Cam Followers – Imperial

Standard Needle Cam Followers and Cam Yoke Rollers

Unlike ordinary products, Carter cam followers and cam yoke rollers feature a robust outer race design and are capable of accepting high radial and shock loads. As a full complement needle design, Carter cam followers and yoke rollers allow designers to make provision for high loads too. Our cam followers feature an integral stud for easy mounting, and to allow loads to be more evenly spread, our cam yoke rollers use a through shaft for mounting in a ‘yoke’ assembly.

Further options include crowned rollers to reduce the stresses of angular misalignment and eccentric collars which allow for mounting misalignment. For higher loads, heavy stud options are available together with seals to exclude contaminants and extend bearing life.

Carter’s expert bearing and cam follower application team is always available if you have any questions about which bearing is best suited to your project. Call or email us now and we will respond without delay.

Stainless Steel Xtenda Series™

In 1993 Carter pioneered the production of stainless steel cam followers with its unique Xtenda Series™. They have been in production and remained popular with designers worldwide ever since.

The Xtenda Series™ provides designers with exceptional corrosion resistance in arduous, potentially hostile application environments. Typical examples in which Carter Xtenda Series™ cam followers excel include the food and beverage industry, nuclear decommissioning robots and in cam locking mechanisms in spacecraft and satellites.

To improve the choices and options for designers needing to convert rotary into linear motion, Carter has recently extended its technical lead with another industry ‘first’ by introducing heavy stud and eccentric cam followers to the Xtenda Series™. For applications that require it, these new products can be a game changer for design teams.

Carter’s expert bearing and cam follower application team is always available if you have any questions about which bearing is best suited to your project, call or email us now and we will respond without delay.

Hi-Roller™ Idler Rollers

Carter Hi-Roller™ idle rollers are designed to cater for combinations of high radial and thrust loads. They offer many advantages over standard needle bearing cam followers, a feature a design using either deep groove ball or taper roller bearings to provide a higher speed capability with a given load.

Carter Hi-Roller™ idle rollers are supplied as standard with high capacity sealing and an expansion plug on one end with a radial lip on the other end. This makes them particularly suitable for use in highly contaminated environments, especially in applications where moisture, dust or powder may be present.

Carter’s expert bearing and cam follower application team is always available if you have any questions about which bearing is best suited to your project, call or email us now and we will respond without delay.

Neverlube™ Cam followers and Bearings

Neverlube™ cam followers and cam yoke rollers were another industry ‘first’ for Carter. Our design features a sintered brass bush combined with a grease reservoir that uses capillary action to control lubrication, thus providing much greater freedoms for designers of machinery where access for lubrication is challenging .

Neverlube™ cam followers and cam yoke rollers from Carter are therefore well suited to applications where relubrication is either difficult or impossible, including areas of frequent washdown and those with high levels of ambient contamination. Our bushing design has been proven to reduce the possibility of bearing failure and costly production downtime by assuring correct lubrication.

Carter’s expert bearing and cam follower application team is always available if you have any questions about which bearing is best suited to your project, call or email us now and we will respond without delay.

Polycoated Bearings

Polycoated bearings from Carter provide designers another industry ‘first’ by being available as a standard catalogue product available off-the-shelf. Previously only available as a special order part and on long lead times, polycoated bearings from Carter also offer designers a raft of additional useful advantages. These include reduced noise levels and reduced component wear coupled with the fact that the bearing will not mark materials on any mating components.

Our experience in designing and manufacturing polycoated bearings means that we have built up an unrivalled understanding of the material characteristics and its possibilities, allowing us to advise designers on a variety of custom options to suit a multitude of applications. Typical amongst these are lift and conveyor machinery with new applications, including aerospace seating, regularly emerging.

Carter’s expert polycoated bearing application team is always available if you have any questions about which bearing is best suited to your project, call or email us now and we will respond without delay.

Custom Needle Bearings

For more than 20 years Carter has been the preferred source of custom cam followers, yoke rollers and needle bearings amongst leading designers. Our extensive range of products offer choices of specialist materials, grease lubrication options and coatings. Our custom designs allow customers to achieve their objectives without encountering the problems often associated with non-standard products. Carter design and manufacturing competence and experience means that whether a production run is large or small, we can design and deliver the right custom products on time, anywhere in the world.

We offer industry-beating production lead times, combined with many years of  experience designing and producing custom bearings. irrespective of whether a custom design is manufactured in short or long production runs we only use premium quality materials manufactured either in Europe or in the USA

Carter’s expert custom bearing and cam follower application team is always available if you have any questions about which bearing is best suited to your project, call or email us now and we will respond without delay.

Standard Imperial Cam Followers

Carter cam followers and cam yoke roller track rollers offer many benefits over standard bearings. A robust outer race and full complement needle design makes them capable of accepting high radial and shock loads. Carter cam followers have an integral stud so that they can be easily mounted in application, and our cam yoke rollers use a through shaft for mounting in a ‘yoke’ format, spreading the load in the assembly much more evenly to deliver in-service advantages that include quieter, smoother running and extended life.

Carter cam followers for linear motion, conveyors and process lines feature thicker outer rings than normal bearings to reduce distortion and distribute load more evenly, whatever the configuration. Additional options include crowned rollers to reduce the stresses of angular misalignment and eccentric collars to allow for mounting misalignment. Additional options include heavy stud options for higher loads as well as seals to extend bearing life by excluding contamination.

If you have any questions as to which bearing is best suited for your application, our bearing engineers are always available to provide expert advice and guidance.

Chrome Plated Cam Followers

For designs demanding increased corrosion protection, reduced friction and greatly improved wear rates, the Carter SBC thin dense chrome plated cam follower range offers all these significant advantages. SBC thin dense chrome cam followers also provide a much higher load carrying capacity than stainless steel versions, and are proven to be more cost-efficient.

Carter cam bearings are produced from 52100 bearing steel which is thin dense chrome coated and then assembled with 440C stainless steel rollers and food grade grease as standard.

Carter’s thin dense chrome coating increases surface hardness to 78Rc, delivering increased wear life. The coating’s surface finish can provide a coefficient of friction as low as .12. Further, our thin dense chrome coating provides corrosion resistance which is equivalent to that delivered by 440C stainless steel.

The Carter thin dense chrome coating has been proven and approved for more than 50 years in critical applications in the aerospace, marine, nuclear, oil and gas and defence sectors. It has proved particularly valuable for designers working on projects involving operation especially aggressive environments.

Carter’s expert thin dense chrome cam follower application team is always available if you have any questions about which bearing is best suited to your project, call or email us now and we will respond without delay