FEATURE BELTS, PULLEYS & CHAINS GUIDING THE WAY... A crane manufacturer has selected KABELSCHLEPP
Metool’s Easy Guide System, a new guide channel for cable carriers, in place of festoon systems. Stefan Rosenthal, export sales manager, looks into the benefits
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ith its headquarters in Katwijk near The Hague, CraneSolutions specialises in standard and special-purpose cranes, lifting
equipment, spare parts and accessories. Last Spring, the company received an order from a manufacturer of grippers for bulk materials cranes who wanted ten single-girder travelling overhead cranes. The customer wanted to expand its production line – with nine smaller
overhead cranes with lifting capacities up to 5,000kg and spans up to 8,340mm, plus a large model with a lifting capacity of 15,000kg and a span of 19,100mm. For all, the lifting height is around 5m. The cranes are installed in ‘work boxes’ in which the individual gripper parts are manufactured and welded. The cranes transport the material, whereby the large 15-ton crane moves already assembled, larger and heavier components to the next production step. The maximum travel speed for all cranes is 20m/min. While such cranes are typical standard orders for
CraneSolutions, in this case they were the first to be supplied with the Easy Guide System from KABELSCHLEPP. This flexible way of guiding cable carriers has replaced the festoon systems with cable loops that were used previously.
A STANDARDISED GUIDING SYSTEM FOR CABLE CARRIERS Specially developed for use in crane systems, this is a new guide channel for cable carriers with a space saving design that offers simple and fast assembly with few components. Available galvanized or as a stainless steel version, this can be installed both vertically and horizontally, and remains flexibly adjustable even after assembly. The optional roof serves as climbing protection, weather protection and mechanical protection, while also preventing the cable carrier from falling out or knocking. This means it has optimum guiding in a variety of different positions, including lying on its side, the company explains.
Of additional benefit, the system channel requires no complicated
steel structure and is suitable for all I-beams and box girders. Mounting holes for the cable carrier and cable ducts are provided every 850mm. KABELSCHLEPP Metool offers the same installation bracket for
different channel sizes or cable carrier types. Permanently installed cables can easily be mounted behind the channel, directly on the bracket, so that no additional cable conduits are
necessary, saving time and effort during assembly. “The Easy Guide System from KABELSCHLEPP makes it possible to build overhead cranes with cable carriers without loosely hanging festoon loops,” explains Grego Ernst, CEO and owner of Wisman Techniek, the Dutch partner of TSUBAKI KABELSCHLEPP. “We are working at a very similar price level here as with festoon systems. But in direct comparison, the guide channels feature much easier assembly. The channels are also much less prone
to malfunctions and no additional steel structures are necessary.” In this application, the Easy Guide System is part of a complete package – KABELSCHLEPP and Wisman Techniek also supply the suitable cable carriers, cables and hoses – configured ready to connect. The QuickTrax 0320 cable carrier with outside opening crossbars is used in all cranes, and these feature particularly high torsional rigidity thanks to their weight-optimised plastic frame. In
addition to this, crossbars with flexible film hinges allow particularly fast and easy cable laying. CraneSolutions also received the required cables from the TRAXLINE cable range, with which KABELSCHLEPP covers all requirements: control, power, single-core, data, BUS, LWL, coax cables, and system cables such as those in accordance with Siemens, Indramet or other specifications, and the ‘Heavy duty’ medium voltage series.
KABELSCHLEPP Metool
www.kabelschlepp.co.uk
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