kippbare

Kippbare is a Dutch adjective meaning tiltable or capable of being tilted. It describes objects that incorporate a mechanism allowing controlled tilting around a pivot, for purposes such as emptying contents, adjusting orientation, or enabling access.

In everyday and technical usage, kippbare appears in descriptions of furniture, equipment, and vehicle bodies, as well as in industrial machinery. Examples include kippbare tafels (tiltable tables), kippbare kisten (tiltable chests), and kippbare laadbakken (tilting cargo beds). In industry, tilting mechanisms are common in hoppers, chutes, dump trailers, and laboratory or medical equipment where contents need to be discharged or reoriented.

Mechanisms that enable tilting typically involve hinges or pivots, and may be operated manually or powered by hydraulic, pneumatic, or spring-assisted actuators. Safety considerations are important and often include locking devices, gas struts, counterweights, and load-limiting features to prevent unintended tilting and to ensure stable operation during tilting.

Linguistic note: in Dutch orthography, the form kippbare is the attributive form used with certain determiners or noun phrases, for example de kippbare laadbak. The base form kippbaar functions as the raw stem, while kippbare is one of the inflected variants in context.

See also: hinge, tilt mechanism, tilting chair, tipping bucket, safety latch.