Coil tongs
In many industrial enterprises, coils need to be transported, turned and placed into storage while raised. This needs to be done in a way that is as protective as possible for the materials and as safe as possible for employees. WIMO Hebetechnik offers innovative and durable heavy load transportation solutions for this purpose.
Coil tongs from WIMO® enable safe and rapid transportation and allow coils to be turned and placed into storage. Like all WIMO® products, all coil tongs are custom-designed for the individual application scenario. The circumstances on-site are taken into consideration and utilised to optimal effect. This results in innovative and high-performance special-purpose designs. Our coil tongs are designed for a very long service life.
Telescopic coil tong with horizontal rotary drive

Automatic telescopic coil tongs for fully automatic transport. With separately movable arms, light barriers for precise positioning and folding claws for gentle coil pick-up. Automatic lubrication ensures smooth operation.
Telescopic coil tong with spindle drive

Telescopic coil tong with spindle drive for safe and rational material handling. Self-locking trapezoidal spindles prevent the tong arms from opening when loaded, even in the event of an operating error (e.g. when tong becomes tilted due to uneven depositing of load). Robust spindle drive thanks to special bearing.
Telescopic coil tong with spindle drive

Telescopic coil tongs with spindle drive and horizontal slewing gear. Enables flexible storage of aluminium coils with inner sleeves in various orientations.
Telescopic coil tong with spindle drive, separate moving tong arms

Telescopic coil tong with spindle drive, separately movable tong arms and sensors. The coil tongs are fixed to the crane via 2 rope pulleys. The tongs are fixed in the uppermost lifting position. The coil tongs pick up the coils on the transfer station in front of the automatic area. For this purpose, the arms are moved separately so that they can also pick up coils that have not been placed in the exact position. The clamps are folded in during the approach to the coil. Light barriers are used to check whether the gripper arms are positioned centrally to the coil eye. The separately movable gripper arms approach the coil. In order to protect the coil, the closing movement is stopped by switch-off bars leading ahead. When the motor has been stopped via the shut-off bars in both gripper arms, the claws are folded down to pick up the coil. While the coil is being lifted, the automatic centre compensation brings the coil into the centre of the clamp housing.
Telescopic coil tong with horizontal rotary device

Telescopic coil tongs with folding claws. Enables space-saving storage.
Patented Slit strip gripper with spindle drive and folding support brackets

Patented slit strip tongs with spindle drive. Enables safe and efficient transportation of slit strips.
Telescopic coil tong with spindle drive, particulary designed for use in ports

Telescopic coil tong with spindle drive, rotatable via particularly stable ball bearing slewing ring. The folding claws are a great advantage, especially for loading and unloading ships. This means that the gripper arms require less space when approaching the coil. The clamps are only folded down when the tong arms are in the optimum position. This way, the folding clamps make it easier to enter the coil eye and protect the coil.
Telescopic coil tong in mechanical design

Telescopic coil tong in mechanical design. The cost-effective solution for manual coil transport. The investment is comparable to ropes and belts, but the transport is significantly safer for people and material.
Telescopic coil tong with chain dirve system

Telescopic coil tongs with chain drive and motorised horizontal turning device. Perfect for precise handling and flexible transport.
Telescopic coil tong with extra low headroom

Telescopic coil tongs with spindle drive in a particularly low design. Ideal for low hall heights or stacked coils.
Attachment for transporting coils and bundles of sheet metal loaded on pallets

Attachment for transporting coils and bundles of sheet metal loaded on pallets. Ideal for occasional changes of goods to be transported. Designed for fast and safe slinging without time-consuming changing of the load handling attachment. The sheet metal package adapter is placed in a trestle. The coil tongs retract into the adapter with the claws on both sides. By picking up the adapter, the load safety device of the coil tongs switches. The load safety device prevents the tong arms from opening under load - in this case "under the load of the adapter". Even in the event of accidental incorrect operation, the tong arms will not open. Safe transport of the sheet packs is guaranteed.
Telescopic pallet tong with spindle drive

Telescopic pallet tongs with motorised horizontal rotary drive and spindle drive. Pick-up claws can be rotated by 90 degrees for flexible handling. The slim design enables space-saving and narrow storage, e.g. on lorries.
Stand with ladder and maintenance platform

