Kobelco Cranes Co., Ltd.

Keiko Inada

Eiji Miya

Hitoshi Kurotsu

Daisuke Takaoka

Yasuo Ichikawa

Teppei Maedo

Provided is a crane which comprises a luffing jib including a lower jib and an upper jib coupled to the lower jib in such a manner as to be separable from the lower jib, the lower jib is attached to a head of a boom to have a laid-down posture at a position between the boom and a strut when the upper jib is separated from the lower jib, when the boom is lowered and laid down to allow the head of the boom to come into contact with a ground and when the strut is lowered and laid down to allow a distal end of the strut to come into contact with the ground, and the lower jib has a length which causes no interference with the strut when the lower jib has the laid-down posture at the position between the boom and the strut.

Crane and crane assembling method

Disclosed is a raisable-lowerable member which comprises a boom and a jib. The boom comprises a first supporting portion configured to rotatably support a jib foot when the jib is set in a protruding posture; and a second supporting portion configured to rotatably support a supportable portion of the jib when the jib is set in an enfolded posture. A position adjusting and holding unit of the jib is configured to couple, to the frame, a specific site of the second link in such a manner that a relative position of the second link with respect to the frame in a rotational direction of the second link is adjustably changed to allow the rotational axis of the second joint portion to become coincident with the rotational axis of the jib foot, and to hold the second link at the changed relative position.

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Akashi, Japan

Keiko Inada