05-11-2014, 03:59 PM
Abstracts: Forklift is the basic material handling device used in warehouses. In industry, it is not possible to have products of same sizes to handle always. So, it is necessary to change the spread of the forks accordingly the size of goods. After deciding to work on forklift for our project, we visited the website of VOLTAS FORKLIFT and took their product as a reference for our project. We saw there that the spread varying operation is done by simply pick and place method on a uniformly slotted carriage. We also saw that it is very difficult to vary the size of fork in forklift because of fork weight. To minimize this effort of spreading the fork, we thought of use of some mechanical mean. After brainstorming, we got two alternates for it one of which is the use of hydraulic piston cylinder arrangement and the second one is the use of compound lead screw for easier movement of forks from these two, we selected the second alternate for our project work and after a hard work we have justified it as per our knowledge.