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Overhead industrial cranes, also called lifting cranes, are materials movement machines that are essential for many industrial processes including construction, loading and unloading of large objects, manufacturing and many other operations. Also known as hoist cranes, overhead cranes operate from an overhead steel beam or pair of beams bridged between two structural supports; a trolley runs along these beams carrying a hoist, which is used to lift and reposition heavy loads. They are powered by hydraulics, internal combustion or electric batteries.

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Gorbel Inc.
Fishers, NY
800-821-0086
Gorbel®, Inc. has over thirty years experience providing overhead handling solutions to customers in a wide range of industries. We offer a comprehensive line of products, including overhead cranes, to make sure that all of our customers needs can be easily met. To learn more about the products and services we can offer you, call or visit our website today!
Brehob Corporation
Indianapolis, IN
800-632-4451
Established in 1953, Brehob Corporation offers customers 24 hour service operation, service and repair solutions, inspections for job safety and to save you money, load testing and capacity certification. Our technicians understand your needs and know your lifting equipment inside and out. Call today on your upcoming overhead cranes order to get started!
American Equipment, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
888-299-0896
At American Equipment, our offerings include specialty in-house hoist fabrication, parts and service. In addition we offer other material handling services to clients throughout the United States. For overhead cranes and more, there is no better company to call. Please contact us today for more information on the products and services we can offer you.
Otsego Crane & Hoist Company
Otsego, MI
269-672-7222
For your next overhead cranes and related needs, be sure to consider Otsego Crane and Hoist Company. We have everything necessary to create the best products on the market. Offering not only an extensive line of products, but services as well, we are the solution. To find out more about how our company can assist you, call or visit our website today! We look forward to hearing from you!
GH Cranes Corporation
Frankfort, IL
815-277-5328
Through our years of operation the GH Cranes Corporation has gained the experience necessary to design solutions for a variety of industries including aeronautical, automotive, shipping, paper mills, marine operations, refuse treatment, steel handling and many others. For all of your upcoming overhead cranes and other orders, contact GH Cranes today.
North American Industries
Woburn, MA
781-897-4100
At North American Industries, we have sales worldwide, service and repair centers nationwide and experience in a wide variety of industries. Our company has the expertise to design, manufacture, install and service overhead cranes. Let our company work with you, we pride ourselves on forming partnerships with our customers rather than simply making a sale.

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Regardless of a crane's configuration, overhead cranes share three basic elements of construction: each uses a bridge, a trolley and a hoist. The bridge is the overhanging arm that bears the weight of the lift; in bridge cranes and gantry cranes, the bridge spans two supports, while jib crane and cantilever crane bridges are suspended in air from one support; in these cases, the load bearing arm is often called a boom. The trolley is the electrically or mechanically powered mechanism that moves the hoist and crane hook along the bridge. The hoist is the fixture responsible for lowering and raising the crane attachment, hook, grapple, fork or auger. Wire rope or nylon cables connect the crane attachment to the crane's main electric, internal combustion or hydraulic lift located at its base or at the top of its support, using electric motors for smaller applications and internal combustion or hydraulic power for doing larger, heavier work.

Because cranes work with extremely heavy, dangerous loads, frequent inspections must be performed on overhead cranes for safety purposes. Every day the operating mechanisms must be checked for maladjustment, the pneumatic and hydraulic parts for leakage, the hooks for deformation or cracks and the hoist chains and end connections for wear, twist or distortion. The running rope and end connections should be checked on a monthly basis for wear, broken strands and other problems. Periodically, the overhead cranes should be checked for deformed, cracked or corroded components, loose bolts or rivets, cracked or worn sheaves and drums, other worn, cracked or distorted parts (e.g. bearings, gears and rollers) and excessive wear on brake system parts, chain drive sprockets and chains. Other components to be inspected include electric or fossil-fuel motors, indicators and electrical components such as pushbuttons and limit switches. OSHA has published a set of guidelines for the safe operation of overhead cranes.


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