The HB system:

─     The HB system is a well-organised assortment of crane components whose modular construction enables you to put together individual crane installations.

─     In order to take all the characteristics of the building into account, every HB crane installation is adapted to the specific application and calculated with customer-specific parameters.

The HB profile rails:

─     The sizes HB110, HB150, HB190 and HB240 are available in the overall HB system.

─     Depending on the application case, the HB profile rails are each available as extruded aluminium HB profile rails in the sizes HB150 and HB190 (indicated by A in the product designation) or as one-piece cold-rolled steel HB profile rails in the sizes HB110, HB150, HB190 and HB240 (indicated by S in the product designation).

─     Depending on the application case, the following HB profile rails are available:

─     Thanks to a single-piece rolling process, the steel HB profile rails have increased precision and an optimised travel gap geometry that is comparable to aluminium HB profile rails. This noticeably reduces the rolling resistance during manual movements.

─     The HB profile rails in the size HB240 have crosswise screw fittings installed inside and rolled-in beading. This provides the HB profile rails with an optimal weight for greater stiffness, which has a favourable effect on the loads placed on the supporting structure while ensuring easier travel on the crane girder.

─     The HB profile rails can be connected with each other at any position using clamping plates. The positions of the suspensions do not have to be considered. Extensions of HB profile rails are possible without reconstruction on the existing HB crane installation. The length of the individual profile rail sections can also be freely selected, which can be useful in demanding installation situations.Only with HB240S: there are two different clamping plates available, which are dictated by the distance of the suspension to the profile joint.

─     The joining of the profile rail sections by means of clamping plates (profile joint) requires only a precise saw cut, but no welding or mechanical processing of any kind. This enables extensions or other modifications of existing HB crane installations to be carried out with less effort.

─     The steel HB profile rails are galvanised and laminated at the sides as protection against corrosion. This makes painting them unnecessary.

─     In size HB190A, there are curved sections with a radius of 1500 mm available in the angles 10°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°. The curved sections have straight runout ends which allow connections to other profile rail sections to be established using special, short clamping plates.

The craneway suspension:

─     The HB profile rails can be mounted on the supporting structure with eight different ceiling connections. The supporting structures can be made of, for example, steel, wood or concrete.

─     The ceiling-mounted brackets for the ceiling connection with two load application points (2LP) are available in three widths (type A, B and C).
In addition, there is a ceiling-mounted bracket with four load application points (4LP). These have four flange clamps for distributing the load on the supporting structure over four points rather than two. This allows more demanding on-site conditions in the building (e.g. building statics) to be taken into account. The ceiling-mounted bracket 4LP is likewise offered in three widths (type A, B and C).

─     Depending on the forces introduced, the craneway suspension consists of threaded rods and connection elements in size M16 or M20, with respectively matching profile links and bearing elements for the ceiling-mounted brackets and HB profile rails. The ceiling-mounted brackets are thus available in the versions 2LP/M16, 2LP/M20 and 4LP/M20.

─     The HB profile rails are freely suspended from the supporting structure. This enables the entire HB crane installation to absorb the dynamic loads so they are not fully transferred to the supporting structure.

─     The HB profile rails are also connected with the supporting structure by flexible and maintenance-free profile connections with rubber mountings.

─     The profile connections can be installed in the HB profile rails from above. This reduces the effort required in assembly, especially in the case of expansions and reconstruction.

─     Because the HB profile rails can have variable heights due to the individually shortened or lengthened suspensions, they can be adapted to fit the supporting structure.

Electrical system of the HB crane installation:

─     The entire electrical system has a modular construction to enable easy expansion of the HB crane installation.

─     The electric connections of the HBF drives, the chain hoist and all other components are of a plug-in type for fast assembly, replacement and reconstruction of the HB crane installation.

─     For conductor systems: in contrast to the festoon cable system there is no cable marshalling point, which means the crane stop clearance and the trolley stop clearance at the ends of the crane track are very limited. This also allows transport of loads in the operating range boundaries of the HB crane installation.