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News Release from: The Reel and Shaft Handling Company | Subject: Reel turners
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2008
Mount reel turners on forklift trucks
Four reel turning systems fit onto virtually any make of forklift truck truck carriage while a fifth model fits any set of fork lift truck forks an can be independently powered.
Handling and unwinding heavy reels can be a safety problem in packaging and manufacturing assembly areas Following an injury caused by a reel dropping when an operator tried to turn it, a leading UK packaging extrusion company commissioned The Reel and Shaft Handling Company, (RSHCo), to design and manufacture five reel turners, for handling up to 300kg reels
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The RSHCo first made a prototype by taking their existing hoist based 'Reel Turner Mk2' system, designed for handling reels up to 125kg, and fitted it to a prototype fork pocket support.
RSHCo tried out the device at the customer's plant to prove the system would work.
To answer an already growing number of export enquiries, RSHCo then designed four of the systems to fit onto virtually any make of stacker truck carriage whilst being capable of integrating into the stacker truck.
A fifth was designed to fit onto any set of forks in seconds and be independently powered if required.
Consequently, RSHCo had produced a highly flexible range of Reel Turner designs all essentially doing the same job.
The systems offered options of being fixed or temporarily mounted and being electrically, hydraulically, pneumatically or manually powered.
Managing director of RSHCo, Stephen Weston, explained: "The key aspect of the design was to make the 'Reel Turner Mk3' retrofittable onto customers' own vehicles.
In this way, an existing asset can be used to allow the safe handling of heavy reels, at minimal cost.".
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