spreader

Spreader can refer to:

• Broadcast spreader, an agricultural machinery or lawn care tool designed to spread seed, fertilizer, lime, sand, ice melt, etc.
• Spreader (railroad), a kind of maintenance of way equipment designed to spread or shape ballast profiles.
• Hydraulic spreader, a tool used by emergency crews in vehicle extrication.
• Spreader (sailboat), a spar on a sailboat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast.
• Spreader bar, a BDSM bondage device.
• Spreader (lifting), a lifting device used to distribute forces appropriately for structural or interference reasons.
• Manure spreader, an agricultural machinery designed to spread manure.
• Spreader (container), often "spreader bar", device to attach transport containers to cranes
• Spreader (mining), a heavy equipment used in surface mining and mechanical engineering/civil engineering.

Als Spreader oder Containergeschirr bezeichnet man im Betrieb der Umschlagbahnhöfe und Hafen-Terminals die Hebezeuge, mit denen ISO-genormte Container umgeschlagen werden. Sie sind am häufigsten an Containerbrücken oder Portalhubwagen zu beobachten.

En el transporte de contenedores en puertos y terminales ferroviarias, se conoce como spreader al sistema elevador con que se manejan los contenedores que cumplen con la norma ISO.

L spreader és un sistema elevador emprat en el transport de contenidors en ports i terminals ferroviàries per moure els contenidors que compleixen amb la norma ISO.