Indoor-Outdoor Crane
The Indoor-Outdoor crane can move from indoors to outdoors by jumping a gap. The gap is wide enough for a conventional roll-up door to pass through.
This means that trucks do not have to enter your building; the crane can move outside, lift the load and move back inside, leaving snow and dirt outside –where it belongs!
This novel type of crane has been in use at Givens Engineering in London, Ontario for several years, with good success.
This novel type of crane has been in use at Givens Engineering in London, Ontario for several years, with good success.
Trucks pull up outside the building and are unloaded by the crane outdoors. With the roll-up door (a standard roll-up door) open, the crane drives back inside bearing the load.
The Indoor-Outdoor Crane is patent-pending.
No modifications to your dock or roll-up door are necessary!
Tractor drives, as shown, propel the bridge (the moving rail) along the runways. The tractors can be either air or electric and are controlled from the same pendant as the hoist.
Capacities can be 100kg, 250kg, 500kg, 1,000kg and 2,000kg.
In the case of the system in these photos, 2 bridges are use in tandem, together, one at either end of long bundles of beams or tubes.
In some circumstances, a monorail can be used instead of a bridge-and-runway system, as in this installation:
In conclusion:
Don’t waste valuable floor space on truck loading; keep the trucks outside!
Come out to our London plant for a demonstration.
If you have an idea you’d like to investigate, call us for an estimate.