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Ruland has expanded its line of adjustable components to include star knobs and adjustable clamping handles.

Ruland Manufacturing now supplies a wide selection of vibration isolation mounts and rubber bumpers for use in packaging, conveyors, food processing, and other industrial equipment.

Ruland beam couplings are designed to couple stepper and servo motors to encoders, lead screws, and light duty actuators in a variety of industries.

Ruland's Oldham couplings are zero-backlash, have a balanced design for reduced vibration, accommodate large parallel misalignment, and are thus suitable for precise positioning and general industrial conveyor systems.

Ruland offers zero-backlash oldham couplings that accommodate high amounts of parallel misalignment with low bearing loads. The balanced design also reduces vibration at higher speeds.

Ruland offers zero backlash jaw couplings for the demanding requirements of start and stop machine vision systems. The dampening characteristics of Ruland’s jaw couplings reduce settling time and shock loads, making them ideal for these environments. The jaw couplings are a three piece design comprised of two aluminum hubs and an elastomer element called the 'spider'.

Ruland offers miniature rigid couplings for a wide variety of medical devices, including test and measurement systems, imaging, patient positioning, and liquid handling such as chromatography. Rigid couplings are zero-backlash, torsionally stiff, and have high torque capacity. They should be used when shaft misalignment is neither present nor desired, with the rigid coupling often used to help establish the alignment.