Aeris Corporation:
Slide Mounted Air Bearings are used extensively in the Rigging Industry to make repetitive heavy load moving reliable and easy. Large steel pallets with Slide
Mounted Air Bearings are used to move heavy loads of sheet metal blanks weighing up to 20,000 pounds from the stamping press to a nearby staging area. This
eliminates any production downtime while waiting for a fork truck.
The operation includes a reinforced fabricated steel pallet with top mounted fixtures, four slide mounted 21 inch diameter Air Bearings, simple pneumatic control
circuitry for on/off operation, a guide rail for straight line transfer and a newly prepared concrete floor surface. Four 21 inch Air Bearings have a total system
capacity of 28,000 pounds using only 90 SCFM (standard cubic feet per minute) @ 25 PSIG (pounds per square inch – gauge pressure) of compressed air. The Slide
Mounted Air Bearings can be removed for inspection or replaced if necessary even with a full load of blanks, making maintenance easy and quick. This is another
reason why Air Bearing platforms have a high availability within the plant production cycle. Another advantage of the Air Bearing is the fact that floating a
large 20,000 load on a thin film of air requires only 60 pounds of effort to move the loaded platform.
Air Bearings are used in many applications in addition to the one stated above and consequently are manufactured in diameters ranging from 12 to 60 inches and
can transport loads from 200 pounds up to thousands of tons. Once floating on a thin film of air the Air Bearings provide low frictional force making transport
easy, omni or four direction motion to optimized floor space, precise positioning, and low surface floor loading. In addition Air Bearings provide for a clean
and quiet operation, gently move sensitive loads and in many cases eliminates the need for fork trucks and/or overhead cranes. Aeris Corporation manufactures
standard as well as custom designed systems including individual Air Bearing load modules, planks, pallets, roll-movers, turntables, and power driven steel
transporters.
Inquire today to find out how Aeris Corporation can help you.
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