Innovations in transport anchor systems are rather rare, because such systems with threaded sleeves or spherical balls - e.g., as hole anchor systems or wire-rope lifting loops -have been long established with designers and manufacturing precast plants and can no longer be imagined without for building with reinforced-concrete elements. These products, with their perfectly matching system components and with their high quality and safety standard perfectly cover the wide-ranging application possibilities. There nevertheless remains sufficient room for new transport anchor types with characteristics that open up new applications and/or improve existing practices. Towards that end, the company Philipp has combined the extensive know-how gained from joining technology with the mechanisms of transport anchors. The result of this effort is the wire-rope lifting box (see Fig. 1): a flex- ible rope loop that is folded out from one side of a securing box, with all the advantages of a wire-rope lifting loop (see Fig. 2). This results in an even higher-performing and yet more economical anchor that enables direct fixing without lifting tackle. This also does away with the widely unpopular collecting and returning of lifters and the resulting often necessary checking for an end to service life of the equipment that this involves. On the other hand, the open flexible end-anchorage of the rope loop offers great room for adjusting to complex geometric conditions and/or existing reinforcement layouts - in particular for concrete precast diaphragm beams.
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