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Hi I'm Karl Scholz President of Pacline Corporation
and we're here today in Paclines war room
and we gotta talk about the most
common method used for hanging
our systems from the ceiling of a building.
and we're gonna talk about all the different components
how they go together and we're going to look at least two different arrangements
for installing using standard
off-the-shelf water pipe
So all the things that we're going to talk about today can be found in Pacline's
safety and installation manual. When you buy a system from us you get this manual
its can't miss it is bright orange so that it can be misplaced very easily
it says safety and installation manual on the side
within it, we have written instructions first thing you have to read this manual
before you install the system
there are things that need to be done
their safety precautions and
safety features of our hanging methods which have to be followed closely,
or something bad can happen.
Within this manual there is an engineering section.
Up front it shows how to design a system.
If you bought something from us already and we
were the ones who designed it this is already all been taken into account
and behind the engineering pages there are
the actual engineered drawings so for every component that's made
there's a drawing. In here as well we have
a variety of different installation attachments
for example here's a
sleeve which is used
along with the pipe that you can buy from any
plumbing store in the area and
construct a system used to hang
our equipment from the ceiling of a building.
We've chosen to come in to Paclines war room
because it just so happens that
this room is constructed with open web steel joists.
This is the most common
ceiling structure
that we find and so we've manufactured many components
that will allow you to connect directly to it. so you can see here
that and open web steel joist which is constructed
of angle iron and
round bar but it leaves the web
open which is where gets its name from open web steel joist.
So if you have
an opportunity to connect to an open web steel joist, this is your
easiest and best method for attaching
the upper portion of the hanging system.
We manufacture spade bolts, threaded spade bolts
which have a bolt hole on the bottom
we have a pair of
trust plates and we will sandwich
the open web steel joist within this.
So we'll try to get this through like this. We'll put
the top part on and then
attach the bolts while sandwiching
so we're sandwiching the open web steel joist
I'd like to say right now that
every bit of hardware that is used in thsee system should be
sized properly and they should
have locking nuts or lock washers to secure them you don't want this to
vibrate loose over the years so see all these
nuts have lock washers behind.
So from here we can now attach a variety of different
attachments to the bottom of it
to carry the system. If we have a quick look at the
various components laid out on the floor in front of us here
you'll get the idea of how this will
in the end , end up. In the trusses we have
a couple of different components were going to use,
either one of these components could have been substituted with the threaded
rod that we just showed you.
On the lower end
we have the track hanger
th-300 tracking or clamp which comes with this portion
and a sleeve. This portion has
an additional bit called
sway brace attachment, with its own sleeve
and these pipes that are used to support the system
once again are standard three quarter inch ID water pipes
you get them in any hardware store they come in galvanized
or black
and you can cut the length
to suite. The attachments themselves
have a leveling
set screw. These do not support the load
I warn you . You CANNOT support the load using these. These are
simply used to allow you to adjust the
the length of the pipe within the sleeve and once
it is set you tighten these and drill a hole through the side
and apply a through bolt.
Once again in this case with a Nile lock locking nut
now will go through and support the load you do NOT support any load with these.
So we're gonna go ahead and attached to this open web joist
using a beam clamp this time.
Now, you know we have open web steel joist here but if we did not have open
web steel joists and we just had
the bottom *** or some type of beam,
we could use Paclines PC 300 beam clamp,
to show how to attach beam clamp
to the beam itself, so I've
disassembled this unit and
will show you how to do that, put this cross here
as you can see
there's a lot of extra threaded rod
on this beam clamp
and that will allow me
to attach this beam clamp to a number of different widths of beam.
When tightened, you can see the hook bolt is over this side
and this part of the beam clamp is over this side
to form a secure holding point.
So we're going to install first, the track hanging clamps
that will support the track which is somewhere around this elevation
we'll start with that,
until we can get the track up
and then add sway braces afterwards
to secure the system so that it can't move sideways.
So we start by taking the standard pipe we cut it approximately to length
we don't need to have it exact at this point
because the set screw and sleeve allow some movement up and down
to achieve the final exact track elevation that you want.
So I take the pipe,
slide it into the sleeve,
and I would, tighten that set screw.
