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HOIST TROLLEY [1 record]

Record 1 2005-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
OBS

Any one or several of the hoists ... may be attached to the bridge [crane], usually suspended from a trolley attached to an I-beam track. The combination of a hoist on a track and the bridge crane itself moving on tracks provides for usable movement of equipment within a rectangular area governed only by the length of the bridge and the total horizontal movement of the bridge or gantry crane.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ponts roulants et portiques (Levage)
CONT

Les ponts roulants sont des engins capables de lever et de déplacer une charge à l'intérieur d'une aire, en général rectangulaire. Ils se composent essentiellement d'une charpente métallique, se déplaçant sur 2 chemins de roulement situés à une certaine distance du sol, et d'un chariot-treuil.

CONT

Chariot-treuil : le treuil est alors monté sur un chariot mobile le long d'un chemin de roulement.

OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

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