Patent · US Expired

Mobile handling apparatus for loading and unloading ships in docks

US6648571B1 · kind B1 · utility

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7References

14Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Atecs Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

Hermann Franzen · Rheydt, DE
Dieter Klessinger · Düsseldorf, DE
Joachim Kroll · Jüchen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 14, 2000
Grant date	Nov 18, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 23, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB66C5/02
WIPO fieldHandling
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A mobile handling apparatus for loading and unloading ships in docks, the apparatus including portal supports, steerable traveling mechanisms arranged on the portal supports, an undercarriage freely movable on the traveling mechanisms, a harbor crane having a tower rigidly connected to the undercarriage, a luffing jib coupled to the tower, the luffing jib having an exchangeable device for picking-up a load, supporting girders mounted on the undercarriage so as to be horizontally moveable, the supporting girders each having a free end, vertical supporting pillars connected to the free ends of the supporting girders; and further traveling mechanisms arranged on the vertical supporting pillars so as to be raisable and lowerable.

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