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LINEAR BEARING SYSTEM ADDS CRITICAL EXTRA SPACE TO MOBILE HOSPITAL DESIGN

From ROLLON Corporation

The section is question contains a number of heavy
cabinets for pharmaceuticals, refrigerators and analysis
equipment, so the bearings had to be able to handle a
weight of up to 2000lbs. As well as being expensive to
produce, the positioning of the custom hydraulic system
would have compromised the stiffness of the structure."
Luigi and his team chose Rollon Corporation's Compact
Rail linear bearing system because of the low cost, ease
of installation and the ability of the system to absorb
positioning errors. "Not only was Compact Rail a structurally
better solution, but its also ideally suited to a mobile
installation where parts commonly move around and the
rails have to be forgiving as misalignments occur."

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