Archives February 2021

 Rubber products have an important role to play in everyday life. Some of the important ones are oil seals, vibration mounts, conveyor belts, AS 568 standard O rings and rubber sheets. 

Talking about conveyor belts, you must have come across a conveyor belt while waiting at the luggage area at airports. 

There are mainly 3 types of conveyor belts namely, 

•Basic belt

•Snake sandwich belt

•Long belt

A basic conveyor belt comprises of 2+ pulleys and it can be used manually or with a motor. The items placed on the belt move forward with the forward movement of the belt. They are also used in packaging and parcel delivery utilities as they make movement of goods from one place to another quite easy and effortless.

A snake sandwich conveyor has 2 separate parallel belts and is used to move goods up an inclined surface. This type of a conveyor as created in 1979 and is used widely till date.

A long belt conveyor has 3 drive units and is mostly used for sending goods over a long distance. The main use of this kind of belt is in the mining industry and construction industry.

 All the types of conveyor belts have their own usage and make it easy for people to move goods from one place to another. 

Conveyor belts are used to move goods from one point to another. There are mainly 3 types of conveyor belts – the basic belt, snake sandwich belt, long belt.

There are so many industrial products that help us in our day to day life that we are not able count them. The ones that belong to that category arecustom molded rubber products. 

The most commonly used custom molded rubber products are gaskets and seals, O rings and timing belt. In fact, a lot of things wouldn’t be possible without these products. 

To manufacture custom molded rubber products, there are 3 commonly used techniques and they are the following:

1) Compression molding – For this technique, uncured rubber is used. It is placed in a mold and compressed with the help of heat and pressure. The result is a finished rubber product that is ejected from the mold.

2) Injection molding – This process has been in use since 1960. In this process, pre-heated rubber is injected into a readymade mold with the help of pressure. After the curing is done, the rubber leaves the mold and is ready for use. 

3) Extrusion – Extruded rubber products are put through a die that gives them a tube-like shape. This process is used for rubber pipes and hoses.

The applications of custom molded rubber products are really wide but it is important that they are manufactured properly. 

Custom molded rubber products are manufactured using 3 commonly used techniques that are compression molding, injection molding, and extrusion. The products have a wide number of applications. 

There is a huge demand for different types of products in the manufacturing industry for different purposes. The same applies to molded products. Also, there is the need for a number of products that are made using rubber to metal bonding.

To begin with, there are 3 important elements of a rubber metal bond and they are the rubber, bonding agents and the substrate.

Moving on to the process of rubber to metal bonding, it has the following steps involved
•Elastomer preparation
•Surface preparation
•Primer

•Adhesive application
•Molding
•Testing

Products made using rubber to metal bonding are widely used in different industries. The main use includes shock absorption, reduction in vibration, friction dissipation, sealing, noise reduction and the like.
The industries where these products are used are the following:

•Aerospace
•Automotive
•Construction
•Electrical
•Industrial machinery
•Medical
•Plumbing
There are many different molded products that are put to industrial use and one of them are fabric reinforced hoses.

It is all the more important that the manufacturers of the molded products put in efforts to make the products so that they serve their purpose well and meet the requirements.

Rubber to metal bonding is a procedure involving several steps. The products made using the process are widely used in different industries such as medical, aerospace, automobile and construction to name a few.