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GOLIATH CRANE [3 records]

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Record 1 2025-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
  • Metal Processing
DEF

An overhead type crane equipped with mechanisms for lifting and tipping foundry ladles.

CONT

The duties of cranes of the overhead and goliath types vary considerably. Sometimes a heavy crane... may be worked on a continuous day and night duty cycle. The steelworks ladle crane is an example of the latter use. This type of crane can be designed for loads of 300 tons or more.

OBS

ladle crane: term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ponts roulants et portiques (Levage)
  • Transformation des métaux
DEF

Appareil de levage à charge suspendue du type pont équipé des mécanismes à lever et basculer la poche de coulée.

OBS

pont roulant de coulée : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

OBS

pont roulant de coulée : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cranes (Hoisting and Lifting)
  • Cranes (Construction Sites)
DEF

A crane, usually of at least 50 tons capacity, used for building blockwork piers and ship construction.

OBS

Different from the Goliath crane in that the portal frame carries a swing-jib crane, which can command a considerable distance outside the portal legs and for ship construction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grues (Levage)
  • Grues (Chantiers)
CONT

Pour la construction des digues en mer, on utilise les titans. Un treuil (de 20 à 150 t), porté par un chariot, peut se déplacer sur un chemin de roulement porté par un bâti mobile sur rails (translation), la poutre de roulement (flèche tournante) pouvant tourner autour d'un axe de rotation vertical.

Spanish

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Record 3 1987-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
  • Cranes (Construction Sites)
DEF

A powerful traveling crane mounted on a movable gantry of large span.

CONT

Where there is no elevated rails to carry the truss, the overhead crane may stand on tall legs of its own; it is then called a "goliath" crane...

OBS

goliath crane : standardized by the British Standards Institution.

French

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

Dans les chantiers de travaux maritimes où on construit des «blocs artificiels» en béton, on emploie des grues montées sur des «portiques à grande portée» qui enjambent plusieurs files de blocs (fig. 97). [...] Le portique est mobile [...]

Spanish

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