Pick up long, narrow items in your sanitary facility with these cups—they connect to threaded fittings on your vacuum system. The oblong cups grip evenly across objects to lift without bending them. Their bellows compress as they contact an item, giving them a better hold than flat cups. Made from FDA-compliant silicone, they're safe for direct contact with food.

To make cleaning easier, the cup and the fitting are a single piece without crevices or tight angles where bacteria can grow. The fittings are stainless steel, so they won't corrode from the harsh cleaning agents used during washdowns.

Blue cups are easy to spot and remove if they fall into your line. They also have a metal additive that will set off metal detectors, helping to keep contaminated food from leaving your facility. These cups help you comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs for food safety.

Warning: Never use to lift people or items over people.

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Connect these cups to your vacuum system to pick up bread, pastries, and other soft material. They have more bellows than other vacuum cups to gently compress onto delicate, spongy objects. They're easy to clean and don't have pits, crevices, or tight angles where bacteria can hide. Made from FDA-compliant silicone, these cups are safe for direct contact with food.

These cups help you comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs to keep contaminated food from leaving your facility. All nonmetal parts have a metal additive that sets off metal detectors if they fall into your line. They're also blue, so they're easy to find and remove.

Cups with a plastic fitting are lighter than stainless steel fittings, so they won't weigh down your robot arm. However, they are not as strong or corrosion resistant as stainless steel. Cups with a stainless steel fitting won't corrode from the harsh cleaning agents used in washdown applications. They're stronger than plastic fittings, but they're also heavier.

Cups with a retainer clip are often used in industrial bakeries, where multiple cups are lined up on a conveyor belt.

Replace worn and damaged silicone cups with push-on vacuum cups. For a good fit, match the size of your current cups.

Warning: Never use to lift people or items over people.

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Press these cups onto unthreaded fittings on your vacuum system to pick up sanitary items with curves, corners, and uneven surfaces. They can also replace worn cups on threaded vacuum fittings. These cups have bellows that compress as they contact an object for a better hold than flat cups. The more bellows a cup has, the more it compresses, giving it a tighter hold on a variety of workpiece shapes.

Made of silicone, these cups withstand the extreme temperatures in food processing applications. They're also FDA compliant for direct contact with food.

Metal-detectable cups have a metal additive that sets off metal detectors if they fall into your line. They're bright blue, so they're easy to find and remove. They help you comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs to keep contaminated food from leaving your facility. Designed for thorough cleaning, these cups don't have pits, crevices, or tight angles where bacteria can hide. Metal-detectable cups with a single bellow have a deeper cup than other single-bellow cups, which gives them more surface contact with round objects and a better grip.

Warning: Never use to lift people or items over people.

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Grip, lift, and move food as well as other items with curves, angles, and varied heights in food-processing plants. All of these lifters have a flexible balloon-like cup that’s made of FDA-compliant silicone rubber, so they’re safe for direct contact with food. Unlike other more rigid lifters, these are designed to conform to irregular shapes for a secure hold. Use these lifters with compressed air. Also known as venturi devices, they generate suction without an installed vacuum system.

All of these lifters have a lightweight aluminum housing that withstands corrosion. The cup is secured to the housing with two stainless steel spring bands. The bands stand up to rust and can be easily removed to replace a worn cup. Inside the cup is a rubber cushion that protects items from damage if they come in contact with the housing as they are lifted. One replacement cup is included. These lifters also have a metal filter, which keeps contaminants from entering the vacuum passage.

Use the additional port on these lifters with a pressure transmitter (not included). Your transmitter will convert air pressure to an electrical signal for viewing air measurements on remote displays and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). You can also use the port to create a burst of air for removing debris in the vacuum passage or releasing items that didn’t drop when the vacuum stopped.

Metal-detectable lifters have a cup that contains metal additives that will set off metal detectors if the cup or any piece of it falls into your food line. Use them to help you comply with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs.

To connect these lifters to robot arms, drill holes in robot tool mounts to match the mounting holes on the lifter. If you don't see your robot model number listed, measure the bolt circle diameter to determine mounting compatibility. All of these mounts resist corrosion. Aluminum mounts are lightweight, helping your robot arm stay under its payload limit, or the total capacity a robot can lift. They’re also more machinable than stainless steel. 304 stainless steel mounts are often used in washdown environments, such as food-processing plants, since they won't corrode from frequent washdowns. They’re stronger than aluminum, but also heavier and less machinable.

Warning: Never use to lift people or items over people.

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