Cranes

Cranes

A crane is a type of machinery used for lifting and moving heavy materials in construction, transportation (loading and unloading merchandise) and other fields. Most cranes are equipped with a hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them around.

Industry: Industrial machinery

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deflection

Industrial machinery; Cranes

Displacement due to bending or twisting in a vertical or lateral plane, caused by the imposed live and dead loads.

attachment point

Industrial machinery; Cranes

Designed lifting point that is part of a load

slash

Industrial machinery; Cranes

Denoted by the / symbol, it indicates that two words are to be taken individually or together and denotes “and/or”.

collectors

Industrial machinery; Cranes

Contacting devices for collecting current from the runway or bridge conductors. The mainline collectors are mounted on the bridge to transmit current from the runway conductors, and the trolley ...

sills

Industrial machinery; Cranes

Connecting the lower ends of two or more legs of a gantry crane on one runway, these structural members are horizontal.

electric baffle

Industrial machinery; Cranes

Conductors that are wired to cut off electric power to approaching motor-driven equipment if track switches, drop sections, and other movable track devices are not properly set for passage of ...

two blocking

Industrial machinery; Cranes

Condition under which the load block or load suspended from the hook becomes jammed against the crane structure preventing further winding up of the hoist drum.