“Parrot Beak” Type Grippers for Drums
| Gripper for One Drum | |
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| Length (mm) | 1000 |
| Width (mm) | 585 |
| Height (mm) | 740 |
| Weight (kg) | 95 |
| Gripper for Two Drum | |
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| Length (mm) | 1000 |
| Width (mm) | 960 |
| Height (mm) | 740 |
| Weight (kg) | 139 |
| Distance between grippers (“beaks”) (mm) | 165 |
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Drum grippers are used for safe and quick transportation, loading/unloading both for plastic and steal OT and TH drums. It can be easily put on automatic loader. Robust construction for long-life use.
“Parrot beak” type grippers have a number of advantages comparing to other handling devices for drums:
- Good field of vision for the driver
- Standard easy replaceable galvanized head
- Possibility to work with 1-4 containers at a time
- Rubber elements as standard protection measure of drums against damage
- Framed gripping mechanism
- Strong gripping force
- Protection from slipping
Gripping scheme with “parrot beak” mechanism
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Notes to the pictures:
1) – Bring bottom part of the gripper under the top seam of the drum. Raise up the whole gripping mechnaism.
2) – Install bottom part of the gripper over the drum’s seam. Put down the whole gripper.
3) – After one of above mentioned procedures, raise up the whole gripper that will lead to automatic grip of the drum.
Different variants of automatic loaders completion with “parrot beak” type grippers
If we compare different type of grippers it becomes obvious that “parrot beak” type is more effective than side grippers due following reasons:
1. “Parrot beak” type gripper does not damage the drum if it has wrong adjustment comparing to side
2. When using “Parrot beak” type gripper it is not necessary to leave some additional space around drum while in case with side grippers it is required.
3. Stability of the grip with “Parrot beak” type mechanism is higher that leads to less dependence on surface the automatic loader is moving on during drums transportation.
