At Bormill Inc., our clients will be happy to find a wide range of rollers that can be used specifically to get whatever mechanical engineering job you have finished. Rollers are an element of a machine that is used to hold relative motion of liquid or air, and reduce the friction between moving parts. Rollers come in a wide range of styles, including: cylindrical, spherical, gear, tapered, and needle.

A cylindered roller is a very common roller that is earliest known dating all the way back to 40 BC. Its inner and outer races are crafted to be misaligned. Spherical rollers contain an outer ring with a spherical shape, hence its name. Gear bearings are bearings that are combined to epicyclical gear, where the widths of the rollers and gearwheels are the same. A tapered roller runs on conical races, and can generally carry higher loads than ball bearings. Lastly, needle rollers are long and thin, and usually both ends of the rollers are tapered to points.

Regardless of the type, most rollers are designed to provide free linear movement on a fixed axis, or are used to prevent the motion by having an element of control over the forces that have something to do with the mobility of the moving parts.

To reduce the fraction down to a mum, the use of lubrication is often necessary. Another way that is commonly used to prevent fiction is with circular cross sections that are placed between the races of a roller’s assembly.