Machined springs offer several benefits not available with wire wound springs, such as integrating multiple features into one piece. Gary Boehm will cover the differences between machined and wire wound springs, features and benefits, as well as application tips, including tips for using them in torsion and wrap spring clutch applications. You will learn the…

Smalley Steel Ring Company announces the launch of a new mobile web site. The mobile site, found at www.smalley.com/mobile offers Smalley customers the increased ease of accessing some of the most useful tools on the Smalley website via smartphone. The Smalley mobile site features allow for fast and easy part selection. By using the “Quick…

Smalley Steel Ring Company announces the launch of a new Parts and Engineering Catalog. The new catalog combines previously existing Spirolox Retaining Ring and Wave Spring series with newly released series including Hoopster Retaining Rings, Constant Section Rings, Metric Wave Springs and Small Series Wave Springs. Smalley is pleased to offer the new catalog to…

A new series of 5 air springs from Advanced Antivibration Components – AAC are designed to offer a favorable stroke-to-compressed-height ratio when compared to air cylinders. They are designed for operating temperatures of -20ºC to +60ºC (-4ºF to +140ºF). This mount is featured at the AAC eStore where you can order online, request a quote,…

Brooklyn NY – Lee Spring has issued a Midyear Edition of its 2010 Stock and Custom Catalog, including the two innovative product lines first introduced in January 2010. LeeP™ Plastic Composite Springs now feature even stronger spring rates while continuing to meet a wide range of applications where non-corroding, non-metallic, inert materials are preferred. Bantam™…

Custom “machined” springs let you integrate multiple features into one piece. These unique springs can be designed specifically to address requirements for rate, reactions at desired deflections, combined rates, modal properties, weight and inertial limits. You can specify end attachments such as tangs, clamps, flanges, or threaded ends can be integrated into the single multi-functional…

Lee Spring, a leading global manufacturer of mechanical springs since 1918, introduces LeeP™ plastic composite springs, which are molded from SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Ultem* resin. These springs are among the first springs made with engineered plastic, which gives them several advantages over traditional metal alloy springs. Ultem resin gives the new springs a range of…

Brooklyn NY — The world is shrinking every day and so are the size requirements for springs. Lee once again listens and responds with stock spring solutions designed to solve customers’ growing requirements for smaller sizes. Lee Spring introduces Bantam Mini Compression Springs, adds smaller diameters to their REDUX™ Wave Spring line and expands their…

Material suppliers create products at an amazing rate. It seems like nearly every day, I receive news about new epoxies, plastics, metals, and adhesives. They are as varied as the applications for which they can be used. Here is a sample of a few new products that have been recently launched to the marketplace. Maybe…

New Hyde Park NY – A new series of air spring vibration mounts from Advanced Antivibration Components (AAC) feature excellent vibration isolation of low frequency machines. Air springs use elasticity of air as an isolator which act as a soft spring. There are no moving parts and are therefore maintenance free. These mounts handle a…

Lee Spring introduces LeeP™ Plastic Composite Springs, a revolutionary breakthrough in spring technology. LeeP is Lee Spring’s answer to increased customer requests for springs that combine the strength of metal with the special attributes of high performing engineered thermoplastics. After years of extensive engineering design and materials research by their expert technical team, Lee Spring…

Servometer® / PMG, LLC miniature, flexible, gold plated bellows contact springs insure reliable electrical continuity in applications where tolerance buildup, vibration, and thermal expansion become a problem with lifetime spring and force repeatability. Their spring flexibility allows them to minimize shock and vibration in dynamic applications. Due to their very low spring-rates, force requirements of…

SANTA MARIA, CA–Differences in coil geometry enable machined springs to provide more precise performance, features and functions than can other, more traditional types of springs. There are big differences in performance, reliability, versatility, integrity, and cost effectiveness. The bottom line is that machined springs offer more functions in a single spring than other more traditional…

Schaumburg, IL — Misumi USA, Inc. has announced the recent expansion of its line of Washers for Stainless and Carbon Steel Compression Springs. Compression Springs of all sizes are commonly used across a broad range of factory automation applications. Misumi‚’s ruggedly made Compression Spring Washers (Part No. SPGCC20-9-6) are available in two different types, with…

Medical device engineers are evaluating the use of tiny springs to improve the performance of implantable devices that act like joints in the human body. The springs, manufactured by Bal Seal Engineering, Inc., have been incorporated into the conceptual design of a ball-and-socket type carpometacarpal (CMC) device used to replace diseased or arthritic joints and…

Brooklyn NY — Lee Spring ‚‘s new 2009 Stock and Custom Catalog features over 16000 inventoried products including three product line expansions developed in direct response to customer demand for an even greater range of corrosion resistant springs. The expanded lines are REDUX Wave Springs, Lite Pressure Compression Springs and Battery Springs. Lee now offers…

Helical Products Inc. launches an all new website focused on delivering a vastly improved user experience and key technical information. A new ‘Flexure Facts’ database is easily searchable to find all of the various uses flexible couplings can be applied to, from aerospace to medical applications. The HELI-CAL Flexure is a flexible helix (curved) beam…

Lake Zurich, Illinois ‚— Smalley Steel Ring Company, world leader in the manufacturing and development of Spirolox‚® Retaining Rings, Snap Rings and Wave Springs introduced today four new series of Snap Rings that are directly interchangeable with Eaton‚® rings. The new XAH, XAS, XDH and XDS series are available from stock in over 300 sizes…

Round wire springs are tailor-made for assemblies that require resistance to linear compressing forces, but what happens when your design has limited room? When space is a factor, a Mars lander has the answer. The rugged Spacecraft, designed to gather and return data from the planet‚’s artic poles, incorporates a Crest-to-Crest wave spring from Smalley…

Smalley Wave Springs can be designed for use in the harshest of climates, on Earth, Mars or in space. A Lockheed Martin technician works on wiring inside the backshell that will be used to protect NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander. During the 9 -month cruise period and decent through the Martian atmosphere, the aeroshell system —…

SANTA MARIA, CA., — “Machined” springs from Helical Products Co. combine the elastic properties of materials such as high strength steels, aluminum and titanium with a curved beam helix (HELI-CAL® Flexure) to provide precise deflection rates for compression, extension, torsion, lateral bending and lateral translation spring functions. Applications range from deep space instrumentation to medical…

Lake Zurich, Illinois – Smalley Steel Ring Company, the world’s innovator and market leader in industrial retaining and snap rings, wave and compression springs, introduced today a New Series of Metric Crest-to-Crest® wave springs. Crest-to-Crest springs enable original equipment manufacturers to reduce the size of their assembly by up to 50% while maintaining the same…

(Lake Zurich, IL) -Smalley’s complete product line is now available in one easy to navigate catalog. The new catalog includes over 7,000 standard wave springs, spiral retaining rings and snap rings. Smalley’s new catalog offers simplified part selection, special design and engineering tools and the latest applications of Smalley products. This catalog is available in…

(Lake Zurich, Illinois) – Smalley Steel Ring Company, the industry leader in spiral retaining rings, snap rings, and wave springs, announced today the purchase of Spirolox, Inc. from the Kaydon Corporation (NYSE:KDN). “We are looking forward to providing Spirolox customers with world-class industrial products and service,” said Mark Greenhill, vice president. “Furthermore, Smalley offers Spirolox…

(SANTA MARIA, CA.)-In Helical machined springs, desired features or functions such as special attachments, precise spring rates, multiple integral coils, and other special characteristics can be made part of the spring. Machined springs also support multiple design objectives such as reliability, repeatability, and integration of multiple parts, which result in a reduction of assembly complexity.…