Lead-Screw Slide provides speeds over 60 ips.

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RGS® Rapid Guide Screw, with precision, aluminum guide and wear-compensating, anti-backlash carriage, is driven by a precision-rolled stainless steel lead screw. Moving surfaces include Kerkite® polymers on Kerkote® TFE coating. Integral mounting base allows support over entire length of slide. Additional driven or passive carriages are available with application-specific customization. Standard slide lengths are up to 8 ft.



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Kerk Motion Products Breaks the Speed Barrier with the RGS(TM) Rapid Guide Screw



Kerk Motion Products, one of the world's premier manufacturers of non-ball lead screws, introduces the new RGS® Rapid Guide Screw. The value-priced Kerk RGS® offers exceptional linear speed, accurate positioning and long life. With Kerk's wide range of available leads, speeds of more than 60 inches per second (1.5 meters per second) are possible, rivaling belts and cables while offering superior positioning accuracy, repeatability and axial stiffness.

This screw-driven slide is ideal for various applications, including medical, data storage, semiconductor, optical and photonic equipment and instruments. The RGS® offers many benefits for high speed printing, scanning and engraving, especially over long lengths. It can also be used for actuation and positioning in transportation applications, pick and place mechanisms and most automated equipment; even free-standing docking mechanisms for transfer between machines.

Including a precision aluminum guide and carriage, the Kerk RGS® slide is driven by a precision-rolled stainless steel lead screw. The moving surfaces include Kerkite® high performance polymers on Kerkote® TFE coating. The RGS has a unique, compact profile, providing outstanding torsional stiffness and stability for its size and weight, and the integral mounting base allows support over the entire length of the slide if desired.

The RGS® comes standard with a wear-compensating, anti-backlash driven carriage, and additional driven or passive carriages can be added with application-specific customization. Lengths of up to 8' (2.4 meters) are readily manufactured, while longer lengths are available by special order. Also available are Kerk's RGS linear guides without drive screws, and all configurations offer plug-and-play convenience with the performance and value expected from Kerk Motion Products.

About Kerk Motion Products
Established in 1976, Kerk Motion Products, Inc. is one of the world's largest exclusive manufacturers of non-ball lead screws. The company, headquartered in Hollis, NH, develops internationally patented, anti-backlash designs and materials that provide high accuracy, unsurpassed repeatability, and long life in a full range of motion control applications. The company's production facilities include its own injection molding and moldmaking, CNC machine tools, and a quality control department utilizing real-time SPC. For more information about Kerk Motion Products and its lines of lead screws, screw rails, and linear rails, contact Kerk Motion Products, Inc., 1 Kerk Drive, Hollis, NH 03049; Call 603-465-7227; Fax 603-465-3598. More information is available at www.kerkmotion.com.

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