DIGGER

1000 / 1500 / 2000 /

3000
SHIP UNLOADER

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Digger 1500

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THE DIGGER:
THE HIGH PERFORMANCE CRANE.

The steel and energy industry daily

require immense quantities of coal, ore
and additives all around the globe.
These large volumes are transported
across the oceans and unloaded in
the ports of destination. The owners
requirements are therefore absolutely
clear: highly efficient unloading and
shortest possible turnaround times
are decisive.
Cranes play a key role in this system.
The crane functions must be assured
in all climates and they must deliver
maximum handling rates.

A PERFECT CRANE SYSTEM FOR

HANDLING COAL AND RAW MATERIALS.

Q INFO
What exactly characterises the best ship unloaders?
What are the important factors?
Q The essential factors are:
low operation costs
high performance
permanent availability
Q In detail it depends on:

efficient and safe handling of coal and other bulk material

dynamic handling with maximum accelerations and speeds
high performance under continuous operating conditions during full shifts
minimum downtimes
low maintenance and operational costs
high service life
The Digger with its proven two-trolley system is the guarantor
of such peak performance.

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Material stock

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WITH THIS CRANE OUR

ENGINEERS DEMONSTRATE AGAIN
AND AGAIN THE MEANING OF TECHNICAL
INTELLIGENCE. THE DIGGER.
WITH THE TWO-TROLLEY SYSTEM.
What are our engineers working on with
a system proven over many decades?
They have the ambition of making
each component more efficient, more
dynamic while at the same time reducing maintenance costs even further.
They thus set new standards, again and
again. The best example: the Digger.
Its technical strengths appear primarily
in the perfect interaction of main trolley
and auxiliary trolley via a pre-tensioned
rope system. The use of automatic ropeadjusting devices and low-maintenance
components are a must and assure
extremely high availability.

As environmental protection is a very

important subject for us, a dust house is
part of the basic equipment. If required,
we install water spray devices and filter
systems to almost completely avoid dust.
The rigid, very robust steel structure in
box girder design is also characteristic
of the Digger: it is, on the one hand,
characterised by extremely low maintenance costs and, on the other hand, perfectly coordinated with the high dynamic
mode of operation of the ship unloaders.

The constructional design is characterised by the constant height of the

grab during trolley travelling. The particular aspect: the hoisting mechanisms
never need to interfere as a compensating factor due to the reeving of the
hoisting ropes via the auxiliary trolley.
The controlled superposition of the
movement, however, is always possible.
Rope slack of the trolley ropes is
unknown with the two-trolley system
and thus the slack of the holding and
closing ropes during lowering of the bulk
goods is minimised. In particular in the
case of very high waterside or landside
outreaches and large gauges, the principal advantage is totally decisive: the
ropes neither beat against each other
nor against parts of the structure of the
unloader neither when closing the
grab nor when starting the hoisting
procedure. Rope-supporting trolleys are
not required.
In order to improve load paths, the hopper is positioned as close as possible to
the ship.

THE TECHNICAL CONCEPT.

A particular aspect are the booms

with optimised stability executed as a
twin girder. The trolley rails are arranged
above the internal webs. In this case,
too, we act with environmental protection in mind: the rails are provided flexible
lining (thus sound emissions remain
reduced to a minimum), these are alternatively also welded directly onto the
upper chord as a load-bearing member.

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4 ropes

2 ropes
rope trolley

4 ropes
grab trolley

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Rope system with tensioning device

closing drum

trolley driving winch

hoisting drum
R3

R2

quick-change
rope connection
R1
auxiliary trolley

waterside

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Rope system with main and auxiliary trolleys

landside

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Bulk handling 3 Diggers unloading ore

One further advantage of the twin

girder booms: as a result of their design,
the main and auxiliary trolleys run
between the boom girders. This means
maximum free space for the movement
of the trolley and hoisting ropes.
The Digger is also held in high regard
because of its first-class electrical
equipment. This equipment is designed,
constructed and executed by a team
of Kocks engineers or in cooperation
with well-known suppliers of electrical
equipment.
The latest methods of stress analysis
measuring values from the wind tunnel
and the intention to create an optimal
crane system give the Digger its
concrete form. Apart from all German
engineering rules, daily practical experience also provides the inspiration for
all further developments. Thus deformations under extreme conditions are
not accidental.

