Industries That Use Hydraulic Systems

If your industry applications that use hydraulics do not have positive safety locks in place, you need to get them as soon as possible to protect your employees. The hydraulic press safety locks for sale from York Precision Machining & Hydraulics are the only ones you'll ever need for several reasons.

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For those seeking hydraulic systems for aerospace, defense, oil & gas, or any industry where safety is crucial, York Precision offers the Bear-Loc® system exclusively. The Bear-Loc® system is a proprietary safe positive locking system you can position anywhere along the stroke of the actuator rod. It is unique because it instantly locks into place the moment hydraulic pressure is lost.

If there's an unexpected hydraulic pressure loss, the system locks instantly, protecting your workers and equipment from accidents. As soon as hydraulic pressure is reapplied, you can move the Bear-Loc® wherever you need it. We can sell you a hydraulic actuator with Bear-Loc® already installed or provide the Bear-Loc® separately, as it easily attaches to existing products via eye or flange mount. Heavy flange, trunnion, foot, and extended tie rod mounting configurations are also available.

Machine press using a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force

A hydraulic press is a machine press using a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force. It utilizes the hydraulic equivalent of a mechanical lever and is also known as a Bramah press, named after its inventor, Joseph Bramah, of England. He invented and patented this press in 1795. As Bramah, who is also known for developing the flush toilet, installed toilets, he studied existing literature on fluid motion and applied this knowledge to develop the press.

Main Principle

The hydraulic press relies on Pascal's principle. The pressure throughout a closed system is constant. One part of the system is a piston acting as a pump, with a modest mechanical force acting on a small cross-sectional area. The other part is a piston with a larger area that generates a correspondingly large mechanical force. Only small-diameter tubing, which more easily resists pressure, is needed if the pump is separated from the press cylinder.

Application

Hydraulic presses are commonly used for the assembly and disassembly of tightly fitting components. In manufacturing, they are used for forging, clinching, molding, blanking, punching, deep drawing, and metal forming operations. Hydraulic presses are also used for stretch forming, rubber pad forming, and powder compacting. The hydraulic press is advantageous in manufacturing due to its ability to create more intricate shapes and its material economy. A hydraulic press takes up less space compared to a mechanical press of the same capability.

In geology, a tungsten carbide-coated hydraulic press is used in the rock crushing stage of preparing samples for geochemical analyses in topics such as understanding the origins of volcanism.

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In Popular Culture

The room featured in Fermat's Room has a design similar to that of a hydraulic press. Boris Artzybasheff also created a drawing of a hydraulic press, in which the press was shaped like a robot.

In 2015, the Hydraulic Press Channel, a YouTube channel dedicated to crushing objects with a hydraulic press, was created by Lauri Vuohensilta, a factory owner from Tampere, Finland. The Hydraulic Press Channel has since grown to over 9 million subscribers on YouTube. There are numerous other YouTube channels that publish videos involving hydraulic presses crushing various items, such as bowling balls, soda cans, plastic toys, and metal tools.

A hydraulic press features prominently in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb".