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A monarch butterfly with a 90mm wingspan seems larger than life when it alights upon the smooth stainless steel and anodized aluminum surfaces of the compact GramForce gripper. With the sleek, new GramForce gripper, you'll find all the features you'd expectto find in Airpot's family of Accurate Force Pneumatic products—and then some. At every turn, expect minute friction levels that assure uncompromising force accuracy. With wide operating temperature ranges. And repeatability you can depend on, time after time, for millions of times. Lubrication? Never! A mere 205 grams total mass keeps this gripper light on its feet. Its stainless steel mounting blocks accommodate finger lengths up to 75 mm. And combined with its synchronous and parallel design, it is counterbalanced to provide unchanging gripping force in any mounting orientation: It's a versatile gripper like no other. So, in short, we've gone to great lengths to design the GramForce gripperforyourmostexacting applications— powerfully tough on the inside, but with a grip as gentle as the flutter of a butterfly's wings. Whetherthe parts you need to work with are exceedingly fragile, soft, delicate, or sensitive, you'll see they can now be accurately and safely grasped, held, or positioned with this impressively adroit gripper. It's ideal for precision assembly equipment, test and measurement devices, robotic arm end-effectors, small parts handling, and the most delicate of machining operations you can think up. What’s in it for you? Inside the Airpot®GramForce gripper/see below) you'll find it is driven by two tiny 5.6mm bore, ultra-low friction pneumatic Airpot actuators, enhanced with our Airpel® Plus technology. If that doesn't catch your attention, the carriage blocks mounted on an IKO*precision stainless steel rail will. Along with its ability to operate at pressures from 0.02 MPa to 0.7 MPa—all while providing precise holding forces as low as 0.25 N up to a heftier 8.6 N. Are you operating in a clean environment? It will be right at home. Plus, the light-weight compact design saves space while allowing easy mounting from the bottom or either side. The versatile finger mounting blocks make it a snap to attach holding jaws of your own design. So, there really is a lot in this gripper for you! Like the migrating monarch, let your design imagination take flight: you'll discover little that is too small or too delicate forthe Airpot GramForce gripperto handle— whateveryour most demanding designs may be. When the going gets delicate, designers get GramForce. ACCURATE FORCE PNEUMATICS bmmforce.•^g ripper Airpot9 and Airpel are registered trademarks of Airpot Corp. *IKO is a registered trademark of Thompson Nippon Co., Ltd.

ACCURATE FORCE PNEUMATICS GramForce" Gripper Specifications The GramForce: synchronous, parallel, piston actuated Stroke Effective piston area 12.3 mm2 Gripping force Fas a function of supply pressure P F=Px12.3 N (unit for supply pressure P is MPa) F = P x 1250 gf Maximum gripping force Minimum gripping force Maximum friction force Ff as a function of gripping force F Ff = F x 0.015 +0.15 N (unit for gripping force F is Newtons) Ff = Fx 1.5 + 15 gf _Cycle life _Cycle rate Max leak rate when supplied with 0.34 MPa standard L/min _Recommended maximum finger...