The handling of large metal sheets and heavy loads is a slow and difficult process, in several stages, in shipbuilding. It involves the use of clamps, slings, hooks and other tools. The probability that the load falls is high, with dangerous repercussions on the building site in terms of safety and cost. The procedure for hooking and slinging is not simple.
The building material (sheets, profiles and pipes) comes, generally, on the construction site from trucks for heavy loads. The first movement is performed, with the unloading and the storage of the pieces.
During the movement, metal sheets are positioned horizontally within big warehouses. Then they have to be moved again, also vertically, during the assembly of the hull and superstructures. A lengthy and elaborate process.
This no longer happens, since Vuototecnica designed its round flat suction cups, code 08 360 10, specially designed for handling heavy loads vertically and horizontally, with a lifting force of 254.3 kg (calculated with a safety factor that is equal to 3).
These suction cups have a labyrinth-graved tabletop, to facilitate and ensure the grip. They are available in three different standard compounds, fitting to materials and they are already equipped with four sprung cup holders, for they can be assembled on the automatism safely.
They are vulcanized on a steel support, on which four pins are cemented – they are in steel, too – with four self-locking nuts. The vacuum connection is ensured by a ½ “gas threaded sleeve, which ensures the proper suction flow.
Please study the product specifications; Vuototecnica staff is at your disposal.
