PBC Linear's New Low-Profile Uni-Guide

PBC Linear brings in a new solution to low profiletasks and applications: the Low Profile Uni-Guide (UGA). A economical expansionof the popular Uni-Guide family, the UGA allocates the performance advantagesof the larger designs - self-lubricating, maintenance-free, easy assembly - intoa compact, 24 mm profile for smooth, reliable and long-lasting linear motion inprint/scan, food processing and machine tool applications.

The Uni-Guide family utilizes the proven planebearing technology of Simplicity^(R), which allows the carriage to glide smoothlyalong the slide. The proprietary Frelon liner ensures safe travel over dirt,dust, grime and other particulates without damaging the rail or carriage.Maintenance-free and self-lubricating, the Uni-Guide products require noadditional grease or oil and thrive in applications where contamination must beprevented: food processing, lab automation and medical equipment.

Comprised of a simple, two-piece rail and carriageassembly, Uni-Guide products facilitate quick system integration without themounting components and alignment necessitated by other linear slide products.These competing products, such as re-circulating ball or polymer insert linearslides, use assemblies with multiple rails and components, and requirepainstaking alignment to ensure uniform parallelism across all assembled railsand carriages. The Uni-Guide family promotes ease of installation by machiningtwo parallel rails in one profile. The one-piece carriage design alsosimplifies assembly by directly fitting onto the rail without fasteners - savingthe end user on cost and reducing tolerance stack-up.

To ensure precision tolerances are maintained, therail and carriage of the Low Profile Uni-Guide are machined by our patent-pendingSIMO^(R) process. SIMO uses a synchronized tooling system to mill all criticaledges concurrently - creating consistently tight tolerances that hold withinA plus or minus 0.001 inch (0.025 mm) for assured high accuracy travel.

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