Abstract: A tower crane for assembling a wind turbine includes a boom assembly including a boom and a hoisting block coupled to the boom, an extendable tower assembly including a plurality of tower sections, and a transport assembly including a central support frame coupled to the tower assembly, a self-propelled transporter configured to transport the tower crane, and a diagonal brace extending between the central support frame and the transporter, wherein the diagonal brace includes a linear actuator configured to selectably extend and retract the diagonal brace.

Abstract: A mounting system for securing a base plate of an access device within a vehicle includes a plurality of lateral clamping beams configured for attachment to a tracked floor in an orientation in which each of the plurality of lateral clamping beams lies across a plurality of tracks in the tracked floor. The plurality of lateral clamping beams includes a front lateral clamping beam adapted to overlie a front edge of the base plate, and a rear lateral clamping beam adapted to overlie a rear edge of the base plate.

Abstract: A shipyard including a shiplift platform that is capable of being raised above yard level for maintenance is provided. Hoists are coupled with the shiplift platform, and jacks are coupled with the hoists. The jacks are capable of lifting the hoists relative to the yard, and are capable of lifting the shiplift platform above the yard level.

Abstract: An apparatus for steering a metal pipe during a roll grooving process including a clamp to be secured to a static structure of a grooving press spaced apart from a rotating cylinder of the grooving press, a pair of spaced parallel rods slidably disposed through spaced openings of the clamp, a handle affixed to first ends of the pair of spaced parallel rods distal from the rotating cylinder, and a guiding tool affixed to second ends of the pair of spaced parallel rods proximate to the rotating cylinder carrying spaced rollers adapted to contact an outer surface of a metal pipe during a roll grooving process to apply a force against the metal pipe. A method for applying a force against a metal pipe during a roll grooving process.

Abstract: A safety Device for electro-electronic driving for the spare tire, externally and, fixed at the bottom of the vehicle, allowing said spare wheel and tire to be moved up and down by electronic command from inside the vehicle, the safety Device is provided with one upper body (1), with one anterior side (4) fixed to one horizontal tube (2) and one vertical tube (14), being said anterior side (4) interlinked to one posterior cover (5) by prisoners (7) with washers (p) in the bores (9) of said posterior cover (5) wherein one micro engine is fixed (15) in the sense that the axis (22) of said micro engine is fitter on the channel (12) of the metallic reel (10), allowing the motion of said metallic reel (10) to both sides, causing one motion tape to spin (16) up and down, hoisting and descending the wheel with the spare tire.

Abstract: A brick layering system includes an infeed conveyor that brings layers of bricks, one or more brick layer compacting systems that remove unwanted gaps in the layers of bricks, an outfeed carousel for receiving compacted piles of bricks and a robot arms that moves the brick layer between the infeed, outfeed and compacting systems. The brick layer compacting system includes a table top having a generally flat surface for receiving the brick layer; and two mechanical stops secured to the table top on the generally flat surface so as to define two straight edges on the table top that are perpendicular to each other. The table top is oriented so that a virtual intersection of both straight edges is lower than any other parts of the two straight edges. Bricks received on the flat surface are moved by gravity towards the virtual intersection of the two straight edges, thereby removing gaps between the bricks and indexing the bricks relative to both straight edges.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing eggs based upon a characteristic such as gender are provided. Material is extracted from each of a plurality of live eggs, the extracted material is assayed to identify eggs having the characteristic, and then eggs identified as having the characteristic are processed accordingly.

Abstract: A supporting device for a gas turbine includes a base frame; a fixing member installed on the base frame so as to support one end of a gas turbine; and an absorbing member installed on the base frame so as to support the other end of the gas turbine. The absorbing member having lower stiffness than the fixing member so as to deform in first and second directions when the gas turbine thermally expands.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a crane, in particular to a modular mobile crane, with an under carriage, a support, and an upper carriage which comprises an upper carriage frame and a jib which can be separated from the upper carriage, wherein the under carriage comprises at least one connection point. According to the invention, the under carriage can be connected via the at least one connection point alternatively via at least one support-side connection point to the support, and to the upper carriage connected to said support, or via at least one jib-side connection point to the jib separated from the upper carriage.

Abstract: The present invention provides devices, apparatuses, and systems for lifting and mounting of clinical- and research-related equipment. In particular, the present invention provides a lift and mount system for mass spectrometers (e.g., for time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometers (MS)).

Abstract: The invention provides an unloading and loading crane arrangement comprising: a boom, in particular a projecting boom, for unloading cargo from or loading cargo onto a ship using a gripper attached to the boom; and a transverse conveyor track for moving the unloaded cargo inland in the transverse direction and moving the cargo to be loaded shipward; characterized in that the arrangement is provided with a conveyor floor with a vehicle which can be moved across the latter at least in the transverse direction for displacing cargo, which conveyor floor has a first conveyor floor part where the vehicle can receive a cargo from the gripper and a cargo on the vehicle can be presented to the gripper, and has a second conveyor floor part for presenting cargo from the vehicle to the transverse conveyor track and receiving cargo on the vehicle from the transverse conveyor track.

