PIPE TRANSFER DEVICE Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering; manufacture of ship pipelines. SUBSTANCE: pipe transfer device has gantry with mounted-on carriage with drive-operated grip. Novelty in design of device is that hollow guide column with gear cluster fitted on axle is hinge-connected on rod of drive cylinder. and rod of grip with guide rollers is arranged in inner space. Movable column is coupled with guide of base by means of central cylindrical and side taper rollers installed on eccentric axles and embracing by their conical surfaces the wedge shaped surfaces of guide. Vertex of wedge is pointed from column guide, and grip rod is connected by one side through toothed rack with larger gear of gear cluster in vertical plane and by other side, with cylindrical rollers installed on eccentric axles on guide column; in other plane the rod is coupled by one side with cylindrical rollers installed on axles on guide column and by other side it is coupled with taper rollers installed on axles of guide column for axial displacement. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 4 dwg