Muffling Noise With Anti-vibration Mounts And Rubber Buffers

By Author: John Deangelis
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Noise pollution is an insidious enemy because we often fail to recognize when noise levels have reached unacceptable highs. While many transporters use rubber buffers and loading bays to prevent damage to goods during loading and unloading, few do so to muffle sounds. Yet, when you come to think about it the sheer racket caused by packages hitting the ground and/or truck bottom can be quite distressing to someone who is sensitive to sound.
A major culprit in this matter is vibration. Whether it is parts of a machine vibrating enough to create a jarring noise or some other vibration caused by running a generator, one way of muffling the sound is to use anti vibration mounts. You'll need to know more about the forces at work in your application to choose the right control solution. For example, some designs are good for withstanding compression, while others are better at withstanding and dampening shearing. Others can work well for both.
Using the right design for the anti vibration mounts is vital ...
... - cylindrical, compression, pads, strips, square mounts, conical mounts, plate mounts and grommets all offer noise control and vibration dampening, but work in different ways. There is a standard range of pedestal anti vibration mounts for general industrial uses covering a range of 7-150kg and which can be used at frequencies down to 900rpm.
Clifton Rubber Co. Ltd is one of the UK's leading manufacturers of loading bay / dock buffers supplying their products to the European and global markets. A standard range of polyurethane blocks are on offer but they can also design and manufacture blocks and buffers to suit a customer's specific requirements. They design and manufacture polyurethane dock buffers which can last up to 10 times longer than standard rubber buffers. The dock buffers can be manufactured in Hi-visible yellow or black polyurethane. Like any top class company they pride themselves on providing high quality products to their customers.

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Clifton Rubber has been in the past years been a prime name in delivering services and rubber products such as rubber gaskets, dock bumpers, anti vibration mounts, loading bays, rubber moldings, cnc milling etc.