The hydraulic lift is a device used to lift or lower passengers and loads from floor to floor in multi-storey buildings.
DIRECT ACTION HYDRAULIC LIFTING WORK:
When the fluid under pressure is forced into the cylinder, the pusher pushes up. The platform carries loads or passengers and moves between the guides. At the required height, it can be made to stay on the level with each floor so that the good or passengers can be transferred.
In the direct acting hydraulic lift, the stroke of the piston is equal to the lifting of the cage.
One of the most important equipment used in transporting goods and people is the hydraulic lift. By the way of hydraulics, such elevators are able to carry heavy loads with great ease, and lift vertically. Hydraulic lifts come in the form of passenger lifts, service elevators (to transport goods to higher floors, etc.)
For over 150 years since the birth of the modern elevator, elevators have formed an important part of our lives. While lifts are widely used to transport men to the higher floors, and in multi-storey buildings around the world, there is also a completely different use for lifts, in regard to work and industries.
In these places, lifts are increasingly forced to lift heavy loads in the form of machinery and equipment at different levels. Due to the heavy weight to be lifted, the standard roped elevator design is not very efficient for the purpose.
A hydraulic lift usually uses hydraulic cylinders to raise or lower work platforms or other lifting devices. Hydraulic lifts are ideally used for support as well as lifting and moving heavy objects to very heavy, and large; Providing at the same time a secure environment that is ergonomically useful. While hydraulic lifts are mainly used for loading, and positioning of work objects, sometimes this can also be used for transporting personnel, if necessary. The type of hydraulic lift that will be used in a particular situation will depend on the style of the platform, and its style of assembly, as well as the material that it uses. Types of commonly used hydraulic lifts are table lifts, dock lifts, fork lifts, pallet lifts, etc.
Diagram is given below: