Standard Photographic
Highdown Road
Sydenham Industrial Estate
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire

C.S. No: S430-92

Type: SAL0.5-1500-1200/850

The Materials Handling Engineers and Buyers within the company, were unable to source a supplier of lift and tilt equipment for their application. Shipments of photographic containers were received from abroad packed in Tri-Wall cardboard crates mounted on three bearer wooden pallets.

They employed a full-time operative to scoop the containers from the crate and feed them into a high level vibrating hopper, that orientated the containers into an upright position, in order to fill them with reels of film. This situation was obviously very time consuming and labour intensive.

A Saxon Sales and Project Design Engineer visited the factory and made detailed observations in order to provide a specification and quotation for a specially engineered bespoke solution.

An order was subsequently placed, based on the use of a Standard Saxon Vertical Mast Pallet Lift adapted with a spigot mounting in order that the pallet could be rotated through 135° about the swivel axis in either direction. Special electro-mechanical interlocked clamps were developed to secure the crate to the pallet lift base, to provide a safe, stable, self-supporting installation.

It can be seen from the photographic that a single operative can now tip a whole pallet of photograph containers into the hopper in one single operation.