Spiral Brushes
Spiral brushes is a category which refers mainly to twisted-in-wire brushes,
although it may also refer to a number of other circular or cylindrical-type
brushes used in commercial and industrial manufacturing, including wheel brushes,
twisted knot wheel brushes, coiled strip brushes and cylinder brushes. Used
in a wide range of applications, different types of spiral brushes are made
differently; twisted-in-wire brushes are bristles clamped and spiral twisted
between folded wire; wheel brushes have a solid circular base with radiating
bristles, while twisted knot wheel brushes have metal bristles which are grouped
together and twisted to increase abrasion; coiled strip and cylinder brushes
are cylindrical brushes with outward facing bristles. Each of these types of
brushes are used to perform different cleaning, deburring, surface finishing
and scrubbing functions during the industrial manufacturing process.
Twisted-in-wire brushes are relatively easy and cost-effective to manufacture,
in comparison to some other brush types. Used mainly for cleaning, twisted-in-wire
brushes are made with nylon, polypropylene or abrasive metal bristles with
steel, aluminum or brass base wires. Capable of being manufactured very small,
twisted-in-wire brushes perform cleaning and surfacing applications in tight
places which could not be reached otherwise. Twisted-in-wire spiral brushes
clean bottles, cans, fireplace flues, OEM machine parts, sockets, tubes and
tube fittings, equipment parts and other parts. Other common applications include
medical instrumentation, valve guides, deburring, polishing and swabbing.
Cylinder brushes, coiled strip brushes and wheel brushes are used frequently
in conveyorized processing for cleaning, surface roughening, dusting, sorting,
washing food products, lint brushing, static dissipation, pipe cleaning, textile
felting and surface finishing. Spiral cylinder brushes are self-cleaning and
are ideal for removing undesirable particles from a moving web. Metal-bristled
wheel brushes and twisted knot brushes are often used at high speeds for deburring
or surfacing. Bristle, or fill material is made from natural plant or animal
fiber, nylon, polypropylene or metals such as brass, bronze or stainless steel.
A broad range of industrial manufacturing applications has given rise to the
diversity of stock and custom brushes of all sizes, shapes and materials.