BRONX PROCESS ENGINEERING LTD.
Lye
Stour Bridge
West Midlands
DY9 8DS

C.S. No. S420—92

Type: SL15-750-1800-1500

BRONX secured a large order in 1987, from Tubisud Italia Sp.A, to design, build and install, a paint process line to coat sheet steel.

Late in the contract, it was decided to handle the 15,000kg coils of steel with a mobile coil car, rather than the proposed static type. With only 10 weeks to commissioning, SAXON were asked to advise.

The specification called for loading by over-head crane, 750mm of lift travel, a special platform top incorporating soft faced coil location rollers, 25m of linear traverse with no trailing cables & the unit to be self contained and electrically interfaced to the system.

A SAXON compact heavy duty powered mobile scissor lift coil car.

The 15,000kg capacity lift was mounted on a robust base frame, provided with four flanged rail wheels, two free and two motor driven, reversible and braked, via a reduction gear box, electrical controls, limit switches positional interlocks etc, were incorporated within the chassis and power fed from bus-bars sited in a continuous under floor duct.

The scissor mechanism was jig bored and welded, fitted with glacier DU precision bearings, special bottom stops to accept impact crane loading, zinc plated machined components and all parts easily replaced.

Equi-opposed four ram design, was utilised for smooth operation.