assembly onto a shaft. The assembly may include an outboard leg that snaps into place on the inboard leg and is capable of rotating between two extreme positions.

Abstract: A locking head assembly (210) for a telescoping boom (118) of a crane (110) includes a locking head (212) having a base (218), an operating plate (220) operably coupled to the base, one or more cylinder pins (222) and/or one or more section lock arms (226) movable in response to movement of the operating plate relative to the base. An actuator (214) is operably coupled to the operating plate and configured to move the operating plate relative to the base. The actuator includes a motor (234) and a drive arm (236). The motor is configured to drive the drive arm between a drive arm first position and a drive arm second position. A motion mitigator (216) is connected to the actuator and the locking head and includes a housing (238), a rod (240) movable relative to the housing, and a biasing device (242) disposed between the rod and the housing.

Abstract: This crane is provided with a counterweight which includes an engaging part, a swivel body which is configured to be capable of swiveling, and a fixing unit which is provided on the swivel body, includes an engaged part that can connect with the engaging part, and can adopt a front position and a rear position; in each of the front position and the rear position, the fixing unit and the counterweight are linked by the engaged part being arranged in a position corresponding to that of the engaging part and being connected to the engaging part.

Abstract: A tensioning device, more particularly a hydraulically actuated chain tensioner, for a chain drive of an internal combustion engine, having a tensioner housing, a tensioning piston which is displaceably guided in a piston bore of the tensioner housing and has a piston skirt, a transport securing means for fastening the tensioning piston in the tensioner housing, a adjustment apparatus for incrementally adjusting and limiting the working range of the tensioning piston, and a final position securing means for the captive arrangement of the tensioning piston in the piston bore. The transport securing means, the adjustment apparatus and the final position securing means together have a single securing ring for fastening the tensioning piston in the tensioner housing, the incremental adjustment and limiting of the working range of the tensioning piston and the captive arrangement of the tensioning piston.