Down to the basement!

Where you don’t want for your favourite football club to be is often necessary for goods. Especially if you want to make maximum use of the available space, it makes sense to provide convenient access.

The processes at our current customer also needed to be changed and carried out more efficiently. More specifically, this involved optimising the delivery of goods to the kitchen of a senior citizens' centre. Until now, the goods always had to be transported via the other side of the building, through the narrow basement corridors to the kitchen. This should now be improved by additional lifting equipment.

The problem solved in this case is part of our standard repertoire. Goods have to be transported from one level to another as easily, efficiently and safely, at a reasonable price of course.
In this project a relatively small height difference of less than 2 metres had to be bridged, which could easily be achieved by means of a single scissor lift table with a corresponding platform length.

In order not to lose any valuable space inside the building, the system is located outside, so our standard package for outdoor use provided the logical solution in this case. This means hot-dip galvanising for the platform, base frame and the landing doors and, of course, an electrical system with protection class IP65. After all, our customer should enjoy the scissor lift table for years to come and not be annoyed by chipped paint and the first rust spots in a few years.

The installation of the power unit required a special approach. Although the power unit was installed in an area protected from rain, the possibility that a few centimetres of standing water would remain on the ground after very heavy rainfall could not be ruled out. For this reason, we fastened the unit to the wall with a wall-mount bracket so that it floats about 10-20 centimetres above the ground.
A sheet metal cover was also provided for the unit and the control system to reduce noise emissions.

There are two main dangers associated with scissor lift tables installed this way:

1. Someone falls from the top landing while the platform is at the bottom.
2. Someone gets underneath the scissor lift table unnoticed while it is at the top and then the platform is lowered.

To eliminate these two dangers, we use electromechanically secured access doors at the landings. These doors can only be opened when the lift table is in the respective lifting position. In addition, unsafe system statuses, such as manual unlocking, cause the lift table to stop immediately.

The doors must be designed with closed panels to prevent new dangers emanating from them. For example, to mitigate the risk of someone hurting their fingers or feet while the load or the lift table travels past them.
We use strip-galvanised sheet metal for this purpose that is completely closed as a standard. However, this creates an almost overpowering structural design. In this case perforated plate was used to soften the appearance. Naturally with a mesh size that reliably prevents fingers from fitting through the openings.