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Lifter
New South Wales, Australia

We are handling packs of copper cathode in strapped bundles probably 20 catode plates with a total of 3700kg.
We cut the steel staps holding the bundle and load flat onto a tipper to feed the furnace.
We want to be able to rotate the bundle to load vertically into the furnace with the straps cut. Anyone seen any attachment to do this. Or any ideas?

Posted 8 May 2009 10:47 AM

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BrianS
Texas, United States

Your application is exactly the same as one I solved in 1978 in Quebec.  The cathodes are covered in nodules of different sizes and are very unstable in a bunch. Not like sliced bread, I bet.  More like plates with varied size ball bearings weld on the surfaces.  In that work,  the client was making the cathodes and stacking, squaring, rotating the bundle and then banding to send to people like you.  You have the reverse need.

If yours is a serious inquiry, I have done a solution.  It will require about a six tonne forklift and a special attachment.  The attachment was one of a kind, but the customer ordered three more after the first was delivered.  It was my design.

If you choose to pursue this, I'll need details of the load  and its component parts.  Contact me via e-mail at bscally at earthlink dot net   or phone me at 1-282-992-2006, the number for Unit Laod Handling Systems, Inc.  We have a web site as well at triple W-unitloadhandling dot com and a store front on Forklift Action.

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Posted 15 May 2009 00:57 AM

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