August 18, 2020 by Hunter Johansen, Design Technician

United Equipment Accessories (UEA) designs each slip ring to meet the unique demands of the application. One of the many custom specifications that UEA can accommodate is the addition of an air swivel to the slip ring. Adding an air swivel allows the customer to run an air hose on each end of the slip ring without worrying about the hose getting tangled during operation. This slip ring add-on has proven to be beneficial for the following applications: pallet wrappers, packaging machinery, machine shops, assembly lines, and applications in automation. 

Most commonly, the slip ring with an air swivel is designed with a threaded steel pipe that runs through the center of the swivel from the bottom of the mounting tube out through the cover. In prewired slip rings, we build the portion of the center harness that passes through the slip ring around a plastic tube. This allows us to evenly spread out the wires in the center harness around the steel pipe during assembly. Read more.