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Gantry

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gantry, gauntry
1. a bridgelike framework used to support a travelling crane, signals over a railway track, etc.
2. the framework tower used to attend to a large rocket on its launching pad
3. a supporting framework for a barrel or cask

gantry [′gan·trē]
(engineering)
A frame erected on side supports so as to span an area and support and hoist machinery and heavy materials.

gantry
A framework, usually of heavy timbers, to support building equipment or to provide a working platform.

Gantry 

in engineering, a load-bearing Π-shaped structure consisting of two side posts, or legs, or four posts interconnected in pairs and a top girder or frame. It is a component of such machines as the gantry-type traveling crane or gantry machine tools. Gantries are used to maintain the working element of a machine or other assembly at a constant elevation. They may be fixed or may move along guide tracks or rails.



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WORK will start today to install a new overhead gantry on the M6 toll near Cannock and additional equipment to the variable message signs on the M6 in the Midlands.
CHAOS descended on the Metro system this morning after a man climbed up a signal gantry at a Newcastle station.
The gantry is used to rotate the entire apparatus for beam delivery, so that protons aimed at the tumor can enter the patient's body from multiple directions.
 
 
 
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