This section provides an overview for lifting equipment as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 9 lifting equipment manufacturers and their company rankings.
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Lifting Equipment is a general term for metal fittings that are capable of standing the lifting loads required to suspend, move, or secure goods and materials.
Lifting Equipment of various sizes and load capacities are available, ranging from ladle hangers in kitchens to slinging equipment used in crane operations in construction and civil engineering.
Lifting Equipment for hanging curtain rails from the ceiling in hospitals is called fixed Lifting Equipment. Many of them are V-shaped to distribute the load on the ceiling board, and they are useful in hospital beds where curtains are frequently drawn.
Familiar Lifting Equipment applications include S-shaped hooks used in the kitchen to hang cooking utensils and rags, and indoor Lifting Equipment used to hang hops from the ceiling using connecting fixtures such as eyebolts.
Lightweight materials such as plastic, wire, and steel are suitable. Large Lifting Equipment such as steel U-shaped shackles that lock into place are used to carry in steel materials at building construction sites and to transfer materials at factories.
U-shaped shackles are available in screwed and bolted types and cannot be easily removed. Lifting Equipment is indispensable for lifting steel materials. Other typical Lifting Equipment suitable for slinging are the hook type and ring type.
The main characteristic of Lifting Equipment is the shape of its connecting parts.
U-shaped shackles can be screwed or bolted and do not come off easily. This is the standard Lifting Equipment indispensable for lifting steel materials. Other typical Lifting Equipment suitable for slinging are the hook type and ring type.
Lifting Equipment of the clap type is used for steel plates and other items that are to be hung horizontally.
The wire used to hoist heavy materials has a loop at the end, and the process of manually securing and checking the wire is called slinging. Therefore, when it is commonly called a sling hanger, it is a name that refers to a hanging part for materials with a large load capacity in combination with its shape.
Lifting Equipment with steel or wire fittings installed on the ceiling or top surface with fixing screws, etc., is called Fixed Lifting Equipment.
Lifting Equipment is collectively called a sling. In the sense of a lifting strap, a baby carrying strap that holds a baby in a tassel is also called a sling.
Among slings as Lifting Equipment for hanging a baby, a nylon sling is a band- Shaped Lifting Equipment made of nylon or other synthetic fibers. Generally, hooks and wire ropes are used as Lifting Equipment for slinging. However, a nylon sling is used when the object to be lifted does not have a suspension ring to hang the hook.
A nylon sling is a band-shaped Lifting Equipment. Both ends of the band are attached to the hook, and the center of the band is used to wrap the object to be lifted. The advantage of using a nylon sling as a sling is that it can be hoisted without a sling, and that it does not damage the surface of the object to be hoisted. In addition, since the hanging position can be changed, slinging can be freely performed according to the work space and the position of the center of gravity. Nylon slings are sometimes used as slings when it is necessary to change the sling position little by little, such as when inserting a box-shaped object. As a demerit, it is necessary to set the object surely in the center part of the belt. If the object is lifted at a position that deviates from the center of the belt, the object may rotate, so be careful.
A type of Lifting Equipment is called a balance. Lifting Equipment such as columns, panels, large construction equipment, etc., are used when it is difficult to hoist a sling with ordinary Lifting Equipment or when the center of gravity is unstable.
To use a balance, hang the upper part of the balance on the hook of a crane. Then, multiple hooks suspended from the balance are used to hang the object to be lifted. Some types allow the use of chain blocks as well as wires from the balance, so that the load can be rotated after lifting.
Some Lifting Equipment, as the term implies, consists of a single pillar on the balance, while other types have a rectangular pillar, making it possible to hoist huge objects.
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Duff-Norton is a division of Columbus McKinnon Corp and was originally founded in 1883, now headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Duff-Norton is an automation machinery manufacturer for aerospace, defense, automotive, entertainment, pharmaceutical, food processing, paper, energy, rail/road, and energy supply industries. Duff-Norton manufactures standard and customer-designed screw jacks (mechanical actuators), linear actuators (electro-mechanical actuators), modulator actuators, swivel joints, electric cylinders, rotary unions (rotating joints), acme and ball screws, nuts and rail maintenance equipment to customers globally.
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