Monday, November 3, 2008

Pneumatics

Pneumatics is the use of pressurized gas to affect mechanical motion.

Pneumatic power is used in industry, where it is common to have factory units plumbed for compressed airinert gases can be, and are used in smaller or self-contained systems. It also has applications in, among others, dentistry, construction, and mining. although other compressed

Factory-plumbed, pneumatic-power users need not worry about poisonous leakages as the gas is commonly just air. Smaller or stand-alone systems can use other compressed gases which are an asphyxiation hazard, such as nitrogen - often referred to as OFN (oxygen-free nitrogen), when supplied in cylinders.

Any compressed gas other than air is an asphyxiation hazard - including nitrogen, which makes up approximately 80% of air. Compressed oxygen (approx. 20% of air) would not asphyxiate, but it would be an extreme fire hazard, so is never used in pneumatically powered devices. Robot Wars machines and other hobbyist applications are often powered by compressed carbon dioxide because it is readily available in soda stream and fire extinguishers, and is cheap.[citation needed] Carbon dioxide is both an asphyxiant and poisonous, and can also be a freezing hazard when vented.

[edit] Examples of pneumatic systems

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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Brass Fittings, Flow Controls, Valves, Connectors, and Tubing

Alkon
We distribute a variety of products from Alkon, a leading manufacturer of fluid power products, including high flow, ultra reliable flow controls. All Air Incorporated offers Alkon brass fittings, push-in tube fittings, flow controls, and multi-purpose valves.



Alpha Technologies
All Air Incorporated offers quality Alpha Technologies push-in fittings and pneumatic accessories including nickel plated brass fittings, flow controls, and needle valves.



Fabco
We offer flow controls, needle valves, and Port Sizes ranging From #10-32 - 1/2 NPT, from Fabco, a world class pneumatics product manufacturer.



Freelin-Wade
Plastic Tubing, in Polyurethane, Nylon, PVC, Polyethylene, Single or Multi Bore, Coiled and Multi-Color Ribbon.



Humphrey Products
We supply brass barbed fittings, metric push-to-connect fittings, and bronze mufflers from Humphrey Products, a leader in the pneumatic industry.



Memco
From Mem-co, the leading designer and manufacturer of quality miniature barbed air fittings, we offer brass barb fittings and stainless steel barb fittings.



Parker Hannifin Corp
All Air Incorporated offers a variety of products from Parker Hannifin Corp., the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems. Included in our product line are Parker compression fittings, barb fittings, brass pipe and flared fittings, "Prestolok" push-to-connect fittings, solenoid valves, ball valves, plastic tubing, copper tubing, needle valves, rubber hoses, and flow controls.



Pisco
All Air Incorporated distributes a variety of technologically advanced Pisco pneumatics equipment, including push-in style fittings, couplers, vacuum transducers, miniature regulators, valves, manifolds, and logic components, all in metric or imperial sizes.



Rectus
From Rectus, a leader in the field of quick connect couplings, we offer a variety of products including quick connect couplings, brass, stainless steel and plastic, standard and sub-miniature sizes.


SPC
All Air Incorporated offers durable, reliable, and cost-effective SPC products, including push-to-connect fittings, flow controls, and tubing.


Tomco
We carry a variety of high quality pneumatic, hydraulic and straight-through couplings products from Tomco, including quick couplers, hose fittings, blow guns, relief valves, check valves, and slide valves.


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Pneumatic Actuators

Allenair
All Air Incorporated has recently become a distributor for this high quality manufacturer of air and hydraulic cylinders, established back in 1947. The product line includes brass or stainless steel cylinders, single or double acting, in any style mounting required. They offer a variety of seal configurations to best fit your application. Bore sizes are from 1/2'' up to 4''. The cylinders offer cushions, adjustable stroke kits, rod guides, filter silencers, bleeder valves, and is willing to customize a unit for your application. Specialty cylinders include double ended, three position units, tandem units, as well as their unique "valve-in-head" cylinders.. Using this valve-in-head design, they can even offer automatic reciprocating, or manually operated cylinders. Allenair offers cylinder attachments such as their "cyl-check" for oil controlled, smooth, uniform and precise control of their pneumatic cylinder. They also produce one of the best rotary tables in the industry, as well as air clamps in l-l/8'' to 2'' bore sizes. Try this great product in your next application.


Air-Mite Devices
All Air Incorporated offers a variety of pneumatic automation components from Air-Mite

Devices, including multi-stage presses, safety controls, and air cylinders.



Airpel Cylinders
All Air Incorporated has recently become a distributor for this high quality manufacturer manufacturer of ultra low friction, super-responsive pneumatic piston and cylinder motion actuators. They have a unique seal-less construction and combination of materials that allow high cycle rates without lubricants, smooth operation at extreme temperatures, and instrument quality performance for low to medium force and energy levels.


