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™…
Springs Give You Many Options
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…
A New First, Springs Made from Molded Plastic Resin
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…
Lee Spring Grows Catalog by Going Smaller
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…
Have a Heyday with New Materials
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 Series of Air Springs from AAC
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
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…
Miniature Bellows Contact Springs from Servometer
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…
Machined Spring vs. Wire-Bound
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…
Misumi Expands Line of Compression Spring Washers
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…