Patent ID: 11939193
Assignee: ITREC B.V.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 5:
6. The crane according to claim 1, wherein the energy consuming equipment is an exchangeable tool, wherein the exchangeable tool has, or is connectable to or connected with a shank provided with a shoulder, and
wherein the travelling block supports a tool clamp which is configured to releasably engage on said shank in order to suspend the exchangeable tool underneath the travelling block, the tool clamp comprising:
a female, open-centered body defining a shank receiving passage with a central vertical axis allowing introduction of the shank into the passage from below; and
one or more mobile tool retainers adapted to, in a non-operative position thereof, allow introduction of the shank from below into the shank receiving passage and, in an operative position thereof, engage below the shoulder of the shank that has been introduced into the passage so as to suspend the shank, and thereby the tool, from the tool clamp.