Sunday, January 13, 2008

Lifting

Lifting
Cranes and Hoist are generally used for moving and raising material

Jib Crane:


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A Jib crane is a type of crane where a horizontal member supporting a moveable hoist, is fixed to a wall or to a floor-mounted pillar. They are mainly used on military vehicle and in industrial premises

Wire Rope Hoist:
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Chain Hoist
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A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium. Above are examples of a chain hoist and a Wire Rope Hoist.

Overhead Traveling cranes
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Gantry cranes
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Overhead travelling cranes and gantry cranes are particularly suited to lifting very heavy objects and huge gantry cranes have been used for shipbuilding where the crane straddles the ship allowing massive objects like ships' engines to be lifted and moved over the ship.

Scissors lift
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Nice post, There are many types of small and big cranes available in market. It is lifting heavy and large equipments up and down horizontally. Thanks for sharing this.
saria