Abstract: Piste grooming vehicle and clearing blade for a piste grooming vehicle. The piste grooming vehicle has a clearing blade arranged at the front and includes a middle part and two side parts swivellably movable relative to the middle part, a setting arrangement for adjusting the middle part and/or the side parts and at least one manually operable actuating element arranged inside a cab for operating the setting arrangement. An electronic control unit is connected between the actuating element and the setting arrangement and operates the setting arrangement with a timed sequence of control commands for achieving at least one control function for the side parts and/or the middle part from an initial position to an end position preset by the control function.

Abstract: Piste grooming vehicle and clearing blade for a piste grooming vehicle. The piste grooming vehicle has a clearing blade arranged at the front and includes a middle part and two side parts swivellably movable relative to the middle part, a setting arrangement for adjusting the middle part and/or the side parts and at least one manually operable actuating element arranged inside a cab for operating the setting arrangement. An electronic control unit is connected between the actuating element and the setting arrangement and operates the setting arrangement with a timed sequence of control commands for achieving at least one control function for the side parts and/or the middle part from an initial position to an end position preset by the control function.

Abstract: The invention proposes a drive system for a vehicle, in particular for a tracked vehicle, having a drive machine and at least one load, which is mechanically coupled to an output drive of the drive machine, at least one control means being associated with the at least one load and reducing a power consumption of the at least one load in a starting phase of the drive machine temporarily compared with a power consumption in an operating state of the load whilst maintaining the mechanical coupling. Such a drive system has an improved starting capability compared with known systems since the reduction in the power consumption of the load in the starting phase of the drive machine reduces the risk of the drive machine stalling. The drive system according to the invention is considered to be particularly advantageous in the case of hydraulic loads and generators.

Abstract: The invention proposes a drive system for a vehicle (50), in particular for a tracked vehicle (50), having a drive machine (10; 80) and at least one load (36; 66; 90), which is mechanically coupled to an output drive (12; 82) of the drive machine (10; 80), at least one control means (38; 70) being associated with the at least one load (36; 66, 90) and reducing a power consumption of the at least one load (36; 66, 90) in a starting phase of the drive machine (10; 80) temporarily compared with a power consumption in an operating state of the load (10; 80) whilst maintaining the mechanical coupling. Such a drive system has an improved starting capability compared with known systems since the reduction in the power consumption of the load (36; 66; 90) in the starting phase of the drive machine (10; 80) reduces the risk of the drive machine (10; 80) stalling. The drive system according to the invention is considered to be particularly advantageous in the case of hydraulic loads (36; 66) and generators (90).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating a winch, in which a rope which is wound onto a driven reel is supplied to at least one capstan head and wound around said capstan head, with a capstan drive rotating the capstan head and producing a rope advance due to the rope friction existing between rope and capstan head. Moreover, the present invention relates to a corresponding device. As an improvement of the method and the device, the invention suggests a reel drive which is adjusted separately next to the capstan drive.