11 Sep Trasloelevators in industrial automations
Between the industrial automations designed and built by Uteco-Contec, traslo elevators are, together with the miniload, very important automation items for Warehouses.
Traslo elevators are three axes robots used mostly at the warehouses handling, and may reach and exceed 12 meters height (the oscillation varies from 6 to 46 meters).
Usually Traslo elevators are composed of a mobile frame that moves vertically on a column (which moves on two supporting wheels that run on a rail) and moves on a corridor bordered by two shelves. On the upper part there are the contrasting wheels which keep the sideshifter in vertical position and slide it on a profiled steel frame, while the mobile frame of the traslo elevator runs on the column by means of chains or carrying ropes.
There are two types of traslo elevators on the market, single-column and bicolumn (i.e. one or two columns, in fact), and can also be multi-corridor, which means that a trans-lift can pass from one corridor to another through a trans-shipment bridge. The lifting of the traslo elevators can be rope, belt or chain, depending on the type of load they have to carry (both as regards weight and size).
They are called miniloads (we spoke briefly at the beginning of the article) those traslo elevators that are intended for handling very light goods.