These have already been calculated during

the projecting and design phase and taken
into account during dimensioning. Only a
rigid and less flexible structure is the solid
basis of a high capacity crane.
In summary, the Digger is ideal for
efficient bulk handling. Its proven twotrolley system and robust structure
assure highest hourly rating with lowest
maintenance expense.
Q INFO
Typically Digger
extremely efficient: pretensioned
rope system with main and
auxiliary trolley
very low degree of wear: components
with low maintenance costs
particular environmental acceptance:
dust house and trolley rails with
flexible supports
extremely stable: rigid, very robust
steel structure

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Location of hopper next to vessel

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THERE ARE MANY REASONS

FOR CHOOSING THE DIGGER.
THE MOST COMPELLING ARE:

O Personnel elevator

O Grab inside dust house with activated spraying system

01 THE BOOMS
The weight and stability of the boom
system of the Digger with waterside boom and bridge girder in twin
girder design have been optimised.
The characteristic feature of this
structure is the fact that it is subject
to extremely easy maintenance: the
structure can a) be easily and safely
reached from the exterior and b) the
interior is accessible.

We offer two types of trolley rails:

This is assured by platforms and

railings. The waterside boom is connected with the bridge girder via low-maintenance pivots. The use of the latest
bearing material is a must in this context. Box girders resistant to bending
assure absolutely safe suspension in the
gantry bolted via special fishplate joints.

as a welded rail: this can be

calculated in the stress analysis
as a load-bearing part by 75 %
of its cross-section.
as a bolted rail: with or without
flexible support.
A perfect rail transition assures shockfree travelling of the trolleys, executed
as a dovetail or a diagonal cut.

02 THE GANTRY
Digger gantries are rigid and
non-swinging, because the light box
design with strengthening by
diagonals and bracings has a particularly clever effect.

THE TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS.

03 THE TIES
The sophisticated tie system consists
of two waterside and two landside ties
forming the suspension of the booms
and also assuring the special stability
of the crane. The landside ties are provided with pure steel hinges. This is quite
different in the case of the waterside
ties: in order to assure hoisting of the
boom, these are equipped with maintenance-free hinged bushings.

04 ACCESS TO THE CRANE

The general technical concept of the
Digger allows the complete structure to
be reached easily and safely. Therefore
ladders, stairs and platforms complement one another to form an intelligent
system of access.

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05 THE HOPPER AND HOPPER

DISCHARGE UNIT
The hopper can receive a minimum of
three grab fillings. In order to assure
shortest distances and best load cycles,
the hopper is arranged as close as
possible to the waterside in the lower
part of the gantry.
As the goods to be handled are
different with different requirements,
the hopper is adapted exactly to
these requirements. This may be the
installation of a wear-resistant coating,
but also the installation of a special
discharge unit (vibrating conveyor, belt
conveyor, slat conveyor) in order to
transport the goods perfectly either
onto the quay-based belt conveyor or
directly onto a landside dump.
In order to protect the hopper against
overfilling and the unloader against
overload, the same is arranged on load
cells. These avoid further filling when
the limit values are exceeded. It goes
without saying that the complete discharge area is provided with walkways
and platforms for maintenance purposes.

06 THE TROLLEYS
As performance-dominating crane
components of the Digger, the main
and auxiliary trolley are sophisticated
examples of technical engineering.
Thanks to the clever combination
of the box girder design and welded
profiles, the rope-drawn trolleys are
very light but also extremely robustly
executed. The pretensioned rope
system assures very efficient interaction.
The rope pulleys for deflection of
the hoisting and closing ropes and the
wheels are arranged in the trolley
on high-quality anti-friction bearings
supplied by European fabricators. Highquality means above all: low degree
of wear and thus long service life.
The rope winches are also special parts:
these are arranged in the central machinery house and assure optimal movement of the trolley and maximum accelerations. Horizontal guide rollers lead
the wheels without flanges almost
wear-free.

In order to avoid dust emissions, a dust

house is part of the basic equipment of
the hopper. The consistent use of spraying devices, suction and filter systems
can reduce the dust burden on the environment to an absolute minimum.

We can also supply the main trolley

with a grab-rotating device also permitting 90 rotations. Thus the grab can
also be used as a grab longitudinal
to holding / closing ropes or as a grab
with the opening transverse to holding /
closing ropes.

O Hopper outlets

O Main and auxiliary trolley on twin girder boom

o Maintenace hoist inside of machinery house

07 THE CENTRAL MACHINERY HOUSE

The central machinery house is arranged
within the gantry structure and is characterised by its clear layout and ease
of maintenance. The holding and closing
winches are installed in this house
as well as the boom hoist winch and
in a separate area the transformer.
A maintenance crane, which can travel
over the complete surface, assures
optimal access to all components: a decisive advantage in case of maintenance
of all drive mechanisms. In this regard the
hoisting height provides an extremely
high degree of flexibility: all components
can be lowered to the ground without
causing any danger.
The house is pressure-ventilated.
Dust and fine particles are not a matter
for discussion thanks to an efficient
filter system.

