WHAT IS HYDRAULIC LIFT?

Hydraulic lift is a device used for carrying

passenger or goods from one floor to another
in multi- storied building to raise heavy
objects.
HISTORY OF HYDRAULIC LIFT
 The need for vertical transport is as old as civilization.
Over the centuries, mankind has employed ingenious
forms of lifting.
 The first elevator designed for a passenger was built in 1743
for King Louis XV at his palace in France. The one-person
contraption went up only one floor, from the first to the
second. Known as the "Flying Chair," it was on the outside
of the building, and was entered by the king via his balcony.
 By 1850 steam and hydraulic elevators had been introduced,
but it was in 1852 that the landmark event in elevator history
occurred: the invention of the world's first safety elevator by
Elisha Graves Otis. The first passenger elevator was installed
by Otis in New York in 1857.
PRINCIPLE OF
HYDRAULIC LIFT

 Pascal's law is a principle in fluid mechanics

that states that pressure exerted
anywhere in a confined incompressible fluid is
transmitted equally in all directions throughout the
fluid such that the pressure variations (initial
differences) remain the same.
 This law is applied to lifts.
TYPES OF HYDRAULIC LIFTS

TYPES

DIRECT ACTING SUSPENDED

HYDRAULIC HYDRAULIC
LIFT LIFT
DIRECT ACTING HYDRAULIC LIFT

 When fluid under pressure is forced into the cylinder,

the ram gets a push upward. The platform carries loads
or passengers and moves between the guides. At
required height, it can be made to stay in level with
each floor so that the good or passengers can be
transferred.
 In direct acting hydraulic lift, stroke of the ram is
equal to the lift of the cage.
 CONSTRUCTION DETAILS
Components of direct acting
hydraulic lift:
 Fixed cylinder: It is fixed with the wall
of the floor, where the sliding ram
reciprocate when we apply the pressure.
 Cage: It is fitted on the top of the
sliding ram where the load is placed
(i.e. lifted load).
 Sliding ram: It is fitted in the fixed
cylinder which is reciprocate (upward or
downward direction) when we applied
the pressure (i.e. reaches the floor wise.)
SUSPENDED HYDRAULIC LIFT
WORKING :-
 When fluid under pressure is forced into the cylinder, the ram
gets reciprocate to the movable pulleys. With the help of
arrangement of hydraulic jigger; pulley can rotates; with the
help of wire rope the cage is maintain there pressure force
with there floor. At required height, it can be made to stay in
level with each floor so that the good or passengers can be
transferred.
 Working period of the lift is ratio of the height of lift to the
velocity of lift.
 Idle period of lift is the difference of the total time for one
operation and the working period of the lift.
 CONSTRUCTION:-
 Cage: It is fitted on the top of the sliding
ram where the load is placed (i.e. lifted
load).
 Wire rope: It connects the cage to pulley.
 Sliding ram: It is fitted in the fixed cylinder
which is reciprocate (upward or downward
direction) when we applied the pressure (i.e.
reaches the floor wise)
 Pulleys: pulleys are connected to the sliding
ram and fixed cylinder; where one pulley is
fixed and other pulley is movable.
 Hydraulic jigger: It consists of a moving
ram which slides inside a fixed hydraulic
cylinder.
 Fixed cylinder-: It is fixed with the wall of
the floor, where the sliding ram reciprocate
when we apply the pressure.
APPLICATIONS OF HYDRAULIC LIFTS:

1. • Wheel chair lift.

2. • Industrial hydraulic applications.

3. • Material handling.
• Truck trailers.
MODERN INNOVATIONS
 Now days the speed of hydraulic lifts has been
increased enormously.
 By using working oils in hydraulic actuators while
energy recovering operation is performed by the
hydraulic lift device, occurrence of pressure pulsation
in the working oil can be prevented, and energy
recovering efficiency is increased.