White Paper Shows How To Achieve and Manage High Forces in Rivet, Hole Punch and Broaching Applications
When you have a job that involves riveting, hole punching or broaching, the tried-and-true arbor press can provide the high thrust you need. For large-scale projects, however, it may not be your best choice — especially when time is of the essence or you’re just trying to keep the project simple. After all, hand operation can be inefficient, poses a higher potential for injuries, and automating the process through hydraulics requires extra equipment and often gets messy. One often-overlooked tool — a force multiplying pneumatic cylinder — offers a cleaner, more efficient and economical option.
Not only does a force multiplier-type air cylinder deliver impressive thrust output, it offers the advantages of pneumatic technology, such as:
- A simple, compact design, with less infrastructure and fewer moving parts than hydraulic solutions.
- Clean operation, with no messy fluids that need changing.
- Cost-effectiveness, thanks to lower maintenance requirements.
- Safety, without fluids that may leak or catch fire.
Fabco-Air’s Multi-Power® air cylinder is an example of a force-multiplier that provides extreme thrust. Multiple pistons attach to a common shaft with an internal air passage to all the pistons. In combination, the pistons create a larger surface area for the air pressure to act upon without increasing the cylinder’s bore size or adding air pressure. That means the cylinders produce an extraordinary amount of thrust in the smallest footprint possible. At 90 psi, for example, a Multi-Power air cylinder can deliver 39,843 pounds of force. Even higher forces can be achieved depending on the bore size and psi.
Our white paper, Using Force-Multiplying Pneumatic Cylinders in Rivet, Hole Punch and Broaching Applications, explains how to achieve your force requirements using a Multi-Power cylinder and how to apply the Multi-Power principle to other devices. It also presents Multi-Power cylinder use cases such as upset riveting and punching holes in laminations.
