Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft

Demag Aktiengesellschaft

Demag Cranes & Components Gmbh

Heinz Flaig

Roland Staggl

Heinz Hasselmann

Harald Bitsch

Karl Zacharias

Udo Gersemsky

Eberhard Becker

Winfried Gievers

Hans-Hermann Osthoff

Gregor Jansen

Manfred Stober

Josef Paul Saeftel

J&uuml;rgen Heun

Jan-Helge Steinkopf

Giuliano Persico

Uwe Lichtenvort

Anton Munzebrock

Franz Schulte

R&uuml;diger Ostholt

Ralf Eising

Johannes Kluge

Rainer Horbach

Alfred Bernd

Udo Dietrich

Herbert Dreher

Axel Hauschild

Martin Middeldorf

Wilhelm Hesse

Willi England

Paul Saeftel

Dirk Schulte

Udo Neumann

A brake for a hoist, includes a brake disk and a magnetic filed which is aligned transversely to the brake disk and generates a reactive force which inhibits a movement of the brake disk and is dependent on the rotation speed of the brake disk as well as a radial distance from the rotation axis. The magnetic field is formed by two magnetic poles arranged on both sides of the brake disk. A cost-efficient, compact and wear-resistant brake which operates in dependence on the rotation direction and is applicable in particular for a drive of a hoist, with the drive including a motor without generator-produced torque and/or with greatly load-dependent rotational speed, and a self-locking gear mechanism, can be implemented in such a manner that both magnetic poles are movable by the reactive force along a predetermined path from a rest position in opposition to a return force of an elastic member in rotation direction, wherein the radial distance is preset during movement along the path by a desired course of the rotation direction dependent and rotational speed dependent braking force and adjustable by the return force of the elastic member.

Brake, in particular for a drive of a hoist

A winch including a casing for accommodating an electric motor, a gearbox and a roller for winding and unwinding a traction member. In order to provide a cost-effective flat winch which can be transported by a single person and used universally, in particular for the domestic sector, the casing has a box-like configuration to exhibit a shape and size of a suitcase or attach&eacute; case, with the casing having opposite flat outer sides, with one outer side having attached thereon a suspension member, and the other outer side being formed with an opening for passage of the traction member. The electric motor, the gearbox and the roller are arranged in the casing and extend in a common plane, with the casing including a handle to allow transport of the winch by a person. The electric motor may be designed as a universal motor, and connected via a belt drive to the gearbox which is designed as a self-locking worm drive.

Portable winch

A torque support, especially for wheel blocks, is arranged between a gear unit housing with a drive shaft and a driven unit housing. The torque support includes a plate-shaped base body which is detachably fastened to the gear unit housing with fastening elements. The plate-shaped base plate has at least two fastening locations comprising through openings for fastening the torque support to the driven unit housing. To keep the shearing forces resulting from the torque support and acting on the gear shaft small while the torsional moment is simultaneously absorbed with low play and in such a way that load peaks are damped, a corresponding plastic ring body is inserted into each through-opening in a positive-locking engagement. A side of the plastic ring body facing the driven unit housing has an edge area which widens radially outward forms an elastic disk element arranged between the driven unit housing and the torque support.

Torque support

A securing ring, includes a body defining a ring opening and having a circumference of substantially circular configuration at formation of a slotted gap to define confronting ring ends. The body defines a ring plane and an axis of symmetry and has a radial width which continuously increases, at least in sections, from the ring ends onwards at both sides of the axis of symmetry. Each of the ring ends has a L-shaped configuration and is extended by a lug jutting out from the ring plane and formed with a throughbore. Both lugs of the ring ends are positioned on a same side of the ring plane, with the throughbores of the lugs extending in parallel relationship to one another and to the ring plane.

Securing ring

An electric drive with brakes, in particular for hoists, lifting devices or positioning transporting systems, having a brake disk which is movable axially on a motor shaft so as to rotate therewith via a toothing. The brake disk has brake faces at both sides and can be pressed against a stationary counter-brake disk by a spring force. An electromagnetic device is provided which, when connected to current, causes the brake to be released against the spring force. The electromagnetic device has a.c. magnets and E-shaped magnet coil yokes. The counter-pole faces associated with the coil yokes are arranged at magnet yokes which can move angularly on all sides so that the counter-pole faces can be aligned at the end faces of the E-shaped magnet coil yokes located opposite thereto when current is applied to the a.c. magnet.

Electric drive with brakes, in particular for hoists, lifting devices or

A compact hoist with a central hoist housing and an enclosed transmission located opposite a motor. The output shaft, of the motor, is guided coaxially through a transmission output shaft that is hollow and supports a sprocket wheel, or similar device, and receives power from the transmission. The hoist is particularly easy and economical to assemble, service and repair, and is flexible when in use. In a preferred embodiment, the motor shaft is mounted in a transmission cover opposite the motor and the transmission-output shaft is mounted, on one side in the wall of the hoist housing, and on the other side in an end plate of the motor. That configuration makes the invention particularly suitable for automatic assembly.

