Spyraflo bearings for quality performance and cost

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Mar 15, 2007

Document and image scanners want smoothness, quietness and long life: Spyraflo self-clinching, self-aligning bearings continue to be the answer, meeting the 10 year warranty requirement

Document and image scanners want smoothness, quietness and long life: Spyraflo self-clinching, self-aligning bearings continue to be the answer, meeting the 10 year warranty requirement.

The imaging business machine manufacturer is US based, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-speed, high-capacity document image scanners, and has again specified Spyraflo self-clinching, self-aligning bearings for their quality performance and cost savings.

The company's primary product is a scanning platform that converts paper documents into colour and bi-tonal digital images.

Their advanced scanning technology depends on the bearings, as one of the more critical components for helping to transport documents down a track at a relatively high rate of speed.

Dependable and 'low-to-zero' maintenance bearings are critical components for these operations since they are crucial to control the level of smooth, noiseless motion that is designed into this equipment.

A major consideration for their customers is the incredible 10 year warranty and so naturally the company always looks to specify products they feel can hold to this guarantee.

Over and above the superb performance, the 6mm and 8mm diameter self-aligning Spyraflo bearings also dramatically cut manufacturing costs.

This is through their ability to self-clinch directly into sheet metal therefore removing the need for expensive precision-machined blocks.

This long established customer has used Spyraflo self-clinching, self-aligning bronze products exclusively for years and recently also started using the Teflon-Bronze bearings, which offer a much higher load carrying capability, as well as greater oscillatory motion.

Micromech is the UK and Eire distributor of these clever bearings, if you would like more information about them or perhaps require a sample, then contact Miranda Howard at Micromech, to discover the current 'revolution in bearing solutions'.