ASSORTMENT CARRIER CRANE-MANIPULATOR Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering; material handling facilities. SUBSTANCE: assortment carrier crane-manipulator has truck-tractor, load platform with guard wall, bunks and boom type hydraulic manipulator with clamp arranged in tail part. It has also power unit with drive from truck-tractor power takeoff case, and members fastening the platform on truck-tractor frame. Truck-tractor has forward-hinged cab with slot clearance formed between cab and platform body wall to accommodate receiving-and-support device of boom clamp. In travelling position load lifting boom is transformed into horizontal line orientated along crane longitudinal axis and is placed on cradle of wall load-bearing crossmember, and clamp is placed in basket of receiving-and-support device arranged in slot clearance and secured on face surface of wall. EFFECT: optimization of design, enhanced performance characteristics. 8 cl, 16 dwg