Lifting Beams for Cranes: Various Designs and Applications

Lifting beams or crane lifting beams are a type of the most frequently used below-the-hook devices for overhead travelling cranes to balance and support the loads. What is a lifting beam? A lifting beam is an crane attachments which is consisted of a beam and a single attachment point or lug at the centre-top side where the lifting beam connects with the lifting equipment such as the overhead travelling crane, gantry crane and hoist, etc.

Lifting Beam Advantages

With a single crane-attachment point , the lifting beams can be attached directly to a overhead crane or hoist hook which enables the lifting beam suitable for low headroom application. Low headroom lifting beam design is ideal for shorter and lighter span lifts with little requirements for headroom space.

Lifting beams are available with fixed lifting beam designs and adjustable lifting beam designs. With adjustable lifting beam design, the adjustable lifting point of the lifting beam can be shifted along the beam to match a specific load and also enable the handling of the unbalanced loads and controlling of concave crushing forces possible. The adjustable feature of the lifting beams makes it applicable in different applications to handle loads of various types and kinds. With heavy-duty capabilities and rigid design, the adjustable lifting beam are very suitable for handling loads of high flexibility.

With 3 point lifting beam design or even a 4 point lifting beam design, they are also ideal for loads that are too weak and/or flexible to be handled with regular lifting slings or clamps.

Lifting Beam Disadvantages

The bending forces transformed from the vertical lifting force exerted by the loads requires the design of the lifting beam to be extremely rigid and requires more material, which makes lifting beams heavier and more expensive than their spreader beam counterparts.

For lifting operation with a wide span, the lifting beam is required to be extremely heavy and rigid even if for the lightweight load. And also a tag line is required to keep the load level and to avoid spinning or tipping.

Applications of lifting beams

Lifting beam are available with various beam designs and are widely applied in different industrial sectors to material handling. With fixed or pivoting J hooks, the lifting beams can be used for handling paper, cloth or plastic film rolls, etc. With rotating configuration, the lifting beam can be rotated under loading to help the positioning of the load. With lifting magnets attached to the bottom lugs, lifting beams are widely used for handling a variety of metallic loads, such as, steel coil, plate, slab, billet, pipe, and steel bars, etc.

20 ton standard lifting beam

4 point lifting beams

Lifting beams with hooks for coiling handling

Lifting beam with J hook for ladle handling

Lifting beam with J hooks for paper roll handling

Lifting beam with magnetic for steel handling

Types of lifting beams

Lifting Beams are very versatile which can be configured in many different sizes, capacities and types. Besides standared lifting beams, we can offer you tailored lifting beam design to your specifications. The main types of designs of lifting beams are for your reference. Contact us if customized lifting beam designs are required.

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Short Span Lifting Beam with Plate Style Lifting Beam Design

Short Span Lifting Beam with Plate Style Lifting Beam Design for Sale: The lifting beam is widely used for short span operation and lowhead room applications. The short span lifting beams are supplied with a pair of shackles and one standard spread.

Standard Duty Lifting Beam with Channel Lifting Beam Design

Standard Duty Lifting Beam with Channel Lifting Beam Design for Sale:The lifting beam can be adoppted in headroom application with a pair of swivel hooks and three standard spreads and the lifting beams of 3' and 4' have two standard spreads.

Standard Duty Lifting Beam with I-Beam Design

Standard Duty Lifting Beam with I-Beam Design for Sale :The lifting beams are supplied with a pair of shackles & swivel hooks with three standard spreads. The lifting beam are applicable for low headroom application.

Standard Duty Lifting Beam with I-Beam Design w Pin Bail

Standard Duty Lifting Beam with I-Beam Design w Pin Bail for Sale:The are supplied with a pair of shackles and three standard spreadswhich are applicable for low headroom application. Standard I-Beam design with pin bail & integrated beam stands.

Basket Sling Lifting Beam

Basket Sling Lifting Beam for Sale:The lifting beam is consited with slings in a basket hitch and two sets of fixed hooks and the lifting beam of 3' and 4' beams is with one set of hooks. The lifting winch are applicable for low headroom application.

Dual Crane Lifting Beam for Sale

Dual Crane Lifting Beam for Sale:The lifting beam is with low headroom design and a swivel hook which is used with two lifting cranes, with lifting capacities up to 30 tons and over.

Universal Lifting/Spreader Beam for Sale

Universal Lifting/Spreader Beam for Sale:The universal beam is with low headroom design and adjustable beam design with high stability which can be used for various loads handling even if for an off center load handling.

Adjustable Lifting Beam

Adjustable Lifting Beam for Sale:The lifting beam is with low headroom design and with multiple spreads which can be adjusted to accommodate various load sizes. The adjustable lifting beam are are widley used for easy off center loads lifting.

Adjustable Bail Lifting Beam for Sale

Adjustable Bail Lifting Beam for Sale:The lifting beam are applicable to off center loads handling and low headroom operation. .The lifting beam usually designed with one outside spread and two swivel hooks and tailored design with additional spreads & swivel hooks are available.

Load Leveling Beam for Sale

Load Leveling Beam for Sale:The lifting beams are applicable for off center loads lifting by adjusting the bail with the standard chain wheel prior to the lift, and with the span of the beail, the lifting beam has unlimited adjustment.

Three Point Lifting Beam for Sale

Three Point Lifting Beam for Sale:The lifting beam are with low headroom design and with 3 lifting point beam design which are used for objects handling with multiple lift points. The three point lifting beams are available with tailored lifting beam design.

Four Point Lifting Beam for Sale

Four Point Lifting Beam for Sale:The lifting beam are with low headroom design and with 4 lifting point beam design which are used for objects handling with multiple lift points. The four point lifting beams are available with tailored lifting beam design.

Four Point Sack Lifter Beam for Sale

Four Point Sack Lifter Beam for Sale:The lifting beam is designed for handling bulk container sacks with smooth edge to minimize wear on lifting straps. Low headroom design enable the lifting beam meet the metric rating requirements.

Four Point Adjustable Beam for Sale

Four Point Adjustable Beam for Sale:This standard four point lifting beam is designed with adjustable spread style of lifting beam and four swiver hooks which are widely applied for loads handling which requires multiple lift points and with high flexibility.

Dual Crane Rotating Beam for Sale

Dual Crane Rotating Beam for Sale:The lifting beam is utilized with two hoists and can rotate the load parallel.Tailored dual crane rotating beam designs are available to fit your specific lifting requirements.

Customized lifting beam design for your lifting applications

Lifting beams are available with different capacities and designs. To select the right type of lifting beam for your application is vital and critical for many factors should be take into count such as the overall capacity of the lifting beam and capacity of each individual lifting point which should be calculated and the design of multiple and adjustable lifting points, at fixed or variable increments, for different sized loads, and the nature of loads, rigid or flexible, etc.

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