Safety Gate from Mezzanine Safeti-Gates Provides Robotic Fall Protection

Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc., an innovator in the design and manufacturing of pallet drop safety gates that provide fall protection in distribution centers, warehouses and manufacturing and material handling facilities, announced that it now offers RobotGate™, a new safety gate designed to protect industrial robots from falling into shafts of vertical reciprocating conveyors (VRCs) or elevators in automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) of material handling and warehousing facilities.

The new RobotGate utilizes a power operated, single gate system that provides fall protection for ASRS automated robots and pallet shuttles as they move from level to level. The steel safety gate interlocks with the elevator or VRC and mounts to existing pallet rack and any floor rails the robots use to move around the area. RobotGate keeps its shaft-facing gate closed in order to keep the robot away from the ledge of the elevator shaft, only opening when the elevator is present and aligned with the floor on that level.

The RobotGate is another instance in which a custom engineered safety gate design has evolved to become a standard model sold by the company. Other models that started as custom designs include the Open Top, Tri-Side, Dock-Lift and High Pallet Pivot safety gates. Pallet drop safety gates systems manufactured by Mezzanine Safeti-Gates come in standard single-wide and double-wide sizes. All safety gates can be manufactured in stainless steel or powder-coated steel and finished in any color. Custom engineering can be obtained for uncommon pallet drop area sizes and or unique applications.

Representatives from Mezzanine Safeti-Gates will be in ProMat booth S1849 in Chicago’s McCormick Place from March 17-20, and can discuss RobotGate applications.

For more information, visit https://www.mezzgate.com.