Special Grippers

Special grippers can be used for applications in which regular suction cups cannot generate a vacuum. Schmalz offers a variety of special grippers with various shapes, sizes and principles of operation.

Floating Suction Cups
Floating Suction Cups
  • Gripping using the Bernoulli principle
  • Low-contact handling of thin and sensitive workpieces
  • Lateral force absorption by elastomer buffers
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Floating Suction Cups
Floating suction cup for low-contact handling of fragile workpieces such as paper, film, printed circuit boards or wafers and solar cells.
Magnetic Grippers
Magnetic Grippers
  • Magnetic gripping
  • Handling of ferromagnetic workpieces
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Magnetic Grippers
Special grippers with permanent magnet for safe handling of ferromagnetic workpieces such as perforated sheets.
Needle Grippers
Needle Grippers
  • Gripping through the insertion of needles
  • Handling of workpieces that are difficult to grip by vacuum
  • Handling of porous materials
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Needle Grippers
Needle grippers for handling materials that are not easily gripped by vacuum, such as composite textiles, etc.
Wafer Grippers
Wafer Grippers
  • Grippers for gentle handling of wafers and cells
  • Integrated vacuum generation
  • Maximum process reliability
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Wafer Grippers
Wafer gripper for extremely quick and gentle handling of wafers and solar cells with maximum process reliability.
Flow Grippers
Flow Grippers
  • Gentle handling of extremely thin plastic films and porous materials
  • Handling of thin glass, blank and assembled printed circuit boards and dry food products
  • Integrated vacuum generation
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Flow Grippers
Special grippers with integrated vacuum generation and high flow rate for handling fragile workpieces with unstable shapes
Thin Glass Grippers
Thin Glass Grippers
  • Gentle gripping of thinnest glasses
  • Extremely dynamic and contamination-free handling
  • Integrated vacuum generation or connection for external vacuum generation
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Thin Glass Grippers
Area gripper for gentle, contamination-free and particularly dynamic handling of sensitive workpieces such as extremely thin display glass in automated or semi-automated processes.
Feed Ejectors
Feed Ejectors
  • Suction capacity up to 8,640 l/min
  • Diameter 6 to 75 mm
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Feed Ejectors
Ejector with high evacuation volume for applying suction to very porous parts and for transportation of bulk materials.
Vacuum Lifting Cylinders
Vacuum Lifting Cylinders
  • Body of aluminium with integrated lifting cylinder
  • Connection thread for vacuum grippers M5 and G1/8"
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Vacuum Lifting Cylinders
Lifting cylinder for the handling and rapid separation of thin and porous workpieces such as plastic film and paper