Hanel's Rotomat office carousels:

1 Rotomat 200 provides storage space for 17.8 meters of files on an area 178 cm wide.

10 card-file cabinets each with 3 drawers only provide 18 meters of storage space on an area 420 cm wide

The comparison clearly shows: 1 Hanel Rotomat 200 provides the same filing volume on only 40% of the floor space!

The Hanel Rotomat offers you a versatile filing system that adapts flexibly to your needs.

The advantage for you: All the usual filing methods can be combined in one Rotomat!

60% more storage capacity
The Rotomat office carousel from Hanel makes use of the available room height, so its compact design creates up to 60% more filing capacity. This means expensive office spare is used more efficiently.
This saves costs!

Fast and efficient
The Rotomat office carousel from Hanel brings the required files to the retrieval point at the touch of a button in just a few seconds.

Which means:
No distances to walk or ladders to climb when looking for files or returning them after use.
This saves time!

The right decision
If you want to improve your office paperwork and cut costs, you should first speak with our specialists - together we can work out a tailor-made system concept.

Hanel Rotomat

The Principle/Technical Data

The Principle
The compact design of Hanel's Rotomat vertical carousels means vast storage capacity on minimal floorspace. The Hanel Rotomat works on the principle of rotational conveyance, i.e. the goods are brought to the operating personnel and not vice versa.

Structural Design
Self-support steel plate housing, comparable to the cellular structure used in aircraft construction. Environmentally friendly powder coating is used, together with shock-proof and impact-resistant stove enamels which are not only highly elastic, but also non-toxic and physiologically harmless. The outer surfaces are painted in a leather texture finish. The retrieval opening, which is about 600 mm wide, can be closed by a centrally-parted sliding door. A weight counterbalancing system makes it easy to open and close the door. The sliding door and the lower maintenance hatch are locked by simultaneously activated safety locks. The worktable is of durable stainless steel. The safety factor of the suspension chains is 5:1 for dynamic loads and 7:1 for static loads. The carrier-frames are suspended according to the sliding carriage principle and are supported by 4 levers on 4 rollers at both ends. The sliding carriage is designed to safely absorb transverse loads, thus significantly reducing wear.

Drive System
The standard drive system comprises pole-changing 400V three-phase motors (other voltages and special frequencies can be supplied as options) and self-locking worm gear, allowing gentle but powerful acceleration and braking under varied load conditions. A die-cast aluminum gear housing has been selected based on weight considerations. Soft start and soft stop is accomplished by utilizing 2-speed, 3-phase AC motors.

Spring pressure safety brakes operate when the motor switches off and are released electro-magnetically when the vertical carousel is put into operation. Manuel winding cranks are also provided as standard. The twin-motor design used with these wider vertical carousels (3,270 mm width) means less wear and smoother operation compared to a single-motor design.

Safety Devices
If anything is placed in the access opening accidentally the Hanel safety rocker, at the top and bottom of the retrieval opening, interrupts the safety circuit and an air gap opens for the user. This reduces the risk of damage to goods and increases user safety.

The Hanel safety rocker permits relatively level access to the stored goods. In addition to this safety mechanism, 2 to 4 sets of self-monitoring photoelectric sensors are installed for the protection of personnel and goods. These devices are continually self-testing, not only when the vertical carousel is in motion, but whenever power is switched on. This means that if a light barrier fails, all vertical carousel movements are reliably stopped or inhibited. All safety switches are designed to ensure automatic opening.

Control Units
State-of-the-art microprocessor control units take only seconds to guide the required article to the viewing and retrieval point gently and quietly by the shortest rotational route. The electrical control unit is accessible from the front and is accommodated in a special control panel above the retrieval opening for easy maintenance.

The keyboard is in the central of the control panel and can be easily reached. A keyboard that can be moved to the side or stowed beneath the worktable can be supplied as an option. Hanel has a variety of control units in its range. (For information on these ask for our special brochure on microprocessor and EDP controls).

The features of the intelligent microprocessor control systems include: warehouse management with recording of article numbers, parts lists, inventory control for one or more vertical carousels; optional list processing with allocation of free storage positions, re-order point, journal logging, etc; computer link and use of other peripheral devices such as printers, barcode readers, scales; data protection with read-only memories, such as EEPROMs.

Imbalance Load Indicator System (Optional)
Hanel's automated load imbalance device - UL 2 - not only indicates when the load in the vertical carousel is unevenly distributed, but gives recommendations for storage and retrieval movements. The UL 2 system has its own computer which makes this possible.