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08 THE HOLDING AND CLOSING

MECHANISM
Both winches of the holding and closing
mechanism are arranged in the central
machinery house in the gantry. These
components have tasks of fundamental
importance: the holding mechanism
holds the grab during closing always
completely controlled. The closing
mechanism also participates 50 / 50
regarding the load distribution. Both
are responsible for hoisting and lowering
of the grab, but also for holding during
trolley travelling.
A Digger speciality are the rope drums
of the winches: these are provided with
rope stores, keeping one additional
reserve length of holding and closing
rope. The ropes can thus be re-adjusted
repeatedly, an important advantage in
case of premature wear (either due to
the close position to the grab head
or due to contact with the edge of the
hatch, cracking-off the rope socket
or rope connections).The service life of
the ropes until they are discarded is
thus extended repeatedly.

o Arrangement of hoisting and closing winch

inside of machinery room

09 THE BOOM HOIST MECHANISM

Assuring maximum safety for all crane
components is a core value of Kocks.
This applies in particular to the hoisting
winch. This winch is arranged in the
spacious central machinery house within
the gantry and is equipped with a
safety brake as well as an emergency
drive. Thus the boom can be kept
safe even in case of excessive speed
or failure of the drive. The emergency
drive assures safe movement into the
end position.

O Boom hoist system with safety band brake

10 THE CRANE TRAVEL

MECHANISMS
We also set standards with regard to
the crane travel mechanisms. The
wheels are arranged in a bogie equalising system and are driven either as
single wheels or in pairs. Either as
support of the wheels or in gearboxes:
anti-friction bearings from European
suppliers are a must.
In case of endangered areas, we
have developed floodable travel mechanisms or, where necessary, also
curveable trucks, thus assuring curving
up to 90 degrees.

11 DRIVERS CABIN
The cabin of the panoramic view type
provides much comfort and a full range
of visibility. The cabin is uncoupled from
the trolley via a separate movable frame
equipped with a travel drive mechanism.
The cabin carriage is moved on a profile
welded at the lower side of a boom
girder equipped with a friction wheel drive
or toothed bar drive, in accordance
with the requirements.

O Total view to control the load

O Drivers seat inside of cabin with ergonomical

arrangement of instruments

12 THE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

The freely programmable electrical
control, too, is state-of-the-art technical
engineering. It is based on approved
industry components communicating via
bus systems with the digital three-phase
frequency converters.
Anti-sway guiding of the hoist load or
optimised hoist load guiding can be realised for optimal operating conditions.
Semi-automatic or fully automatic operation assures continuously high handling
rates during long periods of operation.
The communication of the devices is
assured in accordance with the usual
industrial standards by Industrial
Ethernet, profibus or CANbus, to a large
extent via LWL connections.

The elements and indication devices

required for operation are designed
carefully and arranged meticulously in
accordance with ergonomic aspects.
In this cabin, the crane driver has everything under control.
In order to avoid the penetration of dust,
the cabin is ventilated via a filter system.
A comfortable air-conditioning unit is
also available which is part of the standard equipment of the Digger.

O Workplace place for engineers

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Efficient bulk handling

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THEORY:
MAXIMUM HANDLING RATES
WITH HIGHEST RELIABILITY.
SOLUTION: THE DIGGER

THE DIGGER IN OPERATION.

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Free digging pattern

The Digger is used where high quantities

of coal and other bulk material are to be
handled.
The Digger is operated both efficiently
and reliably. The intelligent coaction of
main and auxiliary trolley via the pretensioned rope system assures handling
rates of 3000 tonnes and more.
The use of the latest technical equipment is the basis of continuous performance during full shifts. This includes

the anti-sway device and the automatic

positioning control system as well as
the progressive SIS systems providing
fault diagnosis programs and maintenance modules precisely controlling
the maintenance status of the devices
and always informing accordingly.
The Digger has been developed exclusively for bulk handling and optimised
over decades. This is emphasised by
the dynamic, light and easy handling and
unequalled precision of its manoeuvres.

Q INFO
The Digger is characterised
as follows:

high handling rates

high positioning accuracy
high working speeds
low maintenance costs
high availability
long service life
high resale value

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Unloading directly to material stock

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Stability and rigidity of the gantry structure is the basis of high performance of the Digger

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WHY KOCKS?
CRANE CONSTRUCTION SINCE 1872.

