New Year Celebration with ‘Spiderman suit’- Global Institute creates new device for climbers

Amritsar, Dec. 24 (Punjab Post Bureau)- In a fascinating show, students of Mechanical Engineering Department of Global Institutes, demonstrated wall climbing action using an indigenous device named “Spiderman suit”, to mark New Year Celebrations.   The device created by students used for climbing buildings is built on the formula of Vacuum operation (creation- release) to assist a human climber to easily undertake a climb on vertical or angular walls. It can reach points in a building where heavy cranes cannot extend or where the wall front is tricky and has been a big headache for tall structures and high rise buildings.

During the demonstration of the device at the Einstein Block of the institute campus named after the popular comic figure, students were thrilled to see the working model. Dr Akashdeep Singh Vice Chairman of the Institute informed that the device has been designed and developed by a 7-member team of final year students of Mechanical Engineering including Bhupinder Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Arpit Bassi, Baldeep Singh, Barjinder Singh,  Chamkaur Singh and Dilawar Singh, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Himanshu Tripathi of Mechanical Engineering Department.

Students had first designed and then analysed the equipment using Creo-1.0 software. The vice chairman explained that the Spiderman suit can be used to climb elevated buildings as also in buildings that are built as clusters such as in an ancient part of the city like one in Amritsar”. The spiderman suit can have wide spread applications in field of defence, fire fighting, terrorist operations, rescue actions, construction and building maintenance besides others. Spiderman suit  can generate upto 2400 mm3/per second suction pressure and support over 100kg person to easily climb to any desired height. The major components used are Vacuum Pump motor, Gloves, Suction Pads, Pressure Release valves besides foot matchers.  The machine operates on 230 volt single phase power supply and costs around Rs 20,000.

Dr. Akashdeep singh commented that presently a switch is used to on or off the vacuum during the climb students were working on a single lever like gears to smoothen the shifting operations and thus make is simpler, efficient and more practical. The device created in the institute laboratory is environment friendly as it emits no pollution and is light in weight. Other working prototypes created by Institute students include high performance automobiles, bicycle  quadcopter etc.