Vacuum cup ball swivels

motion guru · Apr 6, 2016

We are building some end of arm tooling for a robot and I am looking for any recommendations for a single point vacuum rated swivel.

I like the products made by Anver -> Vacuum And Suction Cup Ball Swivel Connectors . . . but, I want a single swivel point rather than a "double jointed" unit.

We have a requirement to calibrate by putting a spherically mounted reflector into the vacuum cup and a single swivel mount allows us to measure more accurately.

mdshunk · Apr 6, 2016

When I think vacuum, I think PIAB. I know they have some vacuum cups with such a swivel built in. I have an Exair vortex cooler on the one mill that has a single jointed fitting like that. I'm not sure I'd worry very much about whether it's "vacuum rated" or not, if all you're doing is sucking a reflector to it, unless it's the magnitude of vacuum that is the subject of calibration.

motion guru · Apr 6, 2016

The vacuum is used to hold onto parts and the reflector needs to be used on occasion for calibration.

You bring up something I forgot to mention, the Piab units I looked at are limited to +/- 12 deg . . . we need something closer to +/- 25 deg

Miguels244 · Apr 6, 2016

Festo only goes to +-15

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