Abstract: A system and associated method are provided for lifting tower-top components from ground level to atop a wind turbine tower. A platform assembly is configured at least partially around a base of the wind turbine tower. Lifting cables are connected to the platform assembly and run to the top of the wind turbine tower and back down to ground. The platform assembly has a forward loading portion configured for securement of a tower-top component intended to be lifted to atop the wind turbine tower, wherein the platform assembly is engaged around the wind turbine tower and lifted by the cables to a position adjacent the top of the wind turbine tower for transfer of the tower-top component.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for moving, loading, and/or sorting logs. A log grapple may include opposing arm assemblies and independently positionable drive wheels disposed between the arms. The log grapple may be operable in a grapple mode, in which the arms are in a closed position and the drive wheels are in an open position, and a feed mode, in which the arms and the drive wheels are in closed positions. In feed mode, the first and second drive wheels may be rotated to drive the log through the arms. The log grapple may be further configured to delimb, measure, and/or cut logs in the feed mode. A log grapple may also include a measuring wheel assembly. Optionally, the measuring wheel assembly may include a hydraulic actuator configured to retract the measuring wheel and a gas spring configured to extend the measuring wheel.

Abstract: An automated materials handling system comprises a plurality of overhead hoist buffers (OHBs) for receiving a plurality of semiconductor wafer carriers. Each OHB is assigned to a respective one of a plurality of categories. Each wafer carrier is associated with one or more of the plurality of categories. Each respective category is associated with at least one of a plurality of event trigger types. An overhead transport (OHT) if provided for transporting each of the plurality of wafer carriers to a respective one of the OHBs in response to a respective trigger event. Each trigger event has one of the plurality of event trigger types. Each wafer carrier is stored in a respective one of the plurality of OHBs assigned to a respective one of the categories associated with the respective event trigger type of the trigger event causing that wafer carrier to be transported and stored.

Abstract: A linkage clamping system that may be used both for moving a clamp laterally and for rotating the clamp. The device includes a linear actuator, a rotational linkage assembly, and a clamping member. The linear actuator may first rotate the clamp, then move the clamp laterally, or may be configured to move the clamp laterally first, then rotate it. Both the lateral and rotational movements are achieved in distinct motions with a single linear actuator. The clamp may be rotated about 180 degrees and the lateral movement may only be limited by the lateral movement provided by the linear actuator. The linkage clamping system may be used to secure equipment, such as a material handler for unloading an open top railroad car.

Abstract: A welding machine having a frame that includes end supports spanned by a top beam with a truncated V-shaped cross-section. A vacuum track assembly disposed vertically beneath the top beam retains fabrics to be welded on a perforated surface using suction. A welding head travels along the top beam and applies heat and pressure to the surface to weld the fabrics together. The top beam and vacuum track assembly are extendable by including additional unit segments from which the beam and assembly are constructed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a lifting vehicle (1) comprising a chassis (2) with moving support elements (3), a tower structure (4) mounted thereon, said tower (4) being provided with a pivoting and telescopic boom (5) and a material carrier rack (6) with material-gripping means (7) extending from the rack (6), whereby the rack (6) is connected to the boom (5) by angularly adjustable means (9, 10, 11), said moving support elements (3) being rotated by shafts (12, 12a, 12b), of which at least one is a drive shaft.

Abstract: Elevators for use during construction, maintenance and emergency evacuation which ride on rails on the outside perimeter of buildings are proposed. The rails can be on flat or curved walls. Building setbacks may have movable rail sections connecting the setback wall with the outer perimeter wall for the elevator to travel up the side of the building. Trusses on the elevators can support a crane. A turntable on the elevator can work in conjunction with the elevator and the crane to install or remove trusses for supporting the crane. During emergencies people can escape buildings and fire fighting equipment and personnel can enter building using the outside elevators. Construction safety may be improved by use of the easy to assemble, disassemble and move crane. The elevator cars may be easily attached to rails on the outside of buildings when needed and removed, transported and stored when not needed.

Abstract: A lift system removes a display unit or components thereof from a tiled display wall in a way that minimizes the risk of damaging the removed display unit and other display units in the tiled display wall. A lifting structure is configured to selectively lift one or more display units away from the desired display unit when the lifting structure is raised by a vertical motion actuator. The lifting structure is further configured to be free to rotate slightly about a vertical axis when lifting the display units, so that the lifted display units are not constrained to purely vertical translation when lifted away from the desired display unit.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide a hoisting and lowering driving engagement multi-row chain in which the weight of the chain is balanced across the chain width direction so as to improve the load balance. This allows the weight of articles to be hoisted and lowered more stably hoisted and at higher positions, and results in an improvement of endurance of the chain, reduction of driving noise, miniaturization of the chain size, while the biasing or deflecting of intermediate tooth plates and inner tooth plates in the chain width direction is suppressed.

