Flat Springs
- Short order specialists
- Hand tooling for low cost small quantity and Research and Development
- Many sizes and types of material on hand
- In-House hardening and tempering
- In-House deburring
- Automated flat spring forming abilities
Flat Springs Overview
A flat spring is really any spring made out of flat material rather than round spring wire. The most commonly known flat spring is really a wave washer that is found inside the temperature setting mechanism of your oven. A wave washer or flat spring exists inside the mechanism, and it is the attribute that requires you to push in on the oven button before turning it to the desired temperature. Then when you are through with the oven, the flat spring snaps the button back out to its original position
Flat Spring Specifications
Material Thickness: .002" to .062"
Material Width:3/32" to 6.00"
Configurations: Limitless
Material: Over 35 alloys, such as: Alloy Steel, Carbon Steel, 300 Series Stainless, 400 Series Stainless, Elgiloy(R), Phosphor Bronze, Beryllium Copper, Chrome Silicon, Chrome Vanadium, Inconel(R).
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Flat Spring Applications
Flat springs are used in a variety of applications, as above in the traditional "oven button" type of application as well as in the constant force mechanism of a pull-start lawn mower. Hardware Products's most notable flat spring application story has to do with the stethoscope and WWII. View our Case Studies page to learn more about this part of our history.
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- Valve & Pipe Fittings
- Surgical & Medical Instruments
- Railroad Equipment Manufacturers
- Electronic Connector Manufacturers
- Electronic Components NEC
- Lamp Manufacturers Electric
- Industrial Valves
- Gaskets, Packets & Sealings
- Wiring Devices-Cur. Carrying
- Compressor Manufacturers, Air & Gas
- Measurement & Control Development
- Environmental Control Manufacturers
- Manufacturing Industries NEC
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- Steel Springs except Wire
- Machinery Non-Electrical NEC
- Welding Apparatus
- Mills, Drawing & Insulating
- Industrial Machine Equipment Dealers
- Industrial Supply Whls.
- Switchgear & Switchboard Apparatus
- Steel Spring Manufacturers
- Measurement & Control Development Manufacturers
- Printing Trades machinery
- Oil Field Machine Manufacturers
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Custom Flat Spring Design
Hardware Products will be glad to assist you in the design of your flat springs. We do not pretend to know your application and all final decisions are yours, but we will be happy to listen to what you say, enter your parameters into our official Spring Manufacturer's Institute spring design program and then send you a print out for your approval.
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