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A scissor lift.. A lift table is a device that employs a scissors mechanism [1] to raise or lower goods and/or persons. Typically lift tables are used to raise large, heavy loads through relatively small distances.
Cibes Lift is a Swedish manufacturer of low speed, screw-driven platform lifts and cabin lifts for installation in public and private environments. Owned by the Cibes Lift Group, Cibes Lift is headquartered in the Swedish city of Gävle. Today, Cibes Lift is one of the largest manufacturers of space-saving, ready-made low-speed lifts and Cibes ...
A wheelchair lift in the front door of a TriMet bus in Portland, Oregon, in 2010 A bus in Prague with wheelchair lift extended, 2006. A wheelchair lift, also known as a platform lift, or vertical platform lift, is a fully powered device designed to raise a wheelchair and its occupant in order to overcome a step or similar vertical barrier.
The articulated platform has hinged connections between the main and the longitudinal beams. A rigid platform, the beams are bolted or welded together. The Syncrolift System was invented by Raymond Pearlson , who was later awarded the Sperry Award for the invention, development and worldwide implementation of a new system for lifting ships out ...
The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (U.S. Army designation; earlier Army designation: HO-1) is a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a flying platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for directional control.
USS Inca (ID-3219) was a tugboat acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was assigned to the Parris Island, South Carolina , Marine barracks. She served until 1 February 1919.
Semi-submersible heavy-lift ships have a long and low well deck between a forward pilot house and an aft machinery space. In superficial appearance, it is somewhat similar to a dry bulk carrier or some forms of oil tanker.
Softbank Group contributed $28 billion to the investment fund, of which $8.2 billion came from the sale of approximately 25% of British multinational Arm Holdings shares. [80] Saudi Arabia is the principal investor in the fund, its Public Investment Fund (PIF) agreed to inject $45 billion into the Vision Fund over 5 years, becoming its largest ...