Cone Compression Spring

Helical compression is the most common metal spring configuration.

Cone compression spring.

These stock conical tapered springs are made this way to provide stability when a regular compression spring buckles or bends. Use precision compression springs and conical compression springs in mechanical applications like welding valve and pipe fitting and automotive engine systems. Known for their shape tapered springs are more laterally stable and less liable to buckle than regular compression springs. The improved solid height is achieved by nesting the active coils within each other during compression.

To provide stability and or reduce solid height in the case of these barrel or barbell springs they will give your long compression spring the stability it needs and give you a bit more space as opposed to a conical spring that ll need a larger outer diameter on the. A die spring is commonly used in clutches brakes and other heavy machinery applications. Stock conical tapered springs are also used to provide more travel. These springs are cone shaped to provide significantly more travel than traditional compression springs by lowering the solid height.

Conical springs are commonly used in electrical contacts. Double cone springs are also known as barrel or barbell springs they are used for the same reason you use a conical spring. Ajax makes a variety of compression springs including cone double cone springs. Conical compression springs are cone shaped springs designed to provide a near constant spring rate and a solid height lower than a normal spring.

Each spring features a variable pitch to achieve the constant spring rate and coils which nest during deflection to provide a solid height approximately equal to two wire diameters. Metric color coded die springs. Also known as tapered springs. Century spring stocks a large selection of conically tapered compression springs.

Selection includes standard tapered and constant rate tapered springs. Colors and sizes follow iso 10243 for metric die springs. Compression springs are open coil helical springs wound or constructed to oppose compression along the axis of wind. Stock up on compression and die springs from grainger in the types and sizes you need.

Learn more about compression springs. Compression springs usually have a cylindrical shape with a constant diameter but they can also be conical barrel shaped hourglass shaped or a combination of these. Flanges on the ends of these springs provide a flat mounting surface. Compression springs are used for automotive aerospace consumer goods.