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Guide Rollers

Guide rollers, also known as idler rollers, are used to properly align parts and materials with their intended pathway or track when moving through machinery or equipment. Not only providing guidance, guide rollers also offer additional support. One common application of guide rollers is for use in conveyor systems, which are most often utilized in the industrial manufacturing industry for materials and parts handling.

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American Urethane, Inc.
Odenton, MD
800-394-7883
American Urethane is a quality manufacturer of guide rollers. They provide customers with engineering assistance, secondary operations, tooling and mold-making, metal bonding and inserts, casting, molding and quality control. For all of your applications, American Urethane can create the perfect part to your requirements and specifications. Visit their website or call today!
 
Harwood Rubber Products, Inc.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
330-923-3256
Harwood Rubber Products has the facilities and production capacity to meet your individual needs, yet they are not too large, allowing them to still provide exceptional personal service. They are able to guarantee your orders will receive prompt attention from the very people you discussed your order with. For the guide rollers you are in need of, call Harwood.
 
Western Roller Corporation
Bend, OR
800-541-2317
Western Roller Corporation will always strive to improve quality and production methods to provide their valued customers, and partners, with the superior quality and most cost effective products. When it comes to guide rollers, they have the perfect solution for your unique and specific application needs. Call WRC today, to get a quote on the perfect part for you.
 
Unicast Inc.
Easton, PA
800-275-0818
Unicast Inc. has been a family owned and operated company since they opened their doors in 1984. They have a standard catalog of replacement parts for the envelope and corrugated box industries, as well as a custom line that can produce parts to fit any application. For all your guide rollers and other needs, be sure to contact Unicast for a quote today.
 
Gallagher Corporation
Gurnee, IL
800-373-8793
Offering customers product design and development, along with mold making, machining, custom and injection molding, Gallagher has all of the tools to create the perfect guide rollers for your applications. They want you to experience the best levels of quality and customer service that you have ever had. Call or visit the website today for a quote on your next order.
 
Weaver Industries, Inc.
Denver, PA
717-336-7507
Weaver Industries, has been helping customers improve their industries for more than fifty-five years. Their improvements with technology have given them fast, efficient and most effective methods for producing your products. It also has helped materials specifications and applications broaden. For your next order of guide rollers, call Weaver, for expertise you can trust.
 
Hiawatha Rubber Co.
Minneapolis, MN
800-728-3845
For Hiawatha Rubber, the more difficult your design and application are, the more valuable they will become as a partner in production for your company. They provide only the highest quality goods and superior service you deserve when working with you to find the perfect guide rollers for your application. They also have a cost-saving tooling library.
 
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Guide Rollers

Industries that benefit from the use of guide rollers include automotive manufacturing, for use in car lifts, tensioners and other power transmission applications; construction, in off-road equipment such as lift trucks and traveling cranes for material handling applications; mining, for underwater and underground applications; healthcare, for health imaging equipment such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans; and various processing industries, such as metalworking, textile production, paper milling, foil production, film manufacturing and more. Typical materials used to manufacture guide rollers include silicone, polyurethane, nylon and vulcanized rubber. These materials are used because they provide adequate hardness, since guide rollers must be able to provide uniform surface tension in applications such as conveyor belts and web converting in order for the processes to run smoothly.

Although they can also be formed from plastic or metal, when they are formed from rubber, the two main processes used to fabricate guide rollers are compression molding and injection molding. In injection molding, the rubber material is heated to a molten state and then injected into a split die chamber or mold cavity, which is clamped shut. Next, the mold is cooled by running water over it, and the cooling allows the roller to form. In compression molding, the rubber material is also heated to a molten state. However, instead of being injected into the mold, the molten rubber is placed in an open mold. The mold is closed by top force known as a plug member and pressure is applied in order to achieve the desired shape. Since guide rollers must be manufactured from hard materials, they are often encased in jackets to ensure additional tensile strength. For jacketed guide rollers, a rubber to metal bonding process is used. In rubber to metal bonding, rubber is adhered to a metal substrate, such as steel or aluminum, through the use of a bonding agent. The bonding agent generally consists of polymer-solvent solutions, a primer coat based on phenolic-style resins and a top layer consisting of a mix of polymers and other materials. Constructed with or without a shaft, guide rollers offer easy installation and maintenance, a low rotating mass, easy maintenance and reduced friction.