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HANDLING TROLLEY [4 records]

Record 1 2025-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cranes (Hoisting and Lifting)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
DEF

An overhead type crane equipped with a device for handling charging boxes.

OBS

A special steelworks overhead travelling crane with two trolleys : a classical trolley with hook for operations such as handling furnace doors and another trolley with a charging boom with the scrap bin at its end.

OBS

open-hearth furnace charging crane : term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grues (Levage)
  • Ponts roulants et portiques (Levage)
DEF

Appareil de levage à charge suspendue du type pont équipé d'un dispositif à manutentionner les auges à mitrailles.

OBS

Pont roulant utilisé dans la sidérurgie et qui comprend deux chariots : l'un classique à crochet pour les opérations telles que dépose de portes de four, l'autre pivotant avec bras de chargement recevant à son extrémité l'auge à mitrailles.

OBS

pont roulant chargeur de four Martin; pont roulant chargeur de four : termes et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hospital Furniture

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilier d'hôpital
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).

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trucks and Dollies (Materials Handling)
  • Materials Storage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chariots de manutention
  • Stockage
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).

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
DEF

Large cantilever cranes designed to lift and move containers to and from a pier and a ship alongside. Attaches to a spreader by cables driven by large crane motors. Some cranes can be as high as 100 feet off the pier.

DEF

Transporter crane. Type of crane used for handling shipping containers. Typically, it is a rope-hoisting, rope-traversing crane which operates by lifting the container(hoisting) and moving it along a trolley(traversing) before lowering it into position. The crane moves along the length of the quay on rails. It is equipped with a spreader beam which attaches to the corner castings of the container to enable it to be lifted.

Key term(s)
  • container handling transporter
  • container handling transporter crane

French

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

Le terminal polyvalent de BRULE-TABAC [...] Équipement bord à quai : 1 portique à conteneur 40 T sur rail, 1 grue Caillard sur rail benne 15 T et crochet 30 T, 1 grue automobile benne et crochet 40 T.

OBS

container : Anglicisme. Caisse pour le transport de marchandises.

Spanish

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