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HOIST-TRUCK [1 record]

Record 1 2005-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
CONT

traveling gantry: A movable gantry built on wheels for traveling on rails and supporting a crab and hoist.

OBS

Hoists are designed to lift from a position directly above their loads and thus require mobile mountings.

Key term(s)
  • hoist traveling trolley
  • hoist truck

French

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

Ponts roulants. Les extrémités de la poutre de roulement du chariot-palan [sont] solidaires [...] de sommiers [qui] contiennent les galets roulant sur les chemins de roulement [...]

OBS

Pluriel : chariots porte-palans.

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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