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The applications of foam edge protectors are vast and varied. In the shipping and logistics sectors, they are essential for protecting goods during transit. Sharp corners and edges can easily lead to damage, causing costly returns or replacements. By using foam edge protectors, companies can enhance their packaging strategies, ensuring that products arrive at their destinations in pristine condition.

1. Standard Rubber Seals

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4. Noise Reduction While not primarily designed for this purpose, rubber seals can also reduce noise infiltration from outside. They create a tighter seal that can diminish the sounds of traffic, lawnmowers, and other disturbances, contributing to a more peaceful home atmosphere.

O-Rings

Oil seals operate by creating a tight barrier between two moving or stationary parts, such as a shaft and housing, to prevent oil from escaping and contaminants from entering the system. This is essential for maintaining the efficiency and performance of the machinery, as well as preventing potential safety hazards.

The seal shown in Fig. 14.2 is a relatively simple design; most automotive seals are more complex. Dust lips are often used to keep outside contaminants away from the oil lip seals; such seals thus have undercuts that make demolding more difficult. Fluoroelastomer compounds used for such undercut shapes must have reasonably high elongation at break at molding temperatures to avoid tearing the part during demolding. The metal insert is often U-shaped, and stock may be molded to form a thin layer over the outside of the insert. Since both compression and injection molding methods are used, suppliers of fluoroelastomers for shaft-seal applications often must provide different versions of the same polymer composition-medium to high viscosity for compression molding, and low to medium viscosity for injection molding. Different precompounds may be necessary to accommodate relatively long compression-molding times at low temperature and very short injection-molding times at high temperature.

The hardness of the shaft determines how long the seal will last. A shaft should have a Rockwell hardness of 30 or more. It prevents the seal from getting damaged when it’s exposed to abrasive agents.