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Granted Patent B2
US 10,703,610 · App. 15/780,874 · Granted Jul 7, 2020

Lifting bracket

Inventor: Per Fenger (Terndrup, DK)
Assignee: LIFTRA IP APS
B66C1/108B66C1/666B66C13/085B66C13/46G01B7/30G01B21/22F03D80/50G01B7/31G01B21/24
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Patent No.
US 10,703,610
App. No.
15/780,874
Granted
Jul 7, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A lifting tool used during lifting and mounting of a rotor blade on a rotor hub of the wind turbine which facilitates repositioning of the crane's main wire. Thus, a lifting bracket, having an elongated element with a first through-going outlet configured to take up a part of a first link, which is connected with the main wire, and a second through-going outlet configured with a spherical bearing to take up a part of a second link on the load, and wherein the elongated element adjacent to the spherical bearing is provided with a measuring instrument with a signal transmitter for registering the angle between the lifting wire and the vertical direction, wherein the signal transmitter is configured to transmit a signal containing measurements for visualization on an external unit with a screen placed at the crane operator and/or near the crane supervisor.

Claims (7)

1. A lifting bracket for attachment between a main wire of a crane and a load suspended on the main wire, wherein a lengthwise axis of the main wire is defined as a Y-axis, and a plane perpendicular to the Y-axis contains the X- and Z-axes, the lifting bracket comprising:

an elongated element with a first through-going outlet configured to take up a part of a first link which is connected to the main wire, and a second through-going outlet configured to take up a part of a second link on the load, the second through-going outlet comprising a spherical bearing which is configured to take up the second link,

wherein the elongated element, adjacent to the spherical bearing, comprises a measuring instrument with a signal transmitter for registering the angle between the main wire and the vertical direction, wherein the signal transmitter is configured to transmit a signal with measurement results for visualization on an external unit with a screen located by at least one of the operator or supervisor of the crane.

2. The lifting bracket according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring instrument with the signal transmitter comprise an inclinometer which measures angular rotation with respect to horizontal about the X-axis, and which through the signal transmitter transmits relevant signals thereof to the external unit.

3. The lifting bracket according to claim 2 , wherein the inclinometer measures angular rotation with respect to horizontal about the Z-axis and by the signal transmitter transmits angular rotation signals to the external unit.

4. The lifting bracket according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring instrument with the signal transmitter comprise an inclinometer which measures angular rotation with respect to horizontal about the Z-axis, and which by the signal transmitter transmits angular rotation signals to the external unit.

5. The lifting bracket according to claim 1 , wherein the signal transmitter is a wireless signal transmitter, and wherein the external unit comprises a wireless signal receiver for receiving a signal comprising angular measurement results for visualization.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2018
From: FENGER, PER
To: LIFTRA IP APS
Reel/Frame 045962/0859 →
Priority Claims (1)
DK 201500780 · Dec 3, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180362304A1 · Dec 20, 2018
Cited By (3)
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