Food Processing Equipment Shaft Collars And Rigid Couplings
Key points
Producers of food and beverage have unique concerns of ensuring accuracy, sanitation and reliability for their equipment. Ruland's rigid couplings and shaft collars are specially designed and manufactured to meet the stringent application requirements of the food handling and packaging and the processing systems and achieve the same through providing greater efficiency with reduced down times.
Importance of selecting Ruland rigid couplings for food processing
Ruland rigid couplings are available in a wide variety of sizes and styles to suit the needs of food packaging processes such as case erectors, cartoners and form-fill-seal machines.
Rigid couplings are ideal for shaft-to-shaft applications and precise servo driven applications because they don't contribute misalignment, vibration or bearing noise to the system.
They have precision ground bores, anti-vibration hardware and opposite hardware on two-piece designs to offer maximum fit, alignment and holding power. Ruland offers 303 stainless steel couplings with similar material hardware as standard stock products.
Proprietary Nypatch anti-vibration hardware is used to avoid galling, provide uniform seating of the screw and allow repeated screw installations. Rigid couplings are offered in one- and two-piece clamp designs with or without keyways from 3 mm to 50 mm bore sizes.
Special order custom sizes, inch to metric step bore combinations and 316 stainless steel are also available.
Principal applications for Ruland shaft collars on food equipmen
Clamp style shaft collars on food equipment utilized in food processing, packaging and handling applications are most commonly used for guiding, spacing, stopping, mounting and component alignment.
Food equipment manufacturers utilize the tightly controlled Ruland shaft collars' face to drill perpendicularity (TIR ≤ 0.05 mm) that is important when they are used as a bearing face or for component alignment such as gears or bearings.
All Ruland shaft collars are finished to a fine burr free finish that reduces the potential for metallic system contamination and improves or enhances food processing equipment appearance.
Shaft collars made of 303 and 316 stainless steel employ hardware of the same material for consistent corrosion resistance and regulatory compliance. Plastic shaft collars can be called out as an economical substitute to stainless steel at the cost of performance.
Plastic shaft collars are packaged with stainless steel hardware for protection against corrosion. Ruland also offers anodised aluminium shaft collars with stainless steel hardware where plastic or stainless steel is not necessary in areas of the system. Shaft collars are manufactured from bore sizes of 3 mm up to 150 mm.
Compliance and manufacturing excellence
Ruland shaft collars and rigid couplings are RoHS3, REACH, and Conflict Minerals compliant. They are manufactured from bar stock that has been acquired from choice North American mills and precision-made in Ruland's modern manufacturing plant in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA under strict controls with proprietary processes.
“Learn how Ruland shaft collars and rigid couplings can help make your food processing equipment more efficient,” says Chris Gumas, Ruland Director of Marketing. “Visit www.ruland.com for product details, CAD data and to order custom solutions engineered to suit your specific requirements.“
Product links:
UK distributor:
Acorn Industrial Services Ltd.
Phone 0800 8766 441
Email enquiries@acorn-ind.co.uk
Web www.acorn-ind.co.uk/ruland
US contact:
Ruland Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Phone +1 508 485 1000
E-mail marketing@ruland.com
Web www.ruland.com
