What is an air casters footprint?

The term footprint has become more and more popular as a way of describing the properties of an electrical appliance or similar. Things like printers, copiers etc.

What it means is the actual amount of space that it takes up on let's say, a floor or desk. So if you take the whole of the bottom surface of an appliance and place it on a desk, the amount of space it takes is the actual footprint of the item.

Footprints are generally referred to either as a shape or a set of measurements. For instance, the dmensions of my printer may be something like 24" x 24" x 12", so its footprint would be
2' x 2'.

However, when we look at the footprint of a load moving system, this is a little different.

An air caster load moving system does not have a set or default footprint. The footprint will always be different and will depend on the type of load you are going to move.

In general, whenassembling a set of air casters you would place them on the floor surface in the rough shape of the load's footprint. Having the aircasters in a rough footprint makes the placing of the load onto the air casters that much easier.

Here is an example of an air casters footprint.

You will see there are two hose feeds to the air casters - red and blue. They appear to be fixed, bit they are not. They are arranged into a footprint of something that is square. They can easily be changed and moved to a different shape footprint. When aload is placed upon the air casters, the individual load modules are then adjusted and placed under the load in the required locations.

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