SMC rotary joints

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With the current trend for automation systems to include operations involving rotation and horizontal transfer, SMC Pneumatics has added a further model to its range of low torque, metal seal type, MQR rotary joints with the launch of the new MQR16 option.

Accommodating sixteen air circuits in an innovative spiral port arrangement, MQR16 offers more connectability and subsequent choice of tube direction. With its hard aluminium and stainless steel construction, low maintenance performance is said to be guaranteed and early tests are said to have indicated an operational lifetime in excess of one hundred million rotations.

With low and high speed capabilities, the MQR16 can operate with a rotational frequency of up to 200 rotations per minute and it is claimed its torque remains unaffected even when left idle for long periods of time.