Safetech Hydraulic Scissor Lift Tables

Lift tables are used to handle loads safely and easily. Repetitive or heavy lifting by hand can be dangerous and slow. At the touch of a button, lift tables can raise or lower smoothly, quietly and efficiently. The risks of back injury to workers can be dramatically reduced. Lift loads of up to 3000Kg with ease! Safetech products are Australian made and can be customised to suit your particular requirements, they are world class quality with unequalled safety and productivity benefits.

Scissor Lift Tables/Scissor Hoist information:

Smartlift Scissor Lift Tables and Scissor Hoists combine an extensive range of capacities, features and options to provide the factory and warehouse with lifting and work positioning. The Safetech scissor lifts/scissor table range is designed for durability and includes a large range of safety features that are exclusive to Safetech scissor lift tables.

SMARTLIFT controls standard on all tables.  Unique to safetech, smartlift controls provide automatic down-indexing, electronic diagnostics and enhanced safety features.

• Manual and powered turntables
• Tilting decks
• Varied deck sizes and surfaces available for scissor lifts

Designed for safety, Smartlift scissor lift tables meet or exceed all industry standards.

Options:

Manual or automatic turntables to rotate the load.
Tilting decks that present the product to the operator.
High cycle capacity.
Safety bars or skirts to protect operators.
Varied deck construction, stainless steel, chequerplate and more.
Special frames to capture the load.
Scissor lift tables can be adapted for use as personnel lifts.
Low height scissor tables for use with hand pallet trucks.
Controls can be automated or interlocked with associated equipment

How do scissor tables work?

Scissor Lift Tables incorporate a scissor mechanism to hold the platform level but allow it to move vertically.

A hydraulic power unit incorporating electric motor and hydraulic pump supply oil to hydraulic cylinder(s) to elevate the platform.

Most Lift Tables utilise a single acting hydraulic system. This means that the Lift Table raises by oil supplied to the cylinder(s) under pressure from the pump and descends under its own weight when the down valve is opened, allowing oil to be bled back to the tank. This is sometimes known as a power up gravity down system. It also means that lift tables are subject to a slow downward drift over time as oil bleeds back to the tank.

Applications

Manual palletising or depalletising.
Loading or unloading of stillages, containers, bins, bags, bricks, tiles.
Commonly used alongside conveyor, feeding hoppers, extruders, process and production equipment.
Goods Hoists.
Scissor lift tables are ideal ergonomic workbenches

Safety

Care must be taken to prevent entrapment of limbs either in the mechanism or under the table's edge. A safety bar is the best protection whilst skirts are also used. The safety bar stops the downward movement of the table upon contact with any obstruction.

Lift tables are often used in conjunction with forklift trucks and they can sometimes damage the table leading to operating failure or injury.

Limitations

Scissor Lifts are active lifting devices and, as such, may be covered by statutory requirements similar to those applying to lifts and cranes. Lift Tables are not ideally suited to highly accurate platform placement as may be required in automated processes because of the drift that can occur with oil bleeding back to the tank. Alternative lifting mechanisms include screw Lift Tables.

Scissor lifts must be appropriately specified for use in washdown, corrosive or flammable environments or high cycle applications.

Best Buying

Scissor lift prices rise rapidly as extra lift is required - because that requires extra sets of scissors, in high cycle applications or where hand pallet truck only access demands a low height profile table.

Stainless steel tables are available but expensive.

Take care with very cheap tables as they may sacrifice safety standards or durability and performance.

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