Rodless Cylinders Photo Courtesy of Tolomatic.
Air cylinders are utilized in enough contexts to have many styles for some specific applications. One such style is the rodless cylinder, notable for its lack of rod that is standard with every other air cylinder design. The traits of these rodless cylinders and the contexts within which they are used vary on the design as well; there are a couple major rodless styles that are very particular.
Although it is more common then not, all air cylinders are not designed with rods in place to do the moving. Rods restrain air cylinder movement to a lateral plane alone, while one rodless cylinder, the rotary model allows a more fluid movement to take place. Imitating the range of the human wrist in motion as well as Continue reading
When one thinks about industrial products, fun and interesting are not the first words that come to mind. However, there are products that are simple but fascinating, able to create energy from something as basic in existence as air. How can this not be intriguing, particularly when focusing on a Continue reading
One design has always got to stretch beyond the bounds of its brother and sister designs. Well, perhaps this isn’t always true of industrial products, but it is true of a specific type of industrial product. Air cylinders were a revolutionary system when they first came out, turning air into energy with a very simple system. Both saving energy and helping the environment by utilizing a clean energy source, air cylinders are Continue reading