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Presentations

Introduction to Wheel Floats

Introduction to Wheel Floats

A brief overview of current Wheel Float types, structure, and operation.

Tilted Mobility Advantage

Tilted Mobility Advantage

Tilting and moving a load from one end can be frustrating. Wheel Floats solves the problems associated with this practice, making it safe and easy.

End Mounting Advantage

End Mounting Advantage

End Mount Wheel Float multiply heavy equipment's capabilities and are easy, fast, and practical to remove and install.

Stability Advantage

Stability Advantage

Capsize accidents are reduced with Wheel Floats. These slides show why.

Suspension Advantage

Suspension Advantage

Wheel Float suspensions reduce shock and mobile resistance compared to regular casters. In most cases mobile resistance is cut in half.

Swivel Advantage

Swivel Advantage

Wheel Floats solve the problem of casters binding up and not swiveling right. The result is safe and compliant turns and maneuvers.

Easy Installation Advantage

Easy Installation Advantage

Wheel Float's fast and easy single person installation helps promote a culture of efficiency and safety.

Reduced Stress Advantage

Reduced Stress Advantage

Wheel Floats neutralize twisting stresses imposed on loads and platforms by regular casters. Eliminating this stress reduces expensive and restrictive redundant designs and opens the door to leaner and less reinforced support design options such as hydraulic rods and elevated legs.

H-Quad Advantage

H-Quad Advantage

H-Quads multiply the benefits of Wheel Floats with layers of articulation and weight distribution. They provide cradle-like transport of heavy & sensitive aerospace tooling, and other high priority loads. From lay-up operations and all the way through autoclave cycles, Wheel Float H-Quads solve multiple mobility problems in one package.

Driving Moment Explained

Driving Moment Explained

Using a common wheeled luggage case, the concept of Low Driving Moments, (a key feature of Wheel Floats), is simply illustrated & explained.

Choosing The Right  Wheels & Rigs

Choosing The Right Wheels & Rigs

An easy guide to the common wheels and rigs, (swivel assemblies), normally used on Wheel Floats. All wheels and rigs used at this time for are 6" x 2" with a nominal assembled height of 7 1/2". Other wheel and bearing options are available, but the units featured here are the ones most commonly specified by current customers. For wheel hardness / durometer information, please refer to:
http://www.substech.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=shore_durometer_hardness_test

Concepts

Concepts

Wheel Float benefits can be extended to a wide range of long troubled mobility applications. The Float Cart and Folding Frame Floats concepts shown here are just two of these applications available to be tailored to customer specific operations.