Our 50 years of experience qualify us to co-design boots and bellows for joysticks, and to customize them for special devices by supporting the customer during the entire project phase.
Continuous collaboration with our mold makers and partners, coupled with the latest technology, have enabled us to greatly improve the level of materials and design. So now we are able to deliver bellows with excellent durability, which are highly resistant to low or high temperatures, and are aesthetically pleasing, featuring invisible mold parting lines and injection points.
Barbieri Rubber makes customizable rubber bellows that are ideal for a wide range of precision applications.
Restrictions and Relative Solutions -
The polar movement of levers and joysticks significantly complicates the behavior of any protection that can be installed. A rubber bellow is the best solution to avoid short life and cracks, but if the bellow is not properly designed it will present defects during prolonged use, mainly in the convolutions, this will cause an unsatisfactory aesthetic result but will also reduce the operability. It is very important to study the angles and movement amplitude to design the bellows so that they are able to follow all the possible positions and path with no internal material stress.
Moreover, the joystick bellow is a component that stands out, so it is very important to utilize the new special compounds in order to obtain a product that is functional, but at the same time meets the required aesthetics.