Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System of a crane and an exchangeable tool
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Application No.: US17275259Application Date: 2019-09-12
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Publication No.: US11939191B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: Maarten Hugo Hooftman , Cornelis Martinus Van Veluw , Terence Willem August Vehmeijer
- Applicant: ITREC B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Schiedam
- Assignee: ITREC B.V.
- Current Assignee: ITREC B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Schiedam
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: NL 21614 2018.09.12 NL 23047 2019.05.01
- International Application: PCT/NL2019/050591 2019.09.12
- International Announcement: WO2020/055249A 2020.03.19
- Date entered country: 2021-03-11
- Main IPC: B66C13/00
- IPC: B66C13/00 ; B66C23/62 ; B66C23/88 ; F16B2/06 ; B66C23/52

Abstract:
A system includes a crane and an exchangeable tool. The crane and the tool respectively, include 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 includes the upper tool connector and 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 include a bearing allowing for swivelling of the open-centered body, and e.g. a rotational drive operative between the clamp housing and the female, open-centered body to actively drive said swivelling.
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