Strip brushes are one of the most universal brushes which are used in a wide range of fields for sweeping, conveying, sealing and others. They have a base that can be wooden or plastic or metallic and the filaments on the base can also be nylon, polypropylene or boar bristles. For this reason, strip brushes have flexibility that makes it possible to have filaments lie close to curved, angled or irregular surfaces. Now, let me introduce strip brushes and its parts and materials used in making strip brushes, types and profile of the strip brush and its usage in several sectors.
What Are Strip Brushes?
A strip brush can also be defined by base material to which the flexible strip or filaments are attached along the whole length of the brush strip. The base also referred to as the substrate forms the foundation of the structure. It is the attached strips that provides the brushing, wiping, sealing, conduction or any other function which is needed in that particular application. This is so because the strips are correctly arranged in such a way that no part of the brush contact area or efficiency is affected. The terms with relation to this line up of bristles or strips are strip brush or smoother / wiper strip.
Strip brushes feature three main components:
Base/Substrate: Ordinarily of wooden, plastic or metal. Helps in joining the flexible strips as a way of adjusting it on the vehicle being followed.
Strips/Filaments: The things with them are Nylon, polypropylene, boar hair felt fabrics etc. of these strips make contact for cleaning wiping, etc…
Attachment Method: They can be connected to the base through joining, for example, by stapling or gluing, by being inserted, crimped or fused. The method is comprised of the four units of materials and brush.
The common forms of cross-sectional strips of strip brushes include rectangular, convex as well as concave forms. The base thickness, strip length and the material of the strip and size of the brush strips can be changed to suit a particular application.
These are the following major types of strip brushes:
These are the following major types of strip brushes:
There are several main types of strip brushes, differentiated by their materials and intended uses:
Cleaning/Sweeping Brushes: Adaptable for collecting of debris, particle, dust and etc using staple-set boar bristles or synthetic filaments.
Sealing/Wiping Brushes: A flexible plastic, nylon or urethane type which has a facility of adjustment to fit the gaps or scrubbing action on the surfaces.
Conductive Brushes: In electrostatic applications carbon or metal filaments transmit electric currents.
Material Handling Brushes: To use angled / profiled nylon/ plastic strips to help in the pushing/steering or positioning of the materials.
Common Industrial Applications
Strip brushes have many uses across general and specialty industry sectors:Strip brushes have many uses across general and specialty industry sectors:
Agriculture & Food Processing: Wash bright ripe harvested fruits, clean the area and tools which were involved in packing, put sealed hygienic containers.
Automotive Manufacturing: Die debris Removal from stamping die, electrical contacts and bonding, windshield/ windows cleaning
Aerospace: Minimise or eliminate FOD (foreign object debris), direct hydraulic fluids, discharge static
Printing Industry: Synchronize paper guides, cleaning rollers and blankets and sweeping cut paper / labels
Woodworking: times3; Remove unwanted wood shavings, apply adhesive, smoothen the wood.
Machine & Component Manufacturing: Seal machined parts conductive material touching cables/housings and remove the static electricity.
Medical & Clean rooms: Removal of particles by wiping on precised equipments, clean room garments.
Conclusion
These brushes can provide certain performances characteristics resulting from the construction of having flexible strips originating from the base substrate. This makes it possible for them to hug inequality and angle area such as other solid brushes cannot do that. Depending on the type of materials that is to be used in manufacturing the strip brushes, the strip brushes can be used in cleaning, sealing, wiping, and material handling tasks. They include use in sensitive equipment like the ones used in surgeries, in manufacturing industries and industries that handle machinery. Strip brushes are highly applicable in all industries today as an essential part of brushes and will continue to do more for the processes of industries in the future.
Here we have one company that is called Bolex Industrial Brushes Co. , Ltd which is located in Guangzhou and this company is involved in the manufacture of different types of industrial brushes. We are a company which was founded in 2011, we have our dedicated employees and we employ advanced equipment and techniques in the production of the brushes. Our product line includes twisted wire brushes, tube cleaning brushes, spiral brushes Strip Brushes and many others. It is our goal to constantly enhance the operation of our technology of manufacture and development of new industrial brush products.
