In the global business of material handling, lift trucks play a major part for transporting industrial goods. Primarily innovated as industrial vehicles in the 1930s in the United States, lift trucks gained recognition following World War II in the 1940s. Becoming a reliable and efficient means to material handling solutions, the need and practicality of these machinery spread internationally. First founded as Toyo Carrier Manufacturing Company Limited, in the year 1949, the company was later renamed Toyo Umpanki Co. prior to becoming recognized as the TCM Corporation. Founded by Mr. N. Niwa manufactured Japan's first forklift. Through the years, TCM forklifts have become an international leader in forklift manufacturing and have built a solid reputation in the business. TCM began constructing lift truck manufacturing sites outside of Japan in the 1980s and is now engaged in lift truck manufacturer at three foreign factories in the United States, Europe and China. TCM proudly makes numerous models of industrial lift trucks with more than 50 years of accumulated expertise and technology, making their products used and recognized all over the world. Characterized by energetic staff and strong initiatives, TCM continues to look toward the future and aims to become a world-class leading company.
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Forklift Parts
Alternators
An alternator is actually a machine that changes mechanical energy into electric energy. It does this in the form of an electric current. In principal, an AC electric generator could also be called an alternator. The word normally refers to a small, rotating machine driven by automotive and different internal combustion engines. Alternators that are placed in power stations and...
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Brakes
A brake wherein the friction is provided by a set of brake pads or brake shoes that press against a rotating drum shaped unit referred to as a brake drum. There are several particular differences between brake drum types. A "brake drum" is usually the explanation provided if shoes press on the inner exterior of the drum. A "clasp brake"...
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Carriage Rollers
Carriage rollers are specifically designed bearings that are used on lift masts so as to help them work in tough environmental conditions. Lift masts are normally subjected to oscillations, shocks, high dynamic and vibrations and static loads. This equipment is regularly exposed to environmental influences such as cold, heat, dust, contamination, aggressive ambient air and moisture. Thus, the lift masts'...
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Carriages and Carriage Parts
Rated by the tine carriage lifting capacity, there are actually four sizings of hook type fork carriages. The hook type blade carriages have been standardized.
Class I carriages are rated for cargo up to 2000 lbs. The carriage bar spacing utilized for Class I is 13 inches. Class II carriages are rated for loads up to 5,550 lbs. Their carriage...
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Control Valves
Automatic control systems were primarily established over two thousand years ago. The ancient water clock of Ktesibios in Alexandria Egypt dating to the third century B.C. is believed to be the very first feedback control equipment on record. This particular clock kept time by regulating the water level within a vessel and the water flow from the vessel. A common...
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Controllers
Forklifts are accessible in several load capacities and different models. Most forklifts in a regular warehouse situation have load capacities between 1-5 tons. Larger scale models are utilized for heavier loads, such as loading shipping containers, may have up to fifty tons lift capacity.
The operator can make use of a control to raise and lower the blades, that can...
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Differentials
A mechanical machine which can transmit rotation and torque through three shafts is called a differential. Sometimes but not all the time the differential will employ gears and would work in two ways: in cars, it provides two outputs and receives one input. The other way a differential works is to put together two inputs to produce an output that...
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Drive Axles
The piece of equipment that is elastically fastened to the frame of the vehicle with a lift mast is known as the lift truck drive axle. The lift mast affixes to the drive axle and could be inclined, by at least one tilting cylinder, round the drive axle's axial centerline. Forward bearing parts together with rear bearing parts of a...
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