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bridge crane / travelling monorail

bridge crane / travelling monorail

bridge crane / travelling monorail

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I've designed monorail before where the monorail top flange is bolted to a supporting beam bottom flange and the hoist is the only thing moving back and forth.
I need to have this monorail move left-right similar to a bridge crane.
do you know what kind of roller type connection is should use to connect the top flange of monorail to bottom flange of supporting beam

RE: bridge crane / travelling monorail

Delagina:
It seems to me that your Sec. A-A is wrong. You need the red trolley beam so the basic hoist can travel north-n-south, similar to what you say you’ve done in the past. But, this is a fairly long beam with no compression flg. lateral support, so be careful. Then, at the ends of this red trolley beam, you need another set of underhung trolley rollers (wheels, trucks, whatever) not unlike the rollers for your basic hoist trolley, but heavier, so the system can travel east-n-west. And, here you have to be careful that the two end trucks run in unison so the whole moving bridge (red trolley beam) can’t skew w.r.t. its tracks on the bldg. beam lines.

RE: bridge crane / travelling monorail

If you need equipment moved in two directions, you need a bridge crane, not a monorail. The bridge crane is designed by the manufacturer based on criteria you provide (load, span, etc).

RE: bridge crane / travelling monorail

You can buy affordable bridge crane kits, for which you supply the design for the runway girders at the ends. The kits come with appropriate end trucks to distribute the loads to the runway girders.
Dave

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