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In 2002, Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU)—the North American industrial equipment sales and distribution arm of Toyota—was established in Irvine, California. [8] The same year, it became the number one selling lift truck company in America. [9]
Unimog 405/UGN on a lift table World War 2 American ground crew using a lift table to load a bomb onto a B-17 bomber. Lift tables can come in a vast array of configurations and can be built to suit various highly specialized industrial processes. For instance, they are often customized for integration into production lines, packaging systems ...
Typical manual pallet jack (lowered) A pallet jack, also known as a pallet truck or pallet pump, is a tool used to lift and move pallets.Pallet jacks are the most basic form of a forklift [1] and are intended to move palletized loads within warehouses, distribution centers, retail stores, and construction sites.
Transport equipment is used to move material from one location to another (e.g., between workplaces, between a loading dock and a storage area, etc.), while positioning equipment is used to manipulate material at a single location. [3] The major subcategories of transport equipment are conveyors, cranes, and industrial trucks.
Lifting equipment, also known as lifting gear, is a general term for any equipment that can be used to lift and lower loads. [1] Types of lifting equipment include heavy machinery such as the patient lift , overhead cranes , forklifts , jacks , building cradles, and passenger lifts, and can also include smaller accessories such as chains ...
A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th century by various companies, including Clark , which made transmissions , and Yale & Towne ...
Hoist atop an elevator. A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium.
A pallet inverter or pile turner is a machine that is used to turn over full pallet loads of packages or products. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term pallet inverter is also used to cover machines that turn the palletised load through 90 degrees only.