Foldable Personnel Basket with Quick-Attach Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing personnel baskets are bulky, cumbersome, and difficult to store and transport due to their rigid structures, and they often require over an hour to detach from crane booms for efficient storage, limiting their use on service trucks where space is limited.
Innovation Solution
A foldable and stowable personnel basket with a quick attach assembly and articulation plate locking system, allowing for rapid detachment, collapse, and folding into a compact size for easy storage and transport, while maintaining a level work platform during use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If personnel baskets use rigid structures with integral walls, floor, rails, and guards, then safety and structural integrity are improved, but storage and transport become difficult due to bulky and cumbersome design
Solution Approach 1:
The personnel basket is divided into separate modular components including walls, floor, ceiling, rails, and guards that can be detached and stored independently. This segmentation allows each component to be compactly stored while maintaining structural integrity when assembled, resolving the contradiction between safety and storage volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The personnel basket transitions from a static rigid structure to a dynamic reconfigurable system where components can be easily assembled and disassembled. The modular design with connection mechanisms enables the basket to change from a compact stored state to a functional work platform state, addressing both storage constraints and safety requirements.
2Loss of time
If personnel baskets are permanently attached to crane booms, then setup time is reduced, but the crane cannot be used for other applications and storage space on service trucks is wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment system is segmented into quick-connect components that enable rapid attachment and detachment of the personnel basket from the crane boom. This allows the basket to be quickly installed when needed and easily removed for other crane applications, resolving the contradiction between setup time and versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment mechanism transitions from a permanent fixed connection to a dynamic quick-connect system. This enables the personnel basket to be rapidly deployed and removed, allowing the crane to adapt between different applications while minimizing setup time and maximizing versatility.
3Volume of moving object
If prior art personnel baskets are detached from crane booms for storage, then space for equipment storage is improved, but the detachment process takes over an hour to complete
Solution Approach 1:
The connection system is divided into modular quick-connect components that can be rapidly detached without requiring complex disassembly procedures. This segmentation enables the personnel basket to be quickly removed from the crane boom and stored, resolving the contradiction between storage space and detachment time.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment system transitions from a time-consuming manual disassembly process to a dynamic quick-connect mechanism. This enables rapid detachment and reattachment of the personnel basket, allowing efficient use of storage space while minimizing the time lost during attachment and detachment operations.
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AI summary
A personnel basket that provides a partially enclosed work platform that may be readily attached or detached from the end of a crane boom and may be maintained level with the ground when suspended from a crane boom above ground and that is also capable of being collapsed from a work ready position into a stowed position of substantially smaller spatial volume when not in use.