Pneumatically powered (compressed air) , air pallets are generally a suitable choice for indoor areas such as warehouses & factories. Working on a smooth, level, non-porous flooring surface, they could whisk loads away from a loading dock to their intended place very very quickly. Air pallets can move & lift loads up to 4500kgs with very little human effort. For loads beyond 4500kgs, Rotair Systems offers custom-built air pallets to suit your specifications. Selections include the fitting of integral guide wheels to help with steering, and drive wheels to ensure of propulsion. Like their aluminium platform transporter counterparts, they’re also reasonably low profile and have a height of around 2 inches with deflated air bearings. Air pallets are made available with either A-type or B-type air bearings, based on the envisioned use, kind of floor surface, and type of load they would be moving. A-type air bearings are the conventional standard fit, and when they’re energised, they move the load away from the floor surface “just enough” to float the load which could then be moved off to its intended place. This kind of set up requires the load to be placed upon the air pallet. Once air pallets set up includes B-type air bearings, the features of air pallets alter slightly. B-type air bearings have a lift height which makes them whisk a load or pallet away from its base before moving it laterally to its location. This sort of lift is available for numerous circumstances when loads are not able to be placed on the air pallet by other methods. In addition to the higher lift of the B-type air bearings, they also are a little more powerful and could usually work on flooring surfaces that look rougher than the regular smooth concrete type of surface. However, they do use about the twice the amount of compressed air as the A-type air bearings do. However, in certain instances the B-type are definitely required for the job and are well worth the additional compressed air that is spent.
