Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
uniplat
English translation:
single flat
Added to glossary by
Fiona McBrearty
Oct 31, 2007 14:11
16 yrs ago
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French term
uniplat
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Metallurgy / Casting
Rouleaux acier galvanisé
Conçus pour un vaste champ d'applications pour des charges isolées de faible et moyenne importance. Conception permettant l'évacuation de toute charge électrostatique.
Rouleaux par gravité tout acier. équipés de roulements à billes à haut coefficient de roulement ne nécessitant aucun entretien. Finition esthétique et anticorrosive du tube (galvanisation).
Option, axes spéciaux :
- axe méplaté coulissant avec épaisseur **uniplat** de 7 mm et longueur 10 mm. Ne concerne que les axes de ø 10 et 12 mm.
Conçus pour un vaste champ d'applications pour des charges isolées de faible et moyenne importance. Conception permettant l'évacuation de toute charge électrostatique.
Rouleaux par gravité tout acier. équipés de roulements à billes à haut coefficient de roulement ne nécessitant aucun entretien. Finition esthétique et anticorrosive du tube (galvanisation).
Option, axes spéciaux :
- axe méplaté coulissant avec épaisseur **uniplat** de 7 mm et longueur 10 mm. Ne concerne que les axes de ø 10 et 12 mm.
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single flat
Reading between the lines, and adding the lines about the threaded and pinned options, I take it the rods onto which the rollers and their bearings are fitted are designed not to turn. A single flat mating with an appropriately shaped hole in the frame into which the rods are fitted would achieve this. Presumably some people would have the ends of the rods with multiple flats to diminish the likelihood of wear inducing rotation of the rods and inducing even more wear ...
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Note added at 2 days17 mins (2007-11-02 14:29:21 GMT)
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I shouldn't think that in this application there would be rods DESIGNED to turn, but there might be that are NOT designed NOT to turn ... If the rods turn, as I said, the metal would wear. Ideally the rods are fixed and any rotary movement takes place in the bearings fixed to the rods.
Re. "double méplat", it would be a rod end with two diametrically opposite flats. "quadruple méplat", for example, would therefore have four flats forming the sides of a truncated square, or possible a whole square.
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Note added at 2 days17 mins (2007-11-02 14:29:21 GMT)
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I shouldn't think that in this application there would be rods DESIGNED to turn, but there might be that are NOT designed NOT to turn ... If the rods turn, as I said, the metal would wear. Ideally the rods are fixed and any rotary movement takes place in the bearings fixed to the rods.
Re. "double méplat", it would be a rod end with two diametrically opposite flats. "quadruple méplat", for example, would therefore have four flats forming the sides of a truncated square, or possible a whole square.
Note from asker:
| Really, I have no idea. Why, could there be rods that ARE designed to turn? |
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Comment: "OK, I take your word for it! Thanks."
Discussion
Rouleaux étanches tube acier galvanisé
Livré en standard avec axe non coulissant ø 15 mm. Traversant terminé à chaque bout par un **double méplat** débouchant dim. 10 x 10 mm.
Can you see any link between "uniplat" and "double méplat"?