Low-temperature adapted tower crane for ice structures

Abstract

A low-temperature adapted tower crane for ice construction. This invention relates to the field of ice sculpture construction. Current large-scale ice sculpture construction suffers from high reliance on manual labor, high costs, long cycles, and poor construction continuity. This invention includes a car conveying mechanism, a ring conveying mechanism, a column sleeve, a rack and pinion, a tower crane boom, a robotic gripper, and a rotary drive mechanism. The column sleeve is coaxially fitted onto the top of the column. The ring conveying mechanism is fixed around the outside of the column sleeve and concentrically arranged with the column. It temporarily stores ice blocks that are not immediately transferred and transports them to a preset gripping position. The top of the column sleeve is fixedly connected to the rotary drive mechanism, and the power output end of the rotary drive mechanism is rotatably connected to the tower crane boom. The car conveying mechanism, through a car gear pair meshing with the rack and pinion, enables the car conveying mechanism to rise and fall on the column, completing the transfer of ice blocks from the car conveying mechanism to the ring conveying mechanism. This invention is applied to the lifting of ice blocks using a low-temperature adapted tower crane.

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