Abstract: A tire loading apparatus and method of packing tires that includes placing the tires in a rack, compressing the tires, and assembling the rack are disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more conveyors, scanners, and robots that load tires from a conveyor to a rack. A tire unloading apparatus is also disclosed. The unloading apparatus includes a scissor mechanism to raise and/or lower tire racks to an unloading platform. The unloading apparatus additionally includes one or more unloaders and conveyors. The sorting and unloading of tires is accomplished with one or more automated conveyors, scanners, and storage structures for reading information from incoming tires and using the tire information to sort and store the tires. A rack to improve compression and support of tires during storage and shipment is also disclosed.

Abstract: A roll changing carriage can be displaced transversely with respect to the strip rolling stand and a removal crossbar is provided for the removal of the set of backup rolls. In order to shorten the roll changing times and to automate the changing of the rolls, the removal crossbar can be positioned on the roll changing carriage and is provided with wheels on which the removal crossbar can be moved out of the roll changing carriage on guide rails running parallel to the rolls into the strip rolling stand on the intermediate roll rails, and can be pulled out of the strip rolling stand together with the set of backup rolls.

Abstract: A personal mobility vehicle lift for a vehicle having a door opening and a floor. The personal mobility vehicle lift includes a platform for supporting a personal mobility vehicle (PMV) thereatop. An upright preferably telescoping lift mechanism raises and lowers the platform in an up and down motion. An elongated stationary frame member is structured for connection atop and oriented preferably parallel to the floor of the vehicle. An elongated moveable frame member is connected to the stationary frame member preferably for reciprocal lengthwise movement. The moveable frame member is connected to the lift mechanism for reciprocal lengthwise movement. A drive mechanism operably interconnects the stationary and moveable members and the lift member whereby, when the platform is in the upper position, the platform is moveable from its outside position through the door opening into the vehicle.

Abstract: A method of placing cranes 1 and 2 with a reactor pressure vessel 4 (load) on a turntable 41 in the solid ground 57, turning the turntable 41 together with the cranes 1 and 2, and thus moving the reactor pressure vessel 4 to a selected position. Transferring an object by turning around a crane with a load in a narrow area without operating the crane.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for moving appliances that includes a vehicle having a cargo area with a front region and a back region. The vehicle also includes a door for accessing the cargo area. A track is mounted within the vehicle. The track extends between the front and back regions of the cargo area. An extendable boom is slidably mounted on the track. The boom is movable between an extended orientation in which the boom is adapted to project outward through the door of the vehicle, and a retracted orientation. The present disclosure further includes a winch having a cable mounted on the boom, and a drive motor for raising and lowering the cable.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for changing the harness of a loom. It has two bearing columns (16) arranged on a chassis, two jibs (18) which can move vertically on the columns and horizontally extendible and a device (26) o the jibs (18) to transfer head frames. The head frame transfer device (26) comprises two spaced boundary plates 932) interconnected by at least one cross-member (28) and fitted with guide rails (30) for the head frames, and two spaced bearers (34) on a transverse support (22) connected to the boundary plates 932) and which can pivot in relation to the transverse support (22) to accept and transfer the head frames. In order to adapt the article changer to different weave widths, the distance between the boundary plates (32) can b adjusted by hand or by a motor. To this end, the cross-members (28) and the transfers support (22) consist of two simultaneously actuated teles copic sections (28', 28"; 22', 22").

Abstract: A lifting device constructed as a frame or gantry vehicle which is supported on four movable vertical supports. The gantry vehicle further comprises a crane trolley which is horizontally movable along a frame on a plurality of rails. Two vertically arranged lifting cylinders are rigidly fastened at the trolley in a plane parallel to the vertical longitudinal center planes of the load carrying means and trolley trolley such that at least their synchronously telescoping piston rods project into the space below the trolley and support a load carrying arrangement at their free ends.

Abstract: A carriage for changing a harness or heald frame on a loom has a frame with a device for offering up the warp beam, a framework which includes a carrier mounted on the frame, and devices mounted on the carrier for offering up the warp stop motions and the heald shafts. Relative movement between the offering-up device is thus prevented due to the fact that the devices are mounted together on the carrier.

Abstract: A building crane apparatus includes: a gantry crane slidably held on a pair of guiding rails longitudinally juxtapositionally mounted on two side walls of a building, and an elevating device secured on the building side walls for lifting the gantry crane from on the building walls to subsequently raise the crane corresponding to the building height under construction to provide a crane climbable on the building walls for eliminating an additional supporting base for erecting the crane in order for unobstructedly moving the crane in the working area.