Stand with ladder and maintenance platform - allows easy access to mechanical and electrical interfaces and for maintenance work.
Scrap container tong

Scrap container tong with suspension adapter for coil tongs. Enables the load handling attachment to be picked up without manual intervention for transporting scrap containers.
Telescopic coil gripper with hydraulic drive

Hydraulically driven double telescopic coil tongs. Enables simultaneous transport of two coils of the same width and reduces demurrage charges in harbour operations.
Telescopic coil gripper with spindle drive

Tandem telescopic coil tongs with spindle drive and folding claws. Ideal for transporting two coils at the same time. Thanks to the two separate tong housings, two coils with different widths can be transported at the same time. This maximises efficiency in port operations.
Multi-purpose tong with horizontal rotary drive system

Multi-purpose tong with horizontal rotary drive system. The four pick-up claws of the combination tongs can be moved by motor in longitudinal and transverse direction and rotated by 90 degrees. The two inner pick-up claws are designed for the transport of coils and can be folded. This means that this load handling device can also be used in confined spaces (e.g. loading and unloading lorries, wagons and freighters). Many different loads can be transported with these universal tongs. When handling sheet metal packages, palleted coils and containers, the four outer pick-up claws are used; when handling coils in horizontal axis position, the two inner pick-up claws are used.
Parallelogram coil tongs, with hydraulic drive system

Parallelogram coil tongs, with hydraulic drive system with additional equipment for gentle material handling.
Mechanical vertical coil tong

Mechanical vertical coil tongs with double-sided load support. The four clamping jaws reduce the surface pressure and protect the coil material for safe handling.
Heavy-duty parallelogram coil tong with hydraulic drive system

Robust parallelogram coil tongs with hydraulic drive and heat protection. Developed for use at high temperatures up to 800 °C in steelworks.
Tong for transporting scrap coils

Hemming scrap coil tongs with hydraulic tong arm drive and rotary drive. Developed for safe and precise insertion into scrap containers.
Edge scrap coil lifting tackle with cordless cable release system

Hemming scrap coil hanger with battery-powered rope release device. Enables easy depositing in containers and quick release of the rope loop by remote control.
Telescopic coil tongs with especially small support prongs

Telescopic coil tongs with particularly narrow gripping claws, spindle drive, horizontal turning device. The particularly narrow gripping claws make it easy to grip the coils on the coil winder.
Hydraulic vertical coil tong

Hydraulic vertical coil tongs with double-sided load support. The clamping force can be variably adjusted independently of the load. Provides safe handling and protects the coil material thanks to reduced surface pressure.
Horizontal turning gear with slewing ring design, motorised drive

Robust horizontal slewing unit with stable slewing ring design. Ideal for 2-point crane suspension and for eccentric loads.
Sliding bolt on rollers

User-friendly design: The sliding bolt is guided on rollers and secured by an end stop to prevent it from falling out.
Hinged support prongs

Hinged support prongs. Ideal for confined spaces and for protecting coils during entry into the coil eye.
Locking the coil tongs in the uppermost crane lifting position

Locking the coil tongs in the uppermost crane lifting position. Ensures safe crane and trolley travel without swaying.
Light barriers

Light barriers enable fast and safe positioning of the gripper arms in front of the coil eye. Particularly effective in combination with folding clamps. In this case, the operator only unfolds the claws when the light barriers indicate via signal lamps that the support claws are in the centre of the coil eye. This avoids unnecessary contact with the coil windings.
Weld-on hooks

Weld-on hooks on both sides for flexible transport of additional loads without removing the coil tongs from the crane hook.
Weighing system

Integrated weighing device directly in the steel structure. Saves height compared to separate scales and offers precise weight measurement.
Protector made of synthetic material

Protector made of synthetic material (changeable) to protect the outer coil windings.
Bolt suspension. With sliding bolt upon request

Bolt suspension on request with sliding pin to protect the crane hook.
Bottom protector made of synthetic material

Bottom protector made of synthetic material (changeable) to protect the outer coil windings.
Extendable support prongs

Telescopic support brackets for coil tongs for the simultaneous transport of several slit strips. Particularly secure support for the slit strips. All slit strips are gripped underneath.