bridge crane

Ladles are moved by overhead bridge cranes to the casting machines which can handle two at a time.

Almost all paper mills use bridge cranes for regular maintenance needing removal of heavy press rolls and other equipment.

About 60 electric motors worked bridge cranes, fans, elevators, refrigerators and auxiliary machinery.

The NSC design includes two bridge cranes suspended from the arches.

The types of cranes engineered include bridge cranes, gantry cranes, monorails, and custom configurations.

The company was a manufacturer of industrial cranes that included types like, bridge cranes, hoist (device), overhead cranes, Gantry crane to name a few.

When bridge cranes and gantry cranes became more popular in factories in the late 1800s a steam engine was sometimes used as a way to power these devices.

Also used for handling heavy items like reels of paper, steel or machinery are electric overhead cranes, sometimes called bridge cranes because they span large factory bays.

To lift the components of the Space Transportation System, the VAB housed five overhead bridge cranes, including 2 capable of lifting 325 tons, and 136 other lifting devices.

The bridge cranes are used in the initial construction of paper machines because they make it easier to install the heavy cast iron paper drying drums and other massive equipment, some weighing as much as 70 tons.

Following the arrival of the shuttle in the assembly facility, Atlantis was fitted with two bridge cranes that lifted her vertically, to position her for mating to the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, already in place atop the mobile launcher platform.

Gantry cranes, bridge cranes, and overhead cranes, are all types of cranes which lift objects by a hoist which is fitted in a hoist trolley and can move horizontally on a rail or pair of rails fitted under a beam.