Industry Pioneer Publishers Primer on Bearing Isolators
Eliminate Root Cause Of Equipment Failure, Cut Maintenance Costs In Half Details The Evolution Of The Bearing Isolator Authored By Product Inventor In Easy To Understand Language Shows How Outdated Sealing Methods Such As Contact Seals, Cost Money Details How To Dramatically Increase Productivity And Reliability
Rock Island (PRWEB) July 12, 2004 -- David C. Orlowski, inventor of the
bearing isolator (patent # 4,022,479), founder and past president of Inpro/Seal
Company has authored a primer on bearing isolation. The four page literature,
entitled, Bearing Isolators 101 - What The Heck Is A Bearing Isolator, is part
of a major investment by Inpro/Seal Company to inform end users how, bearing
isolators eliminate the root cause of rotating and related equipment failure -
moisture, dirt and abrasives contaminating the bearing environment.
It
should prove of value to anyone involved in the management, maintenance, repair
and operations (MRO) of motors, machine tool spindles, turbines, fans, gear
boxes, paper machine rolls, pumps and other types of rotating equipment used in
industrial/process plants.
According to Orlowski, "Even though Inpro/Seal
has been designing, manufacturing and marketing bearing isolators for over 27
years, we never stop developing ways to help companies increase productivity and
improve their bottom line at the same time. In order to grow and develop new
products, end user feedback is most important to us."
Orlowski
continued, "With this in mind, last year we conducted extensive research on a
market-by-market, application-by-application basis. After the results were
tabulated, we found that people want to know more about bearing isolators.
Whether they used bearing isolators or not, whether or not they read our
literature or advertising messages, the majority of the respondents stated that
they wanted to know more into the basics of the product. As a direct result, I
authored this primer."
What makes this reference unique is that it was
written by the inventor of the product in his own words that contain important
and useful information on how the bearing isolator evolved over the past 27
years.
Information includes: how (and why) the bearing isolator was
invented; how it works; growth and development; contact and non-contact sealing
methods; low power consumption; costs; maintenance; configurations and much
more.
A bearing isolator is a non-contact, non-wearing, permanent bearing
protection device. It has a rotor and a stator, and the two are unitized, so
that they don’t separate from one another while in use. Typically, the rotor
turns with a rotating shaft, while the stator is pressed into a bearing housing.
The two components interact to keep contamination out of the bearing enclosure
and the lubricant in.
Protected bearings have proven to run 50,000 hours
(5.7 years) or more, eliminating the need for continual maintenance and repair.
Documented cases show that a plant can more than double the mean-time-between
failure (MTBF) and reduce maintenance costs by at least half, with users
reporting an extremely high Return On Investment (ROI).
Over one million
of Inpro's original bearing isolator designs are in operation in process plants
worldwide, where end users continue to report significantly reduced operating
costs with increased productivity and reliability. Bearing isolators are
installed by OEM's, retrofitted on existing equipment or specified by end users.
Recent developments include: the only product that protects rolling
element bearings on paper machines from the wet end to the dry end; IEEE motors
that use bearing isolators as part of their specification and the standard for
bearing protection; the VBX-H Series that protects machine tool spindle bearings
from coolant, chips, humidity and heat; and the Air Mizer™- PS a dry sealing
system provides a positive seal in applications were dry particulates, powders
and bulk solids are handled, processed, packaged and stored.
Inpro/Seal
Company is the originator and the number one manufacturer of bearing isolators,
used to protect motor and pump bearings, machine tool spindles, turbines, fans,
gear boxes, paper machine rolls and many other types of rotating equipment.
Additional applications include the handling, processing, packing and storage of
dry particulates, powders and bulk solids.
As the recognized global
leader in bearing isolator technology, Inpro products are marketed to the
petroleum, refining, nuclear, power generation, metalworking, food processing,
grain processing, chemical, water, wastewater treatment,
metalworking,
automotive, hydrocarbon processing, HVAC, pulp and paper, mining, mineral, ore
processing and general industrial markets.
For a Free copy of Bearing
Isolators 101 - What The Heck Is A Bearing Isolator, contact: Inpro/Seal
Company, P.O. Box 3940, Rock Island, Illinois 61204. Phone numbers are: (800)
447-0524 or (309) 787-4971. Fax number is: (309) 787-6114. Website: www.inpro-seal.com.
From:
The Mark Baker Company Inpro/Seal
Company
4124 Quebec Avenue N P.O. Box 3940
Minneapolis,
MN 55427 Rock Island, IL 61204
Mark
Baker (763) 573-7540
David C Orlowski (309)
787-4971
(800) 447-0524
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