5 Things About Journey of Weighbridges You May Not Have Known

Weighbridge History

Weighbridges are nothing but scales which weigh incoming and outgoing materials from your factory or on your public weighbridge. 

Upon this trucks, trailer, railway wagons etc. can be weighed.

Weighbridges date to the 18th century. 

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Weighbridges have been mainly 5 types up till now :

1. Mechanical Scales:  At first came the mechanical scales. It was a mechanical weighbridge which was lever based.  When weight was put on the scale the lever used to rise and the weight was shown accordingly .
   
   
2. Dial Weighbridges : After that came the dial weighbridges. In the dial weighbridge, there was an indicator  which moved like an analogue clock. 
   
   
3. Dial Weighbridges with Printing : In the third stage came dial weighbridges with printing. It was the same old dial weighbridges in which you could insert the printing tickets and punched by the lever and as a result a slip would come out.
   
   
4. Electro Mechanical Weighbridges: The fourth kind that came were electro-mechanical weighbridges in 1900s. These included the lever and the load cells as well. But it had the same issue of accuracy.
   
   
5. Electronic Weighbridges: Then in the late 1900s came the electronic weighbridges. Electronic weighbridges are based out of load cells and indicators which electronically transmit a signal thereby showing the weight. 

These are the above 5 types of weighbridges and in the near development there are Software weighbridges coming up.