Friction cups offer improved level compensation performance

Piab has introduced the BXF family of 36 friction cups, available in four sizes and featuring additional bellows. According to the company, the cups offer improved level compensation performance, making them easy to program for destacking applications in which rack positions of sheets or other objects might vary slightly.

The bellows make the friction cups very forgiving when they pick objects, allowing for the variations often seen in autoracking applications. They eliminate the need for spring brackets/plungers to be fitted on ejectors or robot end-of-arm tools.