Small but brave
A guide roller is a wheel or a roller that ensures that an object continues to follow the imposed path. The guide roller rolls in a profile or on a rail that determines the trajectory. When guiding, the forces on the wheel are usually limited. Impact loads or taking turns puts extra forces on the toller.
When a guide roller also has to carry the load, we are more likely to talk about load wheels and the load bearing capacity becomes a determining factor in the choice of materials Printhopan® or Vulkollan®.
Printhopan® : the other guide roller
- Temperature range: -20°C to +35°C, briefly upto +60°C.
- 59 Shore D (brown color) and 74 Shore D (light brown color).
- Noise-dampening
- Resistant to oils, grease and numerous chemicals
- Non-marking
- Resistant to wear
- Average load bearing capacity
- Low speed
Vulkollan® (NDI) guide roller: the ultimate elastomer
- Temperature range: -40°C to +85°C, briefly upto +120°C.
- 75, 80, 92 or 95 Shore A
- Noise-dampening
- Resistant to oils, grease and numerous chemicals
- Non-marking
- Very resistant to wear
- High load bearing capacity
- High speed
Applications
- Revolving doors
- Transport lanes (for postal parcels)
- Linear guides
- Linear robots and automations
- Guide rollers in warehouse cranes
- Chain guides
- Conveyor belt guide rollers
- Elevators
- Escalators
- Rollers for cable cars in cranes, port cranes
- Transport lanes, skid conveyer roller, …
