Gast rocking pistons raise the game
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Gast Group product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jul 15, 2009
Sir William Bentley Billiards, a British manufacturer of games tables, is using a Gast rocking piston to raise and lower the height of dual-purpose dining/games tables by 51/2 inches.
The tables look and play like traditional billiards tables and can be supplied in any style from traditional rosewood and refectory-style antique oak to a contemporary metal finish.
The dual-purpose design combines a full-size billiards table with a dining table and uses Gast's 82R rocking piston and an air receiver to raise and lower the height
Several tables have already been completed and delivered to Belgravia Square in London and the Royal Palace in Saudi Arabia.
The company's new dual-purpose table design, which is supplied with hidden leaf retainers, removable tongue and groove tops and one-piece cushions, combines a full-size billiards table with a dining table and uses Gast's 82R rocking piston and an air receiver to raise and lower the height of the 1.5-tonne table between play and dining height in just 30 seconds.
Travers Nettleton, managing director of Sir William Bentley Billiards, said: 'We have been developing manually operated, fixed-height, rollover and dual-purpose tables for many years but what was missing from our portfolio were tables operated by compressed air.
This latest project results from the recent appointment of Applied Automation (UK) and its X-STK Industrial Control and Automation equipment division to Gast's distributor network.
Gast's 82R oil-less rocking piston is powered by an AC motor and is available with air-flow rates to 6.6m3/h, vacuum capacities to 200 mbar and pressures up to 7 bar.
Outputs range from 0.25 to 0.37kW.
Other features include a simple 'O' ring cylinder head seal to reduce service time.
Benefits include better cooling qualities on the compressor head and exhaust air-temperature reduction.
Gast claims that, compared with many rocking pistons, the 82R provides up to 27 per cent better performance at maximum duties, 47 per cent higher power efficiency and 29 per cent less ampere load.
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