IP Library Granted Patent US 7,676,925
Granted Patent B2
US 7,676,925 · App. 11/293,116 · Granted Mar 16, 2010

Lifting construction method and raising/lowering equipment of boiler module

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Patent No.
US 7,676,925
App. No.
11/293,116
Granted
Mar 16, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

An interference with existing structures is prevented at a time of a lifting construction of a boiler module. When the boiler module is lifted from the ground by lifting jacks provided on a steel frame main-beam and made an install construction to the main-beam, lifting jacks enabled to move laterally on the main-beam are disposed at forward and backward thereof to suspend the boiler module. The suspended module is lifted up to the main-beam and installed while changing a suspending position between an interference preventing position with existing modules and a prescribed suspending position by alternately moving the forward and backward lifting jacks laterally.

Claims (14)

1. A lifting construction method of a boiler module, in which the boiler module is lifted from the ground by suspending rods in a plurality of lifting jacks provided on a steel frame large beam and made to accommodate an install construction to the large beam, said lifting construction method of the boiler module comprising:

suspending the boiler module by disposing the lifting jacks, which are enabled to move laterally on the large beam, at a position forward and a position backward of the boiler module; and

lifting and installing the suspended module to the large beam while changing a suspending position between a position preventing an interference with existing modules and a prescribed suspending position by laterally moving the forward and backward lifting jacks alternately with a short stroke defined to limit an inclination range of the suspending rods of the lifting jacks;

wherein the forward and backward lifting jacks are moved laterally in alternating stepwise movement with a constant pitch by using short stroke lateral traveling jacks; wherein a spacer is arranged between the forward and backward lifting jacks to keep a minimum spacing between jacks in a lateral traveling direction.

2. The lifting construction method of the boiler module according to claim 1 ,

wherein the lateral traveling jacks, which are arranged to make the forward and backward lifting jacks travel laterally, are set interchanged at positions forward and backward of the respective lifting jacks to enable a shift in the lateral traveling direction.

3. A raising/lowering equipment for a boiler module,

which is used for a construction to lift the boiler module from the ground by suspending rods in a plurality of lifting jacks provided on a steel frame large beam, and to install the module to the large beam, comprising:

a plurality of lifting jack lines comprised of the plurality of lifting jacks arranged at positions forward and backward in a lateral traveling direction about a lateral moving guide rail arranged on the large beam;

a spacer arranged between the forward and backward lifting jacks to maintain a minimum spacing between jacks in the lateral traveling direction, such that the forward and backward lifting jack lines travel laterally in stepwise movement by using lateral traveling jacks, and

wherein the lateral traveling jacks have a short stroke constitution which is defined to limit an inclination range of at least one of the suspending rods of at least one of the plurality of lifting jacks, and

wherein a suspending position of the suspended boiler module is made changeable between an interference preventing position with existing modules and a prescribed suspending position.

4. A raising/lowering equipment for a boiler module, according to claim 3 ,

wherein the lateral traveling include driving hydraulic equipment, and wherein the driving hydraulic equipment of a front line of lateral traveling jacks and the driving hydraulic equipment of a rear line of lateral traveling jacks are independent.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Mar 4, 2014
From: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
To: HITACHI, LTD.
Reel/Frame 032384/0877 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 24, 2007
From: HITACHI PLANT ENGINEERING & CONSTUCTION CO., LTD.
To: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 019749/0946 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 13, 2006
From: KAWAGUCHI, SHIGEYOSHI; NAKAMITSU, KAZUHITO; HAYASHI, YUUICHI
To: HITACHI PLANT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017333/0096 →