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Light duty casters can handle weight loads under 500 lbs. Whether you're looking to move materials in healthcare or medical, pharmaceuticals, furniture/fixtures/displays, in office space or another industry, light duty caster has the perfect caster solution for you.
First, you get a much quieter working environment. Most ergonomic light duty caster are made from sound-dampening materials or are designed to minimize noise.A quieter working environment benefits your employees and business in many ways. When you have a loud working environment, your employees are more stressed, tired, and possibly even injured.Hearing loss is an incredibly serious injury and can add to the anxiety that an employee feels at work.When employees work in a loud working environment, they have lower productivity and lack focus.
The most obvious benefit from ergonomic light duty caster is that your employees, and possibly you, injure themselves much less frequently.This is because the carts are substantially easier to push. This is important because the lower back has fewer pain receptors than other parts of the body.That means that you often injure yourself but only later realize that you have injured yourself. The easier your cart rolls, the less likely you are to injure yourself.Besides the many benefits this offers your company, by using ergonomic casters, you are protecting the health and well-being of a real human being. An injury to anyone can affect them and their family on a very deep level.
We stock a range of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty casters ideal for a wide range of applications.
The next machining process on the production of light duty caster wheels is the extrusion of the wheel material. To make the wheels, nylon inserts are required. The inserts are placed in an injection molding press, which melt neoprene rubber and injects it into the mold. Once it cools to a solid state, the machine ejects rubber edged wheels. The rubber edge absorbs shock, reduces noise, and prevents damage to the floor or surface.For bigger sized wheels, a different molding press is used to suit the required size. The molding process to produce the wheel is the same. These larger molding press machines usually make one wheel at a time. After the wheel is ejected from the molding press it is placed on a cool down rack for 2 and a half hours. The wheel mold is made up of two parts, which form a sim once attached. The rubber sim is then grinded down until the surface is smooth.
Soft treaded caster wheels are ideal for offering a comfortable ride while also safeguarding delicate floor surfaces. They are chemical, oil, and acid resistant because they are composed of thermoplastic and mold-on rubber. While a soft tread allows wheels to roll over small debris and is usually quieter than other materials, it also makes it more difficult to roll and reduces the caster's overall load capacity. Thermoplastic rubber, rubber tread on iron core, and polyurethane tread on plastic core are all common soft tread caster wheels. The soft tread wheels are typically applied in medical and pharmaceutical equipment. They are also applied in food service equipment, processing plants, and other light to medium loads.
Soft tread wheels are more difficult to roll than polyurethane tread wheels, though they provide good floor protection. These wheels are made of solid urethane, chemically or mechanically bonded to plastic, or chemically bonded to cast iron or aluminum cores, and have a 3,000-pound capacity and strong impact resistance. One downside of poly wheels is that if the wheel is overloaded or the tread sustains other damage that undermines its construction, the tread can separate from the core. However, solid urethane wheels are one approach to prevent these issues. The concern of tread separation and core corrosion is minimized because the entire wheel is made of molded urethane with no core.
Synthetic wheels with a harder tread have a lower rolling resistance and a higher impact strength and reliability. Solid elastomer, polypropylene or polyolefin, fiberglass reinforced polypropylene, phenolic, and solid nylon synthetic wheels all fall under this type of caster wheel. While most synthetic wheels are ideal for high-impact and harsh situations, they are louder than softer materials and are less forgiving when colliding with debris. Phenolic wheels, which are made of phenolic resin and macerated canvas, are a frequent choice for push pull applications. Phenolic wheels are strong and resist grease and other chemicals, making mobility easier. Some synthetic tread materials cannot be used in wet areas, therefore knowing where the wheels will be used is critical when choosing a synthetic tread material.
The extra thick, perfectly molded gray rubber tread is chemically bonded to an aluminum core for remarkable robustness and movement on these wheels. On rough surfaces, these wheels give a quiet, cushioned ride. These non-marking, non-conductive wheels provide exceptional floor protection.
How To Choose Between Heavy-, Medium-, And Light-Duty Casters
First, you will need to know the different weight ratings for each grade of caster. Light duty caster are rated for loads of up to 500 lbs, medium-duty for loads of 501 to 2,000 lbs, and heavy-duty for loads of more than 2,000 lbs.
Next, you need to understand what the weight ratings mean. The rating is for each individual caster, not each set of casters. In other words, each of the light-duty casters on a cart is rated to hold up to 500 lbs. This will affect your calculations, as we'll explain below.
To determine what kind of casters you need, first take the weight of the load you need them to carry, then add the weight of the cart itself. Then multiply that total by 1.3-1.5 to create a safety margin. Then divide that total by the number of casters on your cart to figure out which type you will need. For example, if you need to move a 1000-pound load on a cart with four casters, light-duty casters will be fine, because 1000 divided by 4 is only 250, which is well below the threshold. (And even with a safety margin of 50% extra weight, which comes to 1,500 pounds, the average is still just 325, still below the limit.)
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Light-duty casters
Casters with a light-duty rating, as the name implies, are engineered to transport relatively light loads, typically up to 450-500 pounds. These casters are generally used for applications such as furniture dollies, hotel racks and carts, food service racks, shopping carts, cargo conveyors, and pharmaceutical, laboratory and institutional equipment, among others.
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Medium-duty casters
When a caster is rated medium duty, it is engineered to carry weights from 500 to 1,500 pounds. This class of caster rises to the demands of hotel luggage carts, food-service equipment, hospital beds, laundry carts, scaffolding, waste disposal trucks, and pharmaceutical equipment.
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Heavy-duty casters
When you need to roll a significant amount of weight, it's best to go with heavy-duty casters. Most heavy-duty casters can handle weights anywhere from 1,500 to up to 20,000 pounds, depending on the caster. These casters are designed to help you move heavy loads without damaging the supporting equipment.
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