Overhead crane
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An overhead crane is a crane with a single or multiple girder (bridge girder) bridge carrying a movable or fixed hoisting mechanism and traveling on an overhead fixed runway structure.[1]
An overhead crane, also known as a bridge crane, is a type of crane where the hook-and-line mechanism runs along a horizontal beam that itself runs along two widely separated rails. Often it is in a long factory building and runs along rails along the building's two long walls. It is similar to a gantry crane. Overhead cranes typically consist of a hoist to lift the items, the bridge, which spans the area covered by the crane, and a trolley to move along the bridge.[2]
Other Types of Cranes
Other types of cranes include:
- Box girder crane
- Bridge crane
- Cantilevered gantry crane
- Column mounted jib crane
- Crawler crane
- Derrick crane
- Double girder crane
- Double leg gantry crane
- Drop cantilevered jib crane
- Electric overhead crane
- Full cantilevered jib crane
- Gantry crane
- I-beam crane
- Industrial crane
- Jib crane
- Overhead traveling crane
- Semigantry crane
- Single girder crane
- Single leg gantry crane
- Stacker crane
- Straddle crane
- Telescopic crane
- Top running crane
- Tower crane
- Truss girder crane
- Under running crane
- Underhung crane
- Wall mounted jib crane
- Wall traveling jib crane
- Work station crane
