A frame gantry crane design and specifications

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Dongqi Hoist and Crane manufactures A frame gantry crane, also known as A-frame cranes, KDCs, and light duty gantry cranes, suitable for a range of applications.

Typically these are small gantry cranes for lighter duty lifting requirements, but thanks to our bespoke design capabilities, we can also offer more robust A-frame cranes for various uses.

Spanning up to eight meters and standing at up to six meters in height, our A-frame gantry cranes can be adapted for indoor or outside use. The main beam has a horizontal member fabricated from rolled steel fitted with end plates and cheek plates suitable for connection to the rolled hollow steel leg sections.

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A Frame Gantry Crane Design

A Frame Gantry Crane design mainly consists of a frame gantry steel structure, trolley, crane traveling mechanism, electrical system and other major components.

A Frame Gantry Crane basic design descriptions:

A Frame Gantry hoist steel structure mainly consists of the main beam, supporting legs (when large span using of one rigid leg and one flexible leg), end beams, saddle (no saddle when no cantilever), trolley traveling track, bottom cross beam and other components. Main beam, end beam, legs, saddle and bottom cross beam connected together by high strength bolts.
The trolley is mainly composed of one or two sets (main and auxiliary lifting) hoisting mechanism, trolley traveling mechanism and trolley frame.
A frame crane traveling mechanism adopts respectively drive form. It consists of motor, brake, reducer, wheel sets, drive shafts, couplings and other components.

A frame gantry crane accessories

All of our A frame gantry crane receive an undercoat of zinc phosphate primer and are then finished with an additional outer paint coating of your choosing. Various options and accessories are available to you to ensure you end up with an A-frame crane suited to the task in hand:

Manual or powered hoist travelling and hoisting motions
Cast iron or poly tyred castors
Castor locks
Jacks
Electrical isolators
Air feeds
Festoons
Galvanizing (e.g. for outdoor use)

All our fixed and mobile A frame gantry crane are made to order, letting us fully customize the solution around your needs.

Roller type mobile a frame crane

Poratable A frame gantry is also know as, movable gantry crane, rolling gantry crane, which is small light duty gantry crane for light material handling with the capacity below 7.5 ton. The portable A frame gantry is your portable material handling solution with high cost-effectiveness. The Gantry portable hoist crane is produced by Chinese well-known portable A frame gantry manufacturer, Dongqi Hoist and Crane.

Main Parameters of Gantry portable hoist crane：

Rolller A frame gantry crane lifting capacity: 0.5~ 5 ton
Rolller A frame gantry crane span length: 3~6m
Rolller A frame gantry crane lifting height: 2.5~6m
Custom designed portable A frame gantry is available.

Rail type small A frame gantry crane

This type small A fram crane is a small gantry crane moving on rails.

Main Parameters of Gantry portable hoist crane：

Rail A frame gantry crane lifting capacity: 0.5~10 ton
RailA frame gantry crane span length: 3~10m
RailA frame gantry crane lifting height: 2.5~10m
Custom designed portable A frame gantry is available.

A-Frame crane quotes within one working day

Dongqi will now respond within one working day to all enquiries received through its Online A-Frame Gantry Crane Tool.

The A-Frame Gantry cranes can be made to order to suit each customer’s specific lifting application, and any enquiries into potential orders will receive a detailed, tailored quote within one day, says the company.

The range of cranes offer a fixed or mobile design, a span of up to 8m, height of up to 6m, a maximum safe working load of 15t.

Also called light-duty gantry cranes, the A-Frame cranes can be supplied with a range of options and accessories including manual or powered hoist travelling and hoisting motions; jacks; electrical isolators; end stops; air feeds; galvanizing; and cast iron or poly-tyred castors.

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Various types of gantry cranes

How to customize a gantry crane

We are a crane manufacturer located in China, providing crane customization services to global crane customers. If you want to customize a gantry crane, you can leave a message on the website or Email: sales010@cranesdq.com, tell us the following information, and our sales manager will contact you:

Lifting capacity (ton): __ ?( The rated capacity)
Lifting height (m):__ ? (Height from hook center to the floor)
Span (m): __ ? (Distance between rail center)
Lifting speed (m/min): __ ? ( Single, Dual, Variable)
Traveling distance (m): __ ? (The length of the rail)
Work duty: __ ? (How many hours a day? How many times an hour?)
What material to be lifted: __ ?
Industrial voltage: __ ? ( like :380V, 50Hz, 3ph )