Product category:
Workholding - miscellaneous clamping systems, components
News Release from: FS Engineering | Subject: Compact grippers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2008
Compact grippers made for pick and place
A range of compact grippers, suitable for accurate small parts pick and place applications, includes parallel and angular double acting, self centring and light weight units.
A range of compact grippers from FS Engineering comprises high quality parallel and angular double acting, self centring and light weight units They are suitable for accurate small parts pick and place applications
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Parallel grippers type PPM come in four sizes with gripping forces from 50 to 185N.
They feature a lever system providing smooth and accurate motion for the steel jaws in their roller bearing guides.
With a body height of only 45mm for the smallest unit and weighing just 75g, the super compact parallel grippers type PPC include similar features as the PPM.
In addition they are fully enclosed preventing dirt from entering the gripper mechanism.
FS Engineering said that this model is particularly suitable for use in clean assembly areas.
Examples include for electronic components handling or fitted to injection moulding robots to place precision inserts and removing plastics components.
The angular grippers type PAP are also available in four sizes with a robust steel lever system providing jaw angles from -10 deg to +30 deg and a torque range from 0.48Nm to 2Nm.
The gripper bodies are made in hard anodized aluminium and include multiple mounting holes and slots for the optional position sensors.
Plain mechanical design and robust build quality resulted in a neat range of economical and highly reliable small grippers for use with numerous automated production processes.
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