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  2. Leitner Ropeways - Wikipedia

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    Leitner Ropeways is a business that manufactures and distributes products and equipment for ropeways, snow groomers, urban transportation systems, and wind energy in Italy and internationally.

  3. Hydraulic lift - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Hydraulic lift may refer to: A type of hydraulic machinery. Hydraulic elevator; A form of ...

  4. Spoiler (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    In aeronautics, a spoiler (sometimes called a lift spoiler or lift dumper) is a device which increases the drag and decreases the lift of an airfoil in a controlled way. Most often, spoilers are hinged plates on the top surface of a wing that can be extended upward into the airflow to spoil the streamline flow.

  5. Crown Equipment Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Crown later decided to stop making so many one-of-a-kind trucks and developed two lines of E-Z Lift Trucks: an H series (hand-operated) and a B series (battery-operated). In 1959, when its lift trucks had annual sales of about $50,000, antenna rotators had annual sales of $700,000, [9] but the transition to the lift truck business was under way ...

  6. Liftboat - Wikipedia

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    The ORCA series of self-propelled, self-elevating platforms was designed by Bennett Offshore working in collaboration with the Offshore Technology Development group of Keppel Offshore & Marine. These SEPs range in size from small platforms designed for the Gulf of Mexico to large units up to 115 m in length, capable of installing offshore wind ...

  7. Elevator algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The elevator algorithm, or SCAN, is a disk-scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and write requests.. This algorithm is named after the behavior of a building elevator, where the elevator continues to travel in its current direction (up or down) until empty, stopping only to let individuals off or to pick up new individuals heading in the ...

  8. Lift-on/lift-off - Wikipedia

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    However lift-on/lift-off vessels can load and unload their own cargo unassisted. Lift-on/lift-off vessels can operate out of docks with no dockside cargo handling equipment. "In May 2010 the Office of Naval Research (ONR) conducted a ... at-sea demonstration of their Large Vessel Interface Lift-on/Lift-off (LVI Lo/Lo) crane system in sea state ...

  9. Elevator operator - Wikipedia

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    The Smith Tower in Seattle, Washington uses traditional elevator operators, as seen in this 2008 photo.. An elevator operator (North American English), liftman (in Commonwealth English, usually lift attendant), or lift girl (in British English), is a person specifically employed to operate a manually operated elevator.