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The Guidelok system was developed for vertical energy chain applications with large lifting heights in racking units, elevators, inclined elevators and material handling equipment. Compact and easy to install, also as a retrofit system, it makes energy and data transfer safe in goods warehouses, deep freeze storage, and crane systems or even in wind power plants. Previously the suspended energy chain was routed in an enclosed groove system or vertically guided using other similarly completely enclosed solutions. Thanks to the clever design, the energy chain traps itself and there is no longer any need for expensive casing of any kind. thanks to the smooth running of the chain.
The chain is suspended in a stainless steel or galvanised steel guide channel. Two rocker arms - push button and catch button - in the groove, which are automatically triggered by the radius, fix the chain in place. The rocker arms form a positive offset locking mechanism that works as follows: if the lower run of the energy chain is not in the groove, the rocker arm is in the idle position.
If, however, the lower run moves over the push button in the groove, the catch button is activated. This then extends and holds the energy chain in place, so that it cannot swing out to the side or hit anything even with masts 80 metres high and acute horizontal dynamics. Each part of the energy chain is thus automatically fixed in place by the rocker arm mechanism as it runs through the groove. This not only ensures operational safety, it also reduces noise to a large extent.
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