Control arrangement for causing track supported implement to remain in parallelism with itself

US4095160A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fried Krupp · DE

Inventors

• Franz Sedlmayer
• Peter Muller · Prien am Chiemsee, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 1976
• Grant date: Jun 13, 1978
• Expiry date: Jun 4, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66C9/16
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A control arrangement, especially for use with a track supported implement, having an elongated beam with carriages at the opposite ends supported on respective tracks in which pick-up elements on at least one of the carriages are sensitive to movement of the respective carriage in a horizontal plane and about a vertical axis on the respective track. The pick-up elements are longitudinally spaced on the curve and supply respective signals to a comparator which emits a control signal which varies as the difference between the pick-up signals varies. The control signal is employed for developing an influence on the beam tending to restore it to the condition of parallelism with itself.