BACK STOP FOR CRANE

• US 20190225465A1
• Filed: 01/26/2017
• Published: 07/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Company Limited (Kobe Steel Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Company Limited (Kobe Steel Limited)
• Inventors: KOIZUMI, Yukio, MATSUO, Yohei
• Granted Patent: US 10,640,342 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 23/82 Luffing gear
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 23/823 Bracing equipment acting in vertical direction
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 23/92 Snubbers or dashpots for preventing backwards swinging of jibs, e.g. in the event of cable or tackle breakage
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 13/007 the damper being a fluid damper
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 2224/0208 Alloys
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 2230/0047 Measuring, indicating
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 2230/06 Fluid filling or discharging
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 9/3278 for lubrication lubricating per se F16N

Abstract

A back stop for a crane which eliminates operator'"'"'s discomfort and adverse effects on surrounding environment due to generation of abnormal noise and enables greasing work to be facilitated. A back stop includes an outer casing having a base end portion turnably connected to a boom or a crane main body and an opening portion opened in the outer casing front end portion; an inner casing having a base end portion turnably connected to the crane main body or the boom and having a front end portion side slidably fitted into the outer case through the opening portion; and a greasing tube arranged in the outer casing or the inner casing. An inlet of the greasing tube is arranged outside of the outer casing or outside of the inner casing on the base end portion side on which the greasing tube is arranged. A discharge port of the greasing tube is attached to a front end portion of the inner casing.

Claims

1. A back stop for a crane connected to an up-down body which is attached to a crane main body so as to be capable of going up and down and connected to the crane main body to prevent the up-down body from falling down, the back stop for a crane comprising:

an outer casing which has an outer casing base end portion turnably connected to one of the up-down body and the crane main body, and an outer casing front end portion arranged on a side opposite to the outer casing base end portion, and is formed with an opening portion opened in the outer casing front end portion;

an inner casing which has an inner casing base end portion turnably connected to the other of the crane main body and the up-down body, and an inner front end portion arranged on a side opposite to the inner casing base end portion and to be inserted into the outer casing from the opening portion, and is slidably fitted in the outer casing; and

an inner greasing tube which is arranged inside one casing out of the outer casing and the inner casing and greases a slide portion between an outer circumference surface of the inner casing front end portion and an inner circumference surface of the outer casing,

wherein the inner greasing tube includes;

an injection portion which is arranged, on a base end portion side out of an outer casing base end portion side or an inner casing base end portion side of the one casing, outside of the one casing, and is formed with an inlet opened for accepting grease;

a guide portion connected to the injection portion and disposed in the one casing; and

a discharge portion connected to the guide portion and attached to the inner casing front end portion, and is formed with a discharge port opened to allow the grease having passed through the guide portion to be discharged into the outer casing.

2. The back stop for a crane according to claim 1, wherein

the outer casing base end portion is turnably connected to the up-down body,

the inner casing base end portion is turnably connected to the crane main body, and

the guide portion of the inner greasing tube is disposed in the inner casing and the injection portion is arranged outside of the inner casing on the inner casing base end portion side.

3. The back stop for a crane according to claim 2, wherein the inner greasing tube is disposed over an entire length of the inner casing.

4. The back stop for a crane according to claim 2, further comprising a coil spring which is externally fitted to an outer circumference portion of the inner casing base end portion and comes into contact with the outer casing front end portion to compressively deform,

wherein the inner casing has an end plate which covers an end portion of the inner casing base end portion, the end plate being formed with a hole portion opened which allows insertion of the guide portion such that the injection portion of the inner greasing tube is arranged outside of the inner casing.

5. The back stop for a crane according to claim 2, wherein

the inner casing includes a contact member which forms at least a part of the inner casing front end portion and contacts the inner circumference surface of the outer casing, the contact member being provided with a through hole through which insertion of the guide portion is allowed such that the discharge portion of the inner greasing tube is located closer to the front end portion side of the inner casing than the contact member is.

6. The back stop for a crane according to claim 5, wherein a material of the contact member has a coefficient of friction smaller than a coefficient of friction of a material of the inner casing.

7. The back stop for a crane according to claim 1, wherein

the back stop further includes an outer greasing tube arranged along an outer circumference portion of the outer casing to grease a slide portion between an inner circumference surface of the outer casing front end portion and an outer circumference surface of the inner casing,

the outer casing front end portion is formed with a greasing port opened which penetrates the outer casing front end portion so as to communicate the outer circumference surface of the outer casing with the inner circumference surface of the outer casing, and

the outer greasing tube includes an outer discharge portion connected to the greasing port of the outer casing front end portion so as to communicate with a gap between the inner circumference surface of the outer casing and the outer circumference surface of the inner casing.

8. The back stop for a crane according to claim 7, wherein

the outer casing includes a tubular member fixed to an inner circumference surface of the opening portion of the outer casing front end portion and having a slide inner circumference surface slidable with the outer circumference surface of the inner casing, and

a material of the tubular member has a coefficient of friction smaller than a coefficient of friction of a material of the outer casing.