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By studying Enidine air springs, their architecture and hallmark design features, the investigator in charge of this study can’t help but admire the product range’s component-less force storage capabilities. A flexing natural rubber or fabric-toughened neoprene core delivers vibration isolating strength to the pneumatic dampeners. They even perform as actuators, with their interior flex members replacing conventional air cylinders. Back to the investigator, though, exactly how do the springs work?

Enidine Air Springs Dampen Vibrations

It’s as simple as that, they’re designed to absorb and store kinetic energy. If vibrations are propagating noisily through a metal frame, the installation of an air spring acts as an impact governor. It smoothens those noisy shakes and shudders so that an equipment frame doesn’t shake itself apart. As for its interior functions, let’s use a single convolute bellows model to illustrate the design principles. That single “convolute” device arrives as a lone doughnut-shaped ring, which is locked between a series of fastening plates. For our purposes, the YI-1B5-502 is chosen from its selection chart. It’s fitted to a scissor-lift, a lifting bench that’s a key segment in a manufacturing line’s process chain. Here, the elastically imbued rubber absorbs the scissoring frame’s vibratory clicks-and-clacks as it rises and falls. Locking itself at a set height, those vibratory energies then dissipate.

How Do Air Springs Work?

Simple but elegant energy-dampening laws rule the device’s interior architecture. There’s a quantity of compressible air sealed inside the rubberised housing of a high-performance Enidine air spring. As a load exerts its noisy presence, that air is distributed, then the rubber bladder follows suit. This process continues until the stretching rubber, compressed air and shrinking space equalise against the vibratory force. Granted, an air cylinder operates in a similar manner, but that cylindrical device can’t alter its shape to accommodate the spreading air. By substituting a rubberised member, the air can distribute freely inside that elastic housing. Thanks to this design, a double convolute YI-2B6-530, using its twin-ring build, can isolate industrial-strength machine oscillations. If that doubled-up dampener architecture isn’t up to the job, there’s the option to upgrade once again, this time to a triple convolute type air spring.

Indeed, tripled-up or smaller, Enidine air springs just work. On looking at those rubber/neoprene flex members, they don’t assume their duties unless they’re sandwiched between their forged or cast retainer caps. By the way, those end plates are made of heavy steel or aluminium, or there’s a cast zinc option. They compress their air-filled elastic bellows while performing as variable or intermittent load distribution plates. Then, with the air springs active, the expanding and compressing rubber pushes against those plates to provide stroke height control and that all-important vibration-isolating feature.

For more information, download the air springs catalogue, visit our Enidine page or contact us.

Larger production pieces require equally large vacuum cups. Pushing that rationalisation aside for a moment, we turn to small vacuum cups, to the Morali Vactec Systems solutions that daintily manoeuver their miniature charges. Scaled down in size, these system automation aids play an essential role in numerous industrial domains. From post office backrooms to semiconductor production lines, mini vacuum cups are carrying out their fiddly assignments.

Identifying the Market Gap

An extensive range of small vacuum cups, all differently shaped and made from singular material families, are available at ENKOSI. Like the assorted confections that spill from a child’s candy bag, the variety of mini vacuum cups seems impossibly vast. There’s a good reason for that degree of diversity. Taking smaller products into account, the kind that glide along hulking equipment lines, an all-encompassing object manipulating group of miniature vacuum suckers is a crucial asset, one that ENKOSI has on tap.

Introducing Lightweight Lifters 

Small in profile but gifted with large lifting features, MiniVac sucker cups use pneumatic muscle to securely grip their lightweight burdens. They’re sized in millimetres, as measured across the diameter of each cup. Next, the SolarVac group slots into place in a factory that’s busily fabricating the newest generation of energy-efficient solar panels. The glass is glossy and slippery, yet the SolarVacs never falter as they grip each panel. There’s even a range of mini vacuum cups for the candy industry. Known as “Pralines,” the air-assisted grippers manipulate awkwardly sized sweets. Imagine that small form factor for a moment as it carries peanut-sized sweets or pharmaceuticals.

When Size Isn’t Enough 

Clever surface sucking mechanisms partner with tacky synthetic rubbers to support the air-augmented lifting system. Check out Morali Vactec Systems bellows cups, with their high retention strength feature. Lifting paper bags and other limp products without effort, these concertina shaped vacuum suckers are available in tiny cup sizes. A skinny 4mm wide cup will lift and collate small envelopes, tiny circuit boards, and all manner of diminutively sized products. Finally, above and beyond these common form factors, look for oval and rectangular mini vacuum cups, an air aided range that wins out when a specific application requires a specific solution.

The small vacuum cup inventory, as tirelessly gathered by ENKOSI, is packed with numerous mini cup shapes, cup materials, and form factors. Bellows or MiniVacs, SolarVacs or oval pads, that kaleidoscopic range of automated machine tool grippers occupies a special place in the ENKOSI catalogue thanks to Morali Vactec Systems, a manufacturer armed with the finest, most exquisitely fabricated vacuum cups.

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ENKOSI has been in business ever since 1992 when it first opened its doors under the name of CAPS Consolidated. We are a leader in the field of manufacturing and supplying high-quality, affordable specialised tooling and production equipment to the aviation, automation and manufacturing industries. One of the quality products that we offer to our clients is the Vi-Cas line of vacuum cup products. If you are unfamiliar with the uses for these cups or just need further details before ordering them, refer to the following information.

Possible Uses for Vi-Cas Vacuum Cup Products

Vacuum cups from Vi-Cas are made for a variety applications such as feeding, pick-and-place, label placement, small-part placement, heavy-load placement, soap handling and other types of applications along with holding glass and hanging objects. The model number that you require will depend on the specific application that you are using it for at your place of business.

Examples of the Vi-Cas Vacuum Cup Products and Related Items That We Offer

Vi-Cas manufactures more than 1,000 styles of vacuum cups. The materials in them include urethane, vinyl, rubber and silicone. Also, this company makes related products that help the vacuum cups perform their function. Check out the list below to learn the various products of which we speak, and that you can purchase from ENKOSI:

• Round vacuum cups
• Oval vacuum cups
• Soap cups
• Plastic suction cups
• Grabbers
• Cup adapters
• Tightening discs
• Grippe rubbers
• Rubber cups
• Rollers

Reasons to Purchase These Products From ENKOSI

We provide Vi-Cas products locally as well as overseas. We have agents throughout Australia to help serve our clients as quickly as possible or the clients can drop by our offices here in Victoria. Vacuum caps are not the only products that we sell, since we also offer a wide assortment of gripper mechanisms, bellows, vibration isolation products, industrial shock absorbers, products for machinery protection, Desoutter power tools, Eckold AG products and more. Our products are durable and effective elements for the aviation, automation and manufacturing industries in various locations in Australia and other countries.

Browse through our website to learn additional facts about Vi-Cas vacuum cups and our other products that we carry. Contact us with any questions you may need answers to prior to ordering. We fulfil orders in as timely a manner as possible for your convenience. Our company looks forward to being your source for our wide assortment of products.