Fabco

Airpel


From Fabco, a world class pneumatics product manufacturer, we offer Pancake® cylinders, Global-series cylinders, Longstroke cylinders, Hi-Power cylinders, "multi-power" cylinders, "multi-power" presses, linear slides, air-oil tanks, and grippers.



Humphrey Products / Koganei
We offer a variety of components from Humphrey Products, a leader in the pneumatic industry. We distribute Humphrey pneumatic actuators from 3/32'' to 2 1/2'' bore sizes, stainless steel round-body cylinders, twin port cylinders, multi-mount cylinders, block cylinders, twin rod cylinders, and swing cylinders. We also supply rodless cylinders, rotary actuators, grippers, cylinder joints, and flow controls.



Mead Fluid Dynamics
All Air Incorporated offers a number of products from Mead, a leading manufacturer with 50 years of experience in pneumatics. We offer Mead cylinders 3/4" to 6" bore sizes, air presses, and index tables. From tie-rod NFPA to round-body design, Mead makes every type of cylinder desired.



Parker, Schrader Bellows
Parker has always been a well known name in the industry when it came to manufacturing pneumatic actuators. When the Schrader Bellows Company was purchased by Parker, the product line offering was now complete. Now you have access to compact cylinders, round body cylinders, tie rod cylinders, rodless cylinders, as well as guided cylinders. With many bore sizes, and endless accessories and features, along with sensors and flow controls, they've got the perfect actuator for your needs. You'll also find rotary actuators in rack and pinion or vane style drives, swing clamp actuators, and short stroke thrusters, perfect for your application. They also have 26 series of grippers, in more than 1000 configurations.



Precision Pneumatics
We offer a variety of Precision Pneumatics products including single and dual-axis slides, gantry-style slides, fine-adjustment stop collars, and the accessories required, including proximity sensors, cable carriers, and shock absorbers. X-Y cylinders in a sin

gle-body construction make accuracy a given.



Rotomation
We carry the full line of products from Rotomation, a leading manufacturer of practical, durable, rotary actuators. We offer rotary actuators, rotary steppers, indexers, and pick & place robotic actuators. We also distribute adjustable rotation, adjustable cushions, and many rotary specials. Rotomation's unique indexing actuator utlilizes a precision pawl-and-ratchet system that ensures accurate positioning.


Springville
We offer a variety of Springville products including "Silver Bullet" cylinders, low-cost aluminum tie-rod style cylinders, telescoping cylinders, and air-oil tanks.


Tol-O-Matic
All Air Incorporated is proud to represent Tol-O-Matic, the only North American manufacturer which produces all types of rodless technologies. We offer cable cylinders, band cylinders, magnetically coupled cylinders, clutches, linear slides, and caliper disc brakes. We also carry Tol-O-Matic rotary actuators, rod cylinder slides, grippers, rotogrippers, and adapter plates. They also offer a full line of electronic motion control products.




TRD Manufacturing
We offer a number of durable, high-quality construction and long-lasting performance products from TRD Manufacturing. The product offering includes NFPA interchangeable air cylinders, rod couplers, air-oil tanks, and multi-power cylinders. TRD's cylinders have bore sizes ranging from 1 1/2" to 12". Specials and modifications are always welcome from TRD Manufacturing. Standard delivery is 3-4 days.



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Pneumatic Valves

Airtrol
All Air Incorporated offers a variety of Airtrol products including pressure and vacuum switches, pressure regulators, vacuum regulators, and relief valves and comparators. This product line also features Airtrol's SDU-5000 series miniature stepper motor driven regulators and precision orifices and accessories.



Allenair
This new addition to the All Air product offering, has 1/8'' thru 1/2'' ported valves, in both single and double solenoid operators. The Allenair Company has specialized in the technique of manufacturing valve-in-head cylinders, which keep many systems cleaner, and easier to diagnose. Allenair also has logic valves to save you components when building commonly used circuitry.



Asco Scientific
From Asco Scientific, the worldwide solenoid valve designer and manufacturer, we offer solenoid valves, micro-miniature solenoid valves, process controls, pinch valves, pressure sensors, and pressure and temperature switches.





Fabco
We offer a number of products from Fabco, a world class pneumatics product manufacturer, including solenoid valves, manual valves, mechanical valves, flow controls, check valves, and fittings. Fabco's standard delivery is 3-5 working days for non-stock valves, one of the best in the industry.


Generant
This firm is a leading designer and manufacturer of pressure and flow control products. For over 75 years, Generant has been supplying micro-metering needle valves, highly accurate relief valves, and extremely durable pressure regulators. They also offer a wide variety of check valves.



