Bridge crane

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Bridge crane (orange) with driver's cab. In addition to the hook , the crane is equipped with electromagnets for handling sheet steel .

Small bridge cranes are usually operated with a pendulum control unit suspended from a cable

Bridge cranes are cranes that are typically permanently installed in machine houses , production and assembly halls . They consist of one or two box girders, the bridge , which can be moved sideways. Along the span of the bridge runs a trolley with winch , over a pulley , the support means (usually a hook can discharge or pull).

Related systems

• The gantry crane is technically similar , but its running rails are not high, but at ground level.
• The semi- portal crane is a hybrid form of bridge crane and gantry crane . It has a raised rail on one side and a support like a gantry crane on the other.
• The stacker crane does not carry a winch under the trolley, but a forklift mast . It is a storage and retrieval system designed for logistics tasks .

literature

• Karl-Heinrich Grote, Jörg Feldhusen: Dubbel - paperback for mechanical engineering . 20th edition. Springer, 2001, ISBN 3-540-67777-1 , 2.9.3, pp. U 33 .

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