Abstract: A transport means for transporting pieces three-dimensionally, wherein the sections belonging to a section pair (1.sup.1, 1.sup.2, 4.sup.1, 4.sup.2) are box-like; a traction member (14.sup.1, 14.sup.2 ; 16.sup.1, 16.sup.2) has been disposed over its essential length inside the section (1.sup.1, 1.sup.2 ; 4.sup.1, 4.sup.2) and secured to the carriage with a tension means (31); and the transport means comprises return sheaves (15; 17), which have been placed in pairs, spaced at the distance of the section, with the carriage (2.sup.1, 2.sup.2 ; 5.sup.1, 5.sup.2) between the return sheaves; and the traction member has been disposed to run from the carriage over the return sheaves back to the respective carriage for forming a closed loop of the traction member and the respective carriage; and a power means (3, 6) has been arranged to move the traction member and by its mediation, the respective carriage.

Abstract: A truck for unloading goods includes a lower supporting member carried by the truck frame. The support member together with its side walls may be moved forward and backward by a screw driven mechanism. The doors to open the side walls open in response to movement of the support member. The truck includes a built in crane and bed leveling feet which engage the ground.

Abstract: A mobile cart for moving coil-shaped objects has a wheel-mounted horizontal base which supports an upwardly extending mast provided with a guideway along which a first support element is controllably movable up and down in a vertical direction above the base. A second support element is pivotably mounted at a proximate end to the first support element, and provides a horizontal guideway along which is suspended a downwardly depending clamp. On the base of the cart there is also provided an object support which, between two quarter-cylinder shaped horizontal support elements, has a gap of selected size. The clamp is operable to grasp a coil-shaped object, after which the first and second support elements are guidably moved upward, and the object supported by the clamps is horizontally moved to the object support. Lower distal end portions of the clamp slide into the gap and the coil-like object is lowered to rest on and be supported by an upper portion of the object support.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a duct with a tube assembly supported by a hanger that extends through an opening in the roof of the duct. A jack is provided to raise and lower the tube assembly during maintenance. The jack includes a base with an aperture therethrough and a pair of rollers attached to the underside of the base so that the jack can be moved across the roof. A pair of fluid operated cylinders are mounted on the base and project upward on opposite sides of the aperture. A jacking frame is attached to the other ends of both the cylinders and a rod extension passes through the base aperture for connecting the jacking frame to the hanger.

Abstract: A transfer device is disclosed for moving objects that are supported on a shaft from a receiving station to a transfer station. The shafts are disposed in adjacent substantially parallel relationship. A track extends from the receiving station to the transfer station. Moveable lifting hooks are positioned on the track. The lifting means is disposed for engaging the shafts so that the shafts and the objects supported thereon can be transferred from the receiving station to the transfer station. Each lifting hook is independently moveable to engage the shafts and the lifting hooks are moveable along the track so that the shafts and the objects supported thereon can be lifted and transported from the receiving station to the transfer station.

Abstract: A beverage truck having unique unloading and loading apparatus. The apparatus, which may be mounted to an existing beverage truck, or built into one as original equipment, has a framework at the front and back of the truck body which supports a track that spans the length of the body roof along its longitudinal center line. A trolley is carried on the track and moved by a powered chain drive from one end of the body to the other. Mounted to the trolley is a pivoting telescoping arm assembly that carries at the end of the arm a fork lift assembly. By operating simple controls, the user can move the trolley, extend the arm, raise, lower, rotate and tilt the forks to cause the forks to enter into the cargo area of the body, under the roof, to unload cargo from the truck and place it, e.g., on a loading dock or on the ground.

Abstract: An apparatus for the safe, cost-efficient disassembling of a sectionalized tower crane boom is provided that enables disassembling of the boom while the boom is at terminal heights. The disassembling apparatus includes a working platform that may be detachably coupled to an inboard boom section, a pair of independently controlled jibs for lifting and supporting the outermost boom section, and a supporting structure and puller hoist for shifting the position of a detached boom section to a position wherein the center of gravity of the detached section may be generally vertically aligned with the center of support for the disassembling apparatus. Vertical alignment of the disassembling apparatus' and the detached boom section's centers of gravity is provided to assure safe and stable lowering of the apparatus and detached boom section.

Abstract: A travelling gantry is used for exchanging the working rolls of roll stands. A carriage is mounted on a cross member of the gantry and a roll extraction device with roll receiving rotatable sleeves therein is suspended from the carriage in a vertically adjustable manner. The cross member of the gantry is preferably a box girder of which the lower wall has lateral projections providing guide surfaces engaging in an inverted T-section groove of the carriage.