Humphrey Products / Koganei
We distribute a variety of items from Humphrey Products, a leader in the pneumatic industry. Our selection includes solenoids, mechanically actuated solenoids, air actuated valves, manifold or stand alone mounting, air, liquid, or vacuum service, vacuum generators, glue valves, and miniature fittings. We also offer foot pedals, quick exhaust valves, shuttle and check valves, 3mm to 3/4" NPT, and flow controls.



Lexair
All Air Incorporated offers a variety of products from Lexair, a quality manufacturer of machine tool accessories and fluid power products. We carry Lexair manual valves, mechanical valves, and pilot and solenoid operated valves.




Mead Fluid Dynamics
We stock a variety of products from Mead, known for their pioneering approach to valve design. We carry valves from 1/8" to 1/2" NPT, foot pedals, shuttle valves, and two hand safety controls. We also offer Mead flow controls, impulse relays, miniature valves, and manifolds. Be sure to check out their Isonic series valves. These offer built-in tube fittings, compact design, and manifold mounting, and are extremely cost-effective.



Parker Pneumatic/Watts
From Parker Hannifin Corp., the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, we offer soft start valves, solenoid shutoff valves, manual and mechanical valves, standalone and manifold-mounted solenoid valves. They also offer a full line of logic components from their Telepneumatic product line


Pisco, Inc.
All Air Incorporated distributes a variety of technologically advanced Pisco pneumatics equipment, including solenoid valves and manifolds, mechanical valves, check valves, and ball valves.



Precision Dynamics, Inc.
All Air Incorporated offers a variety of Precision Dynamics, Inc. products that solve fluidic problems for companies in multiple industries. We carry Precision Dynamics solenoid valves, air valves, liquid valves, and brass, stainless, and plastic bodies. We also offer Precision Dynamics special manifold assemblies, and miniature or large sizes.



Schrader Bellows

When this company was purchased by Parker, the valve offering was greatly expanded. They now offer the "Moduflex", "Microking", and "Solstar" series of manifold solenoid valves. Their Serial Addressable Modules make wiring less of a chore. You will also find their full line of Control Panel products extremely helpful. To round it out, you will see ball valves, flow controls, manual valves, slide valves, foot pedals, and poppet valves. If you are looking for a valve of any type, Shcrader Bellows / Parker has it!


Sinclair Collins
This company has been setting the standards for control valves used on industrial processes for over 50 years. The diaphragm operated design gives them the ability to be used as steam valves, modulating control valves, two-pressure hydraulic control valves, pressure regulating, and pressure relief valves. These valves are perfect for high pressure service, hot and cold water, air, and inert gas service. You can use their control modules for maintaining and balancing the air pilot signals. They also offer high pressure check valves.


Universal Components, Inc.
From Universal Components, Inc. we provide gauges, ball valves, mufflers, and air and electrically piloted ball valves.



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Sensor Products

Airtrol
All Air Incorporated offers a variety of products from Airtrol, including pressure and vacuum switches, pressure regulators, vacuum regulators, relief valves and comparators. We also offer SDU-5000 series stepper motor driven regulators and precision orifices and accessories.



Autonics
We carry products from Autonics, a leading factory automation manufacturer. With a variety of counters, timers, temperature controllers, panel meters, tacho-speed-pulse meters, display units, sensor controller, tower light and super light photo sensors, Autonics can solve any application need. If that weren't enough, Autonics also offers fiber optic sensors, proximity sensors, encoders, power controllers, pressure sensors, stepping motor drivers, and stepping motors.





Canfield Connector
From Canfield Connector, a leading fluid power industry manufacturer, we offer electrical connectors, sensors, timers, and accessories. From reed, to hall effect switches, in a variety of mounting styles, they have your sensor.



Contrinex
All Air Incorporated offers inductive and photoelectric proximity switches from Contrinex, a leading manufacturer of inductive and photoelectric proximity switches. Their Stainless steel series allows accurate sensing in rough environments.



Parker, Schrader Bellows
The Schrader Bellows line of products is an exclusive line of products used to interface pnuematic and electrical components. These products include pressure electric switches, vacuum sensors, digital gauges, and transducers.
With the Parker line of products, you also have the feature of using a proportional air regulator, or an electro-pnuematic pressure regulator, to control sensitive systems.



Pinnacle
We carry a variety of products from Pinnacle Systems, a manufacturer of safety light curtains for hazardous area protection. We offer Pinnacle safety light curtains, ergonomic palm buttons, brake monitors, punch press automation controllers, and safety mat systems.



Trol
All Air Incorporated offers products from Trol, including miniature low-cost programmers, pocket programmer kits, computer programmer kits, and I/O expansion units. We also offer output expansion units, analog I/O expansion units, and analog output amplifiers.



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