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2. American Crane Corporation - Wikipedia

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   American Crane Corporation is an American manufacturer of construction cranes based in Wilmington, North Carolina. It manufacturers lattice boom crawler cranes with capacities ranging from 50 to 275 tons. The American Crane Corporation was founded in 1882 as the Franklin Manufacturing Company, and in 1892 the name changed to American Hoist ...

3. Harrington Machine Shop - Wikipedia

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   The Harrington Machine Shop is an historic, American industrial building that is located in the Franklintown area of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

4. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

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   A gantry crane has a hoist in a fixed machinery house or on a trolley that runs horizontally along rails, usually fitted on a single beam (mono-girder) or two beams (twin-girder). The crane frame is supported on a gantry system with equalized beams and wheels that run on the gantry rail, usually perpendicular to the trolley travel direction.

5. Overhead crane - Wikipedia

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   An overhead crane, featuring runways, bridge, and hoist in a traditional industrial environment. Overhead crane at the Skanska precast concrete factory in Hjärup, Sweden. Gantry-style overhead cranes of the Hainaut quarry in Soignies, Belgium. An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in

6. Material-handling equipment - Wikipedia

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   Cranes provide less flexibility in movement than industrial trucks because they only can operate within a restricted area, though some can operate on a portable base. Most cranes utilize trolley-and-tracks for horizontal movement and hoists for vertical movement, although manipulators can be used if precise positioning of the load is required.

7. Rigging (material handling) - Wikipedia

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   Rigging is the equipment such as wire rope, turnbuckles, clevis, jacks used with cranes and other lifting equipment [1] in material handling and structure relocation. Rigging systems commonly include shackles, master links and slings, and lifting bags in underwater lifting.