PRODUCTS | LIFTING ATTACHMENTS
Q GGR’s GSK 1000 uses a vacuum to lift stone
Although now part of Columbus
McKinnon, Camlok is a UK company with a long history of making below-the-hook attachments, in its case plate clamps. The company history stems from a general industrial need to lift and transfer steel plate – its product design has evolved from that to the vast spectrum of handling devices it currently offers. For lifting steel plates – the original
for example, offers among several other such attachments its Stone-Grip 1000. It has a capacity of 1.0t and rubber-lined clamping faces – a refinement unknown to the Romans – and GGR advises using a secondary safety strap if lifting at height, but an ancient Roman engineer building an aqueduct in the centuries before Christ would have recognised the device and been able to use it. The boulder and stone scissor grab, also from GGR, can handle stone units – they don’t have to be shaped – up to 200kg. The Boulder Stone Lifter is even simpler: it is described as “a flexible tool that can be used as a below-the-hook lifter”, and is identical in design and in principle to that used by the Romans. For heavier stone units GGR suggest
its powered vacuum lifter range. Vacuum lifters were originally developed to lift panes of glass, and that is still a primary application, but suction-pad technology has improved to the extent that vacuums can now lift rough surfaces (unfinished stone, as above), porous surfaces (cardboard boxes full of production-line goods), and heavy loads (notably steel plates), which makes them ubiquitous in fabrication workshops. GGR’s Stone Slab Vacuum Lifter GSK1000 can lift 1,000kg loads of polished or porous stone as well as other porous materials such as drywall, plasterboard and structural insulated panels (SIPs). It comes with a range of pads from 90kg to 1,000kg depending on the shape and size of the load.
P Kilner’s 12V vacuum lifter lifts horizontally or vertically
www.hoistmagazine.com | December 2022 | 35 Kilner Vacuumation claims to be the
longest-established vacuum lifting company in the UK and has been supplying standard or bespoke glass lifters, steel plate lifters, concrete lifters, and lifters for wood, plastics, coils, sacks and much more for over 50 years. This autumn it introduced a new, small, versatile battery-operated vacuum lifter to its range. The product has a capacity of 600kg and is recommended for loads such as plates, slabs and rigid panels. It is powered from a 12V battery and can be used to lift horizontally or vertically.
focus of the company – it has vertical plate clamps, horizontal plate clamps, lifting magnets, screw clamps and hand clamps. To lift and transport steel drums – a particularly common need throughout industry – it has its DC500 drum clamp. The product clips to the upper rim of a drum, and the drum’s self-weight locks it into position. The device carries a sealed drum at an angle – to carry it level, Camlok’s DCV500 Vertical Lift Drum Clamp carries open or sealed drums vertically. For confined spaces the company has a low- headroom drum grab. Sticking with drums, Morse Drum is based in Syracuse, New York, US, and since 1923 it has, as its name suggests, been specialising in manufacturing drum- handling equipment. Offerings include hand drum trucks, industrial drum handlers, machines for turning drums end-over-end to mix the contents, drum handling forklift attachments, and heavy-duty drum lifts for
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