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The operator's cabin hosts a display showing the tower crane's position, movement and operating area. Where the tower crane’s operating area overlaps with other cranes or prohibited zones these are also displayed. The system alerts the operator when the crane is approaching a prohibited area or another crane. [9]
The United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America (URW) was a labor union representing workers involved in manufacturing using specific materials in the United States and Canada. The union was founded in 1935 [ 1 ] as the United Rubber Workers of America and was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on September 12.
Unic was a French manufacturer founded in 1905, and active as an automobile producer until July 1938. [1] After this the company continued to produce commercial vehicles, retaining its independence for a further fourteen years before being purchased in 1952 by Henri Pigozzi , who was keen to develop Unic as a commercial vehicle arm of the then ...
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer which produces cranes and previously produced commercial refrigeration and marine equipment. It was founded in 1902 and, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and supports mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, and boom trucks under the Grove, Manitowoc, National Crane, Potain ...
A level-luffing crane is a crane mechanism where the hook remains at the same level while luffing: moving the jib up and down, so as to move the hook inwards and outwards relative to the base. [ 1 ] Usually the description is only applied to those with a luffing jib that have some additional mechanism applied to keep the hook level when luffing.
In accordance with the 2004 U. S. National Landmine Policy, The M7 Spider was permanently configured as a "Man-In-The-Loop" (MITL) weapon system with all victim activated capabilities removed. [ 8 ] Wired reported in 2004 that the Army intended to purchase 290,000 spider munitions at a cost of $513 million US dollars .
US Navy Linkbelt truck crane. Mobile Crane. Linkbelt 108H Crawler Crane; Manitowoc 777 Crawler Crane [11] Linkbelt HTC-8640 Mobile Crane; Terex MAC-50 All-Terrain Crane In service with US Marines; Entered Service 2007, [12] refurbished by Taylor Machine Works beginning in 2018. Replaced the legacy P&H HSHMC-25; Grove GMK4060HC All-Terrain Crane
An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in industrial environments. An overhead crane consists of two parallel rails seated on longitudinal I-beams attached to opposite steel columns by means of brackets. The traveling bridge spans the gap. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge.