Creep Drive

Planetary Gear Drives, has come out with specially designed Planetary Creep Drives for overhead cranes. Creep Drives has a nominal ratio of 10 : 1 and are ideal for getting positive creep speed for full load. All the gears are made from proper grades of alloy steels and hardened. The foot brackets and housings are made of cast steel. The input shaft of the Creep Drive is connected to the creep motor and the output shaft is connected to the main motor. The complete creep gear box is free to rotate on bearings which are fitted in foot pedestals. The shoe brake is fitted on the base and is applied on the outside diameter of the ring gear. In normal running, the brakes are open, main motor is running and creep motor is stationary. In creep mode, the creep motor is running, the main motor is off and the brakes are on.