Q KNOW HOW
Kocks has developed high-performance
ship unloaders since 1913. We are considered pioneers in the development of
container cranes in Europe and we are
leaders on the world market in the field
of Goliath cranes. Kocks sets standards
for the high performance of cranes.

Q SERVICE
Perfect maintenance is part of a good
product for us. We therefore train the
personnel of our customers intensely
in the fields of crane theory and crane
practice. We want to assure that
continuous availability of the cranes
is guaranteed.

Our engineers consistently apply the

approved regulations of German engineering when continuously developing and
designing cranes. Designing and classification for continuous operation is carried
out particularly conscientiously.

If a failure should occur in spite of

everything, we assist quickly and in a
flexible and unbureaucratic way.
Around the clock.

The goal always remains the same: increased efficiency, safety and environmental
friendliness of the cranes.
Q QUALITY
To us quality means: a sophisticated
product concept, profound know-how in
the fields of design and control as well
as the greatest accuracy with regard to
fabrication and execution. It goes without saying that our engineers test and
check all mechanical and electrical
components meticulously.
This provides decisive advantages:
maximum efficiency and reliability
of the cranes
low operational costs
long service life (even under the
toughest operating conditions).

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Home of Kocks Krane in Bremen

THE COMPANY KOCKS.

Q PARTNER APPROACH
The Digger is an extremely durable
product. The decision in favour of the
Digger means the start of a comprehensive relationship between customer
and supplier, which is evident from the
many repeat and follow-up orders.
We therefore attach great importance to
ensuring that this relationship is fair and
with long-term benefits for both sides.
For us this starts long before the signing
of contract. We will be pleased to advise
you, simply give us a call.

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THE DIGGER THE ESSENTIAL

TECHNICAL DATA.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE DIGGER.

DIGGER 1000

Q Capacity at the ropes 20 25 t

Q Hopper content 50 t
Q Operating speeds
Hoisting /Closing 120 m /min
Lowering /Opening 150 m/min
Trolley travelling 200 m /min

Q Gantry travelling 25 m /min

Q Size of vessel (on average) 70,000 DWT
Q Nominal capacity (Free Digging)
Coal 1,000 t /h
Ore 1,100 t/h

DIGGER 1500

Q Capacity at the ropes 30 35 t

Q Hopper content 70 t
Q Operating speeds
Hoisting/Closing 120 m /min
Lowering /Opening 150 m /min
Trolley travelling 200 m /min

Q Gantry travelling 30 m /min

Q Size of vessel (on average) 120,000 DWT
Q Nominal capacity (Free Digging)
Coal 1,500 t /h
Ore 1,650 t /h

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE DIGGER.

DIGGER 2000

Q Capacity at the ropes 40 45 t

Q Hopper content 95 t
Q Operating speeds
Hoisting /Closing 150 m /min
Lowering /Opening 180 m/min
Trolley travelling 240 m/min

Q Gantry travelling 30 m /min

Q Size of vessel (on average) 200,000 DWT
Q Nominal capacity (Free Digging)
Coal 2,000 t / h
Ore 2,200 t / h

DIGGER 3000

Q Capacity at the ropes 60 65 t

Q Hopper content 140 t
Q Operating speeds
Hoisting /Closing 150 m /min
Lowering/Opening 180 m /min
Trolley travelling 240 m /min

Q Gantry travelling 30 m /min

Q Size of vessel (on average) 250,000 DWT
Q Nominal capacity (Free Digging)
Coal 3,000 t /h
Ore 3,300 t /h

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KRANUNION.
WORLD MARKET LEADERS
UNITED.

Kranunion is an association of three crane manufacturers

specialised in hoisting and transporting heavy loads.
KIROW
ARDELT
KOCKS

is the world market leader for railway cranes

and slag pot carriers
is the world market leader for double jib level
luffing cranes
is the world market leader for Goliath cranes

Central to all Kranunion products are the technical design

concepts created by our experts. Of course, we continue to
optimise those fundamental concepts even further in the
interests of our customers. Kranunion products are therefore
based on practical requirements and are a symbiosis of
tradition and innovation combining the tried and tested with
the new.
Customers who choose Kranunion choose great German
engineering skill: for environmentally-friendly and safe, modern
technology, for low operating costs, for high performance and
reliability.

PHONE
FAX
E-MAIL

KOCKS
WESERSTRASSE 64
28757 BREMEN /GERMANY
+49 (0)421 66.01 0
+49 (0)421 66.01 400
[email protected]

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