for handling workpieces, e.g. ingots, which require to be supported temporarily within, or withdrawn from, a treatment chamber, e.g. tong cranes, soaking-pit cranes, stripper cranes (for manipulating ingots during forging B66C17/18; grippers for handling or stripping castings or ingots during manufacture B22D29/00)

Full Title

Overhead travelling cranes comprising one or more substantially horizontal girders the ends of which are directly supported by wheels or rollers running on tracks carried by spaced supports > specially adapted for particular purposes, e.g. in foundries, forges; combined with auxiliary apparatus serving particular purposes (B66C17/04 takes precedence) > for handling workpieces, e.g. ingots, which require to be supported temporarily within, or withdrawn from, a treatment chamber, e.g. tong cranes, soaking-pit cranes, stripper cranes (for manipulating ingots during forging B66C17/18; grippers for handling or stripping castings or ingots during manufacture B22D29/00)

Child Classifications

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• B66C 17/14 Tong cranes with means for moving article-pushers relative to the tongs
• B66C 17/16 Tong cranes with means for turning the tongs about a vertical axis