The Parrot Beak®  Story

Liftomatic was founded in 1947 by two guys armed with an innovative design - a two wheel hand truck that grabbed a drum by the top lip to keep it from falling over during transport.  The development was a first in U.S. industry (or perhaps anywhere). That hand truck used an upper and lower jaw arrangement that a customer remarked looked "just like a parrot beak". Over the years new products for different applications were introduced - still using that remarkably simple "Parrot Beak®" arrangement.

Parrot Beak© Technology

Today, Liftomatic holds more than dozen patents on drum handling devices. you can get all kinds of equipment which can lift, palletiz, transport, dump and generally manipulate a drum in any fashion that your operations require. Through all that time, the parrot-beak has remained the Liftomatic symbol of integrity - it's safe, it's effective, and it backs up our claim that "you can't afford to drop a drum!" Contact us today and let us help with your drum handling applications. We look forward to your call.

 
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