Southworth Full Line Catalogue
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Making Work Faster, Safer, and Easier with Lifting, Positioning, and Transporting Products

Increase Worker Productivity and Profits with Improved Ergonomics When we began writing about Ergonomics 40 years ago, we were simply attempting to bring a more scientific perspective to a common sense issue. If you consider the capabilities and limitations of the worker in the design of the workplace, the worker will be more productive and that productivity contributes to profit. At the time we had no idea that the topic of ergonomics would become so widely discussed, THE MAN/MACHINE by so many people, in so many professions, with INTERFACE PAYOFF Published 1972 so many agendas. Despite...

Table of Contents The Industry’s Broadest and Most Comprehensive Line of Lifting and Positioning Equipment Lift Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Floor Height Lift Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Work-Lite™ Positioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Portable Lifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Turntables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Lift Tables Improve Productivity There are literally hundreds of uses for lift tables in manufacturing, warehousing and distribution facilities. The addition of these inexpensive devices makes the job faster, safer, and easier. Some typical applications include: machine feeding and offloading; product assembly; inspection/quality control; repair; feeding and offloading conveyors; and bridging different conveyor levels. There are many other applications requiring heavier capacities, extreme load dimensions, and higher vertical travel. Whatever the lift requirements, incorporating...

While Reducing the Risk of Worker Injury Pneumatic Lift Tables Backsaver Lite™ Compact For use anywhere that “shop air” is available. Tiny footprint with 36” lifting height. Spacesaver™ Lifts Tandem Lifts Extended vertical travel. Extra long and extra wide platforms.

Floor Height Lift Tables Some lift tables require interface with carts, floor trucks, pallet jacks and other floor height transporters. If facility circumstances do not allow for pit mounting traditional lift tables, Southworth offers an extensive array of specialty lift tables designed to accommodate any type of transporter. They include tables with: • Roll-On accessibility Floor Height Lift Tables Lowers to floor level for loading with a hand pallet truck. • Roll-Over accessibility • Roll-In accessibility • Roll Up accessibility For details request our Floor Height Lifts catalog....

Special Conditions Work-Lite Positioners Many vertical positioning applications for packaging, assembly, inspection, testing, etc. in factories and warehouses do not involve heavy objects. Great productivity and safety benefits are available by simply positioning lighter workpieces so that workers do not need to bend, stoop or contort to do their jobs. Elevation Station™ Powered adjustable height work platform with mechanical linear actuator. Southworth’s vertical work positioners include: • levating work surfaces allowing ideal E positioning while sitting or standing • and carried...

Portable Lifts Effortlessly Lift and Move In virtually every plant, shop, stockroom, warehouse, or office there is a need to transport materials, equipment and supplies from place to place and with an absolute minimum of lifting. Employees often risk injury by carrying objects and loads from one location to another, or from lifting them from the floor to a workbench or shelf. Lifter/transporters combine two important functions in one machine to do the job faster and safer. Southworth’s variety of transport equipment is designed to meet the widest range of application needs: • Foot pump...

Objects in the Office, Lab, Plant, or Warehouse Dandy™ Lift Lifter/Transporter Handy foot pump lifts loads to just the right height. ­­ Stack-N-Go™ Powered Stackers Compact power driven stackers in straddle or fork over configurations. Powered Dandy Precise powered lifting in a clean, compact unit. Pallet Transporters and Stackers Lift, position and transport with a single unit. See Pallet Handling section for details. 9

Make Standard Lifts Turntables and lifts with integrated turntables make many common production, assembly, and packaging jobs faster, safer, and easier. Southworth offers a variety of turntable options to suit any requirement. They include: • op mounted turntables that sit on top of lift tables or T fixed height platforms. • loor mounted turntables which are permanently fixed F to the floor for dedicated operations. • owered turntables that can rotate heavy loads a full P 360˚ at the touch of a button. • ifts with built-in turntables that are essentially flush to L the table platform....

Even More Productive Custom Platforms & Finishes Southworth offers custom lift table platforms designed to simplify feeding, off-loading, transferring, repositioning or reorienting work to the most comfortable position and angle. There are scores of available configurations. Better Angles Tilt loads up to 89˚. Choose hydraulic or pneumatic. A few of the most common include: • ilt tops that position loads at any angle from 0˚ - 89˚ T • oving tops via rollers, belt, or ball transfer for M conveying or positioning work. • pecial finishes for environmental, security S or aesthetic...

Pallet Handling Load Pallets Quickly and More items are shipped on skids or pallets than all other packaging methods combined. Loading and off-loading these pallets is always a backbreaking, time consuming job. Southworth PalletPal Products speed up and simplify the process, safely increasing the amount of goods that can be shipped or received every day. Two decades ago, Southworth introduced the original PalletPal® Level Loader for manual pallet loading and unloading. Since then, the Southworth pallet handling line has grown to include: • Spring and air actuated units • Roll - On units for...