Cylindrical hinge bearings

The Cernoflon series is a line of structural cylindrical bearings that generally allow rotations of ±3° around only one horizontal axis. Inside the bearing there are two different sliding surfaces made of either stainless or hard-chromium plated steel, which make contact with the PTFE: one surface is cylindrical to make rotations possible, and the other is flat (absent in fixed-type bearings), to allow translation movements. Horizontal loads perpendicular to the rotation axis are conveyed through the cylindrical sliding surface the concavity of which is dimensioned accordingly. The use of Cernoflon bearings is recommended whenever a high degree of stiffness against transverse rotations is considered necessary, a characteristic also typical of the Rockflon series. Their elongated rectangular shape along the rotation axis is especially suitable if there is limited space available in the perpendicular direction to the rotation axis. By virtue of the particular dielectric characteristics