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Stamped Rings
stainless-steel rings are also available. Standard ring sizes range from 0.040 to 10 in. in diameter, although rings as large as 40 in. in diameter have been made. Rings are also manufactured for metric shaft and bore diameters. Both ring and groove load capacities should be considered when selecting specific
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Wire-formed Rings
applications. Round-section rings are for external use on shafts only and are used where the expected load is light. Ring assembly and disassembly tools range from a screwdriver to automatic tools, depending on the application. Carbon spring steel (SAE-1060) is the standard material used in retaining rings
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Spiral-Wound Rings
. For those applications near the maximum temperature, the ring stress under load should be minimized by using a sharp-cornered retained part, a groove material with a high yield strength, and a ring from the series that uses the deepest grooves. Carbon steel rings are normally given an oil-dip
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Lords of the Ring
, which started out approximately twice the weight of average forged rings, was expected to radiate much greater heat than was typical. And as soon as forging began, operators knew the concern was valid. They also knew that the ring would get larger with each forging step, bringing it closer and closer
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Rings get in the groove Without Tools
Spiral-wound retaining rings expand the design envelope of conventional snap rings. A Smalley spiral retaining ring holds together halves of a split ring in a hydraulic cylinder ram. The arrangement is much simpler than bolted designs, say developers at Allied Systems Co., Sherwood, Oreg. Spiral
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Compact Retaining Rings Fit into Tight Spaces
Retaining Rings for Tight Spaces Hoop-style retaining rings are well suited for use with cylinders and thin-wall tubing. The shaft or housing, not the ring, usually limits load capacity. Hoop-style retaining rings offer an innovative way to retain mechanical components when space is limited
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Handbook guides O-ring design
O-rings are stationary against gland surfaces and slide against shaft surfaces. O-rings tend not to roll in normal operation because fluid pressure forces a larger area of the O-ring against the gland than against the shaft. The Parker O-Ring Handbook is a hardcover manual with 11 chapters
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Accurately Predicting O-Ring Swell
New design tools make arbitrary rules of thumb obsolete. O-ring Div. Simrit Div. of Freudenberg-NOK * Conventional seal-designs rules are obsolete. * Simrit has developed a design tool that predicts O-ring behavior in real-world applications. For more than 60 years, engineers specifying seals