Easily disassemblable compact hoist

A chain hoist for supporting and selectively raising and lowering a load includes a powered gearwheel that is connected through a frictional lock with one or more friction disks fixed for rotation with the hoist drive shaft so as to provide a slip clutch arrangement. The hoist additionally includes, between one of the friction disks and a pressure spring, a safety brake disk for rapidly halting movement of the load in the event that the rotation of the brake disk attains or exceeds a predetermined speed or rate deemed to be excessive. For this purpose, the brake disk carries a detent pawl that is pivotally displaced by centrifugal force and into engagement with a detent nose or projection defined on the hoist housing when the brake disk rotation exceeds the predetermined speed.

Chain hoist with integral safety device

A displacement armature motor is formed such that the deformation element allows a larger axial shifting and displacement path of the displacement armature while requiring a lower construction precision. The deformation element includes two frames (17, 17a). The frame (17a) is connected via two of its corner attachment positions (17b) to an attachment plate (19). The attachment plate (19) is connected to an extension (31) of the displacement armature. The frame (17) is connected with two of its attachment positions to the carrier arms (15a) of the support ring (15). The two frames (17, 17a) are connected to each other with their respective remaining corner attachment positions (17c) via a transfer element (18).

Brake coupler for displacement-type armature motor

The rotor is held on a shaft by means of a membrane providing an easy resilient deflection in axial direction and being stiff for torque transmission in azimuthal direction. The membrane is star-shaped, or has spiral arms or is of polygonal configuration. A membrane carrier is connected to a central part of the membrane or to polygon corner points; the rotor, through a sleeve extension of a short circuiting ring is connected to peripheral points of the membrane. The carrier is splined to or slip friction coupled to the shaft.

Motor with axially displaceable rotor

Chain guide for and in relation to a chain or sprocket wheel and being made of a pair of complimentary guide shells made as press parts and having when put together a pair of vertically extending cross shaped grooves; guide noses extend above the grooves and facing each other across a narrowing closable gap and above a shaft and groove bottom portion of the sprocket wheel.

Chain guide

A bi-directionally effective overload protection device for a rotation machine part includes two coaxially arranged, mutually juxtaposed ring discs frictionally connected to a machine; a gear disc with outer gearing and inwardly directed flange means circumscribes the ring discs; a plurality of springs hold said gear disc normally in particular position in relation to the ring discs, permitting the gear disc to rotate relative to the ring discs upon occurrence of an overload in either directional rotation; a dual switching ring having an inner and an outer ring portion is connected to the second ring disc through resilient bar or leaf spring portions of the switching ring; actuator ramps on the outer and inner ring portions cooperate with axially extending cams on the gear disc so that either the inner or the outer ring is axially shifted on overload in one or the other direction; switches are arranged in relation to the inner and outer ring portion for being actuated by the particular one that is axially shifted on occurrence of overload.

Overload protection

A cam following roller is one arm while a latching member is the other arm of a two-armed lever. The roller rides on the surface of a cam disk. The latch is supported by a spring in a released position relative to the stopping points of the sprocket as long as the predetermined speed limit of lowering a hoist is not exceeded. The sprocket is formed of two segments which are releasably connected with each other by screws. Brake pressure springs are arranged in the shape of a cup-spring package between the screw head and support surfaces of the sprocket segments. When the lowering speed of the hoist is exceeded, the latch is pressed into one of the stopping points of the sprocket, said sprocket arresting, by way of a brake lining, the brake drum and the cable drum connected therewith. In order to lower the load, one of the screws is slowly released and the contact pressure of the segments and of the sprocket with its glued-on brake lining on the brake drum slowly relaxes, such that the frictional resistance of the brake lining is slowly overcome. The heat generated during the braking process leads to an expansion of the brake drum and, thereby, again to increased braking, possibly again up to the point of arrest of the lowering motion. By again slowly releasing the screws holding the sprocket segments together, the load may be easily controlled and safely brought down.

Safety mechanism for a hoist

A shift control arrangement is provided for rail vehicles to bring about the simultaneous shifting of all directional guide wheels on the vehicle at the same time, including those in both the front and rear undercarriages of the vehicle. This is achieved by interconnecting the shift linkages of each undercarriage and, preferably, by placing the connection in the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

Direction shift control for connected vehicle undercarriages

The invention covers an apparatus to reduce the effect of lateral forces during turns and/or one-sided or uneven loads on persons in a vehicle, whereby the chassis is provided with a feeler responding to lateral acceleration and inclination respectively, and the initial signal of a regulator arranged at the starting point of the feeler influences the device to tilt the chassis versus the carriage around an axis which is parallel with the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

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Bochum, Germany

Heinz Flaig