Lift Table
Definition: What is a Lift Table?
This warehouse device uses a scissors mechanism to raise or lower goods and/or a person. The equipment is useful to raise heavy loads, usually large in size, for relatively small distances.
Lift tables are used mostly to manage pallets, load vehicles and raise workers for particular, specialized jobs. One of the advantages of this type of equipment is that they can be fairly easily to adapted to perform a variety of different tasks.
Most lift tables employ hydraulic cylinders and electrically powered pumps to power the scissor lifting mechanism. Pneumatic sources, trapezoidal-threaded screw drives, push chains or hydraulic foot pumps can be used when the loads are not excessively heavy. They are mounted in pits for floor-level loading. In this scenario, they become useful for access by manual pallet-pump trucks.
They also can be used by mobility-impaired individuals or people using wheelchairs or walking assistance aids to raise or lower them to or from different heights.
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