Personnel trolley and elevator platform for a cargo container handling gantry crane

• US 4,858,775 A
• Filed: 02/12/1988
• Issued: 08/22/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Paceco Corporation (Mitsui E&S Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Paceco Corporation (Mitsui E&S Company Limited)
• Inventors: Crouch, John H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Basinger, Sherman D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brahan, Thomas J.
• Application Number:
  US07/156,304
• Time in Patent Office: 557 Days
• Field of Search: 414/137, 414/139, 414/139.5, 414/140.3, 414/141.3, 212/206, 212/210, 212/218, 212/219, 212/220, 212/217, 182/142
• US Class Current: 212/312
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 9/00 Kinds or types of lifts in, or associated with, buildings or other structures characterised by control systems B66B1/00; apparatus for raising or lowering persons on stages of theatres A63J5/12
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 19/002 Container cranes B66C19/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 11/04 for movable platforms or cabins, e.g. on vehicles, permitting workmen to place themselves in any desired position for carrying out required operations Working platforms on fork-lift trucks B66F9/127; vehicle aspects of service vehicles B60P3/14; platforms for cleaning windows A47L3/02; devices for rescuing persons from buildings A62B1/02; liftable or lowerable platforms for use on ladders E06C7/16; maintenance travellers for bridges E01D19/10; scaffolds on an extensible sub-structure E04G1/22

Abstract

A personnel trolley and elevator platform for a cargo container handling gantry crane wherein the gantry is comprised of outreach boom and inboard girder portions having trolley rails mounted thereon, the personnel trolley being mounted on the rails between the cargo container handling trolley and the end of the boom and including its own traveling motors for independent movement along the boom with the lift and lower machinery for the elevator platofrm mounted thereon.

Claims

1. In a personnel trolley and elevator platform for a cargo container handling gantry crane having a lifting spreader trolley mounted for movement on lifting spreader trolley rails mounted on the gantry thereof, controlled from an elevated cab, said gantry including a boom having an outboard end, the invention comprising

an independent self-powered personnel trolley mounted on said rails and having a personnel elevator platform reeved thereto and suspended thereunder, said personnel trolley being disposed or position on the gantry between said lifting spreader trolley and the outboard end of said boom and,

wire rope drums for lifting and lowering said elevator platform,

lift and lower and horizontal movement controls for said personnel trolley and elevator located in said elevator platform, and

means for guiding the wire rope reeving of the crane relative to the personnel trolley when the reeving or the personnel trolley more relative to each other.

2. The personnel trolley and elevator platform of claim 1 wherein said wire rope drums for lifting and lowering said elevator platform are mounted on the elevator platform and include independent redundant systems.

3. The personnel trolley and elevator platform of claim 2 wherein the independent redundant systems are reeved to opposite corners of the personnel elevator platform.

4. In a personnel trolley and elevator platform for a cargo container handling gantry crane having a lifting spreader trolley mounted for movement on lifting spreader trolley rails mounted on the gantry thereof having a waterside end and a dockside end and controlled from an elevated cab the invention comprising

an independent self-powered personnel trolley mounted on said rails and disposed or positioned on the gantry between the lifting spreader trolley and the waterside end of the gantry for independent movement relative to said lifting spreader trolley, said personnel trolley having a personnel elevator including an elevator platform reeved thereto and suspended thereunder,

redundant wire rope hoist drums mounted on said elevator platform for lifting and lowering said personnel elevator, the wire ropes from said drums being independent and reeved to opposite corners of the personnel elevator,

lift and lower and horizontal movement controls and hoist reeving brake release controls for said trolley and elevator located in said elevator platform, and

means for guiding the wire rope reeving of the crane relative to the personnel trolley when either the reeving or the personnel trolley moves.