Opening and safely closing a heavy lid made easy thanks to pull-type gas springs

Pull-type gas springs on a drying centrifuge at ASTOR-Berning

The company ASTOR-Berning has been active for over 100 years as an international specialist for upholstered buttons, buckles, belts and badges.

In order to remain competitive in this field at its German location, they require both a specialized product range and state-of-the-art machinery, tools and equipment to manufacture of these products at the highest level. This also includes a centrifuge for drying the small galvanically-treated metal parts.

Without gas springs, a lot of force would be required to open and close the lid

The risk that the lid would not remain in the open position but would fall shut again would be very high.

Closing the lid would also require force to prevent it from falling down, i.e. without pull-type gas springs there would be a considerable risk of accidents, the time required for opening and closing would be considerably higher, which would increase production costs again and the risk of damage to the centrifuge due to improper operation of the lid is also not to be ignored.

The cover can be operated conveniently and safely thanks to pull-type gas springs

Due to lack of space, it would not have been possible to meet these requirements with push-type gas springs. Therefore, DICTATOR pull-type gas springs needed to be used on the centrifuge. These open the centrifuge lid and prevent it from falling uncontrollably when closing. The pull-type gas springs have thus become an important helper in production. To ensure that the best possible result is always achieved, DICTATOR calculates the exact gas spring required and its fixing points, even for a single unit and of course free of charge.