Compression Limiters

Protect plastic, wood and rubber parts

Soft components without compression limiters are destroyed during fastening as a result of the necessary screwing forces. The load causes compression, which can lead to cracking and creep due to tightening torque.

These non-threaded inserts are designed to protect plastic, wood and rubber parts from loads created by the tightening of bolts.

Vogelsang Compression Limiters are fabricated completely in accordance with our customers’ wishes and the statutory regulations using the roll-bending process for rolled tubular products. The multiple design options in our compression limiters combined with our dedicated team of engineers allows your product to incorporate the shapes, materials, and features you need.

Our punch press manufacturing process offers substantial cost savings over other products and allows for a wide variety of additional options. If the compression limiter requires features that normally have to be machined into a cut tube through a secondary process, our wrapped metal split seam compression limiters can provide the same if not more features at no increase in piece price and little expense in initial tooling.

Our compression limiters can be designed to any specification in varied sizes in diameters and lengths, and can include unique slot shapes, multiple seam types, grooves, knurling, and protrusions. We arrange the geometry and the material along with you, including outer diameter, inner diameter, material thickness, length, and the installation aids required (e.g. bevels). At the same time, almost every geometric shape can be implemented.

Compression limiters can be optionally molded in place or inserted after injection molding.

For insertion applications, the gap in the split seam will provide radial tension to ensure that the limiter does not fall out before final installation of both primary components. Cut tubing parts cannot provide the radial tension that our split seam CL’s can. We offer full service engineering assistance with customer product development to attain product assembly expectations.

For injection molded applications, Vogelsang’s wrapped split seam CL’s can be designed with a completely closed seam allowing for absolutely no bleed through. We can even design a V-shaped seam that does not allow seepage and the open end of the V-shape acts as an anti-rotation feature. We offer full service engineering assistance with customer product development to attain product assembly expectations.