Then I would take the other end of the track clamp
I would be
right now we have a track clamp with sway brace attachment already on it.
We can take this portion off an just hang the track
but we would do this slide it over the end
just roughly position the track, tighten the set screws
and then finally, level the system.
So now we would put
we would lay these tracking arc clamps out, put a section of track width in
and then check the elevation, move it up or down as required.
So now that we have a a long length of track supported
we could go ahead and add sway braces.
Sway braces, can be used or generally are used every second track hanger .
We like to position these track hangers on no greater than
eight or nine foot centers, typically they're six to seven feet
but that's totally load dependent.
So Pacline Engineers will tell you
how that should be supported,
You know it's better to have more support than less support
every second tracking or clamp, th-300 tracking or clamp
could have a sway brace on it
so you can see here that this sway brace
will be set up,
such that we have another piece of pipe
coming off to the side
thereby resisting the sideway forces
on this track.
So I'm gonna go ahead.. you can see here
that we don't have anything to attach to
so we're gonna add a piece of header steel to that
we're going to run a piece of header steel across
now from one open web steel joist to the other.
I have cut to length here
a piece of one and a half inch ID water pipe
we use these quite often for the header steel
when we're doing this style of system
this pipe style hanging system. so I'm gonna feed this over top of the trusters.
Alright so we have cut a piece of header steel to fit between
the open web steel joists and can
you can see here how it's it is going to be sitting on this ***
in the open web steel joist
I have slid one of my
header steel clamps over top and
you can see how it will now when I tighten this down
it will firmly hold
the header steel on top of the *** up this open web steel joist
we're gonna go ahead and tighten that up.
Important once again, you only use lock nuts,
I lock.
Okay so now we have secured the header steel pipe
to the open web steel joist or whatever the beam is,
and now we've provided a convenient
place to attacked our sway brace.
We have another attachment that goes over
top of the pipe
we're gonna go ahead and attach that like that
and you can see that up take this around
this sleeve will fit in between
and now we have almost completed our
installation setup.
So we have now assembled the complete hanger
with a sway brace attached
now we're gonna go ahead and we're going secure the system. we're gonna
make sure that these are perfectly
straight up and down, the track hanger portion of it
and then we will
make sure all the set screws are tightened
and then we're going to drill holes through.
So for the purpose of this I am not going to drill holes
but just to show you
we have drilled a couple holes here just to show that
this will be put through, the screw bolt will secure the load
will hold the load and will carry all the weight and once again we're using
locking nuts on everything here
everyone of these connections has a lock nut on it
and that basically
explains a how we use pipe
to hang our systems so that's the
the pipe method of securing the systems
there's also the possibility of using angle iron
which some people like to use
Pacline manufactures a number of different attachments
for using that method
and in our engineering manual, you'll be able to see
both methods in one drawing
we've done the pipe method but over on the other side to the drawing is the
angle iron method
of securing the system.
Either one can be used , this one just happens to be the more common
and quite honestly it looks best
It's the better looking installation.
So, once again we would ask that
you thoroughly review the
installation manual that comes with your system
or if necessary you can get it at our website which is www.pacline.com
review that first,
ask Paclines Engineers for any assistance
that you might need don't do
anything that you're uncomfortable with
get advice, and
when you look through this drawing
manual you'll see that there are a number of different attachments that you
can purchase from us
so your installation may not be exactly as you thought
so you need to make a change
by all means you can select items out of that book at a price on it and delivery
we generally manufacture everything to stock inventory
so that you can pull from that so we're just a day and a courier charge away
from getting you the parts you might need
or in the event something unforeseen comes up
at this point, we would go around and double-checked the whole system
make sure that it's adequately braced throughout
then when you start up the system, you may find that
there's a vibration in one area to another causing an unsightly
movement of the conveyor maybe it's not a problem
or you don't like the the way it appears
then you could add these sway braces and any number of areas,
you can also use one of our wall brace
attachments if you're up so close to the
wall that it didn't make sense to
use the header pipe or connect to another trust
you could use lag bolts and connect it to a concrete wall that's
adjacent to the conveyor system
any way all those things are explained in the installation
manual and so take the time to read it
and we wish you luck on your installation.
Thank you.