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Wheel holders are used in carriages for parcel sortation and baggage handling systems – due to the kinematic effects generated by cornering, the carriage wheels also need to be able to swivel. Conventional wheel holders are made from steel or aluminium, but faigle’s lightweight plastic Swivel wheel comfort takes a different tack. Wheel holders are designed to bear the weight of the carriage and the items it carries, and to withstand shocks and centrifugal forces when the carriage takes corners.
Even when the wheel holders are exposed to significant loads, it’s vital that deformation is kept to an absolute minimum to stop the carrier from sinking. The pivot bearing needs to be play-free and silent, as well as extremely reliable during many years of operation. Acoustic decoupling of the wheel and the carrier is another key requirement, as this minimises the transfer of vibrations and noise. All this underlines the need for wheel holders to be robust and hard-wearing, as well as quiet and long-lasting to ensure smooth sortation system operations. And the Swivel wheel comfort meets all these requirements.
A groundbreaking solution, the Swivel wheel comfort is made entirely from plastics – this makes it significantly lighter than its steel and aluminium counterparts, as well as delivering outstanding performance. Thanks to its high-strength design featuring highly rigid and impact-resistant carbon-fibre-reinforced polyamide, the holder’s wheel fork is ideally suited to carrying heavy loads.
The plastic wheel shaft on faigle’s new wheel holder is so stable that it actually exceeds the load-bearing capacity of the ball bearing by some distance. The shaft is fitted in damping bushings. Securely fixed in the wheel fork using a clip system, it can be assembled without any tools. Made from a type of plastic specially developed by faigle, with optimised tribological properties, the plain bearing that allows the wheels to swivel in the required direction does not require any lubrication throughout the wheel holder’s entire service life.
- The use of high-performance plastics translates into significant energy efficiency gains, which in turn makes a substantial contribution to enabling your company to hit its sustainability targets.
- Lightweight design helps to cut drive power needs
- Effective vibration damping reduces operating noise
- Shock absorption helps to extend the ball bearing’s service life
- Shorter assembly times thanks to ready-to-install module
- High-performance plastics and optimised design ensure excellent load-bearing capacity and rigidity
- Quick-change system for rapid, tool-free wheel replacement
- Prevents deformation even when exposed to heavy loads
Wheel holders in parcel sortation and baggage handling systems
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Applications
Wheel holder applications
Wheel holders are used in carriages for parcel sortation and baggage handling systems – due to the kinematic effects generated by cornering, the carriage wheels also need to be able to swivel. Conventional wheel holders are made from steel or aluminium, but faigle’s lightweight plastic Swivel wheel comfort takes a different tack. Wheel holders are designed to bear the weight of the carriage and the items it carries, and to withstand shocks and centrifugal forces when the carriage takes corners.
Even when the wheel holders are exposed to significant loads, it’s vital that deformation is kept to an absolute minimum to stop the carrier from sinking. The pivot bearing needs to be play-free and silent, as well as extremely reliable during many years of operation. Acoustic decoupling of the wheel and the carrier is another key requirement, as this minimises the transfer of vibrations and noise. All this underlines the need for wheel holders to be robust and hard-wearing, as well as quiet and long-lasting to ensure smooth sortation system operations. And the Swivel wheel comfort meets all these requirements.
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Materials
Swivel wheel comfort – materials
A groundbreaking solution, the Swivel wheel comfort is made entirely from plastics – this makes it significantly lighter than its steel and aluminium counterparts, as well as delivering outstanding performance. Thanks to its high-strength design featuring highly rigid and impact-resistant carbon-fibre-reinforced polyamide, the holder’s wheel fork is ideally suited to carrying heavy loads.
The plastic wheel shaft on faigle’s new wheel holder is so stable that it actually exceeds the load-bearing capacity of the ball bearing by some distance. The shaft is fitted in damping bushings. Securely fixed in the wheel fork using a clip system, it can be assembled without any tools. Made from a type of plastic specially developed by faigle, with optimised tribological properties, the plain bearing that allows the wheels to swivel in the required direction does not require any lubrication throughout the wheel holder’s entire service life.
- The use of high-performance plastics translates into significant energy efficiency gains, which in turn makes a substantial contribution to enabling your company to hit its sustainability targets.
Swivel wheel comfort – advantages
- Lightweight design helps to cut drive power needs
- Effective vibration damping reduces operating noise
- Shock absorption helps to extend the ball bearing’s service life
- Shorter assembly times thanks to ready-to-install module
- High-performance plastics and optimised design ensure excellent load-bearing capacity and rigidity
- Quick-change system for rapid, tool-free wheel replacement
- Prevents deformation even when exposed to heavy loads
Swivel wheel comfort – quality
Quality lies at the heart of everything we do – at faigle we are committed to ensuring that our products meet the highest quality standards. We use a series of test scenarios developed in-house to evaluate, measure and record product quality. Quality management plays an accompanying role throughout our development and production processes, in order to make sure that the results satisfy all of the requirements for the article concerned.
And we are dedicated to maximising quality for our customers, too – as reflected in our extensive range of testing equipment and approaches, as well as certification by several external organisations. It goes without saying that these quality requirements also apply to faigle’s wheel holders – robust and reliable, they meet international quality standards.
Swivel wheel comfort product overview
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What are the advantages of faigle wheel holders?
The kinematic effects of cornering in parcel sortation and baggage handling systems call for wheel holders that are able to swivel. Conventional wheel holders are usually made from steel or aluminium to ensure that they can bear the weight of the carriage and the load, and withstand shocks and centrifugal forces. At faigle, however, we use plastic – which is robust, but also lighter.
This is because it’s vital to keep deformation to an absolute minimum in order to stop the carrier from sinking, even when the wheel holders are carrying significant loads. The pivot bearing needs to be silent and play-free, and operate reliably over the course of many years. Using damping bushings to give the wheel sufficient cushioning is also important, in order to minimise the effects of vibrations and noise on the carrier. All of these factors mean that wheel holders need to be robust and hard-wearing, as well as quiet and long-lasting – to ensure the trouble-free operation of your sortation system.
How complex are wheel holders to install?
Installing faigle wheel holders couldn’t be easier – or quicker. We supply a ready-to-install module with the running wheel already fitted, which simplifies the entire process considerably. Robust and lightweight, the plastic wheel shaft can be fixed in the fork by means of a clip system, without the need for any tools – which makes assembly even faster. Our quick-change system means the wheels can be replaced in next to no time – a major advantage in applications with changing requirements, and when carrying out maintenance work.
The high-strength design of the wheel fork on faigle’s Swivel wheel comfort – which features highly rigid, impact-resistant, carbon-fibre-reinforced polyamide – is ideally suited to handling heavy loads, and helps to reduce assembly times as well. Alongside innovative, high-tech solutions, faigle’s new wheel holder is also extremely simple to install, which saves time and valuable resources.
Is the running wheel included?
faigle’s Swivel wheel comfort comes with a pre-fitted running wheel, which can be quickly replaced manually without the need for any tools – making for particularly speedy wheel changes. faigle always tries to see things from the customer’s perspective and their requirements are reflected in the constructions and designs of our various models. If you have any questions regarding assembly, the different forces and loads that influence your system, or any of the other products in our range, our customer support team will be happy to give you all the information you need.
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