AUTUMN 2019
LEVELLING FEET
The right feet
for the right job
Elesa’s range of levelling feet offer significant advantages in a range of industrial
applications and aggressive environments.
As market leading manufacturers
in high quality levelling feet,
Elesa offers units for all industrial
purposes from simple desks and
workstations to vibration damping
and non-slip for heavy machines, food
industry and biohazard applications.
At the light duty end of the spectrum, the
LX series is designed with adjustment moulded
into the foot. They are suited to applications
on instrumentation housings, office desking,
bench top equipment, portable stands and
displays or similar.
For more demanding situations some
machine feet have a base with special shape
or design that allows fixing to the ground.
This solution is suitable when you need to give
more stability to the equipment. These types
of machine levelling feet are available with or
without no-slip disk NBR rubber applied to
the base which ensures a perfect anchoring,
preventing separation even in case of shocks
during transport or adhesion to the floor.
LW.A vibration damping units from
Elesa feature natural rubber damping pads
built into an adjustable levelling foot design.
They have been designed to damp vibrations,
shocks and noise from moving components
or non-balanced masses such as rotating
machines. This vibration can cause significant
detrimental effects on operator health as well
as malfunctioning/reduction-in-lifespan of the
machine or adjacent equipment.
“Active” machine isolation is described as
being for vibration producing equipment such
as presses, machine tools, transfer equipment
etc. to prevent vibration being transmitted away
from the source. In addition, they are of value
in a passive role when mounted on equipment
that might be adversely affected by external
vibration, such as quality testing, measuring
or performance assessment equipment. This
“bi-directional” isolation is an important
feature of the LW.A levelling elements and is
often a feature in the same location.
Hygienic engineering
The LMRS levelling feet are manufactured in
stainless steel (AISI 303/304) and are designed
to shed liquids downward. The low sulphur
content of materials used in the LMRS and
design features such as convex base with
sleeved bolt are particularly significant to the
food industry. For this reason, an adjustable
sleeve covers the threaded stem, and other
sharp edges and corners have been to a large
extent avoided. This increases the efficiency
of power cleaning measures in messy
environments such as food processing, abattoirs
and other hygiene sensitive applications.
Elesa’s LM.F-HD-SST series of levelling
feet in stainless steel with permanent floor
mounting facility are now EHEDG certified
(European Hygienic Engineering & Design
Group). This means that they offer significant
advantages in improved hygiene and reduced
cleaning time. Thereby enhancing the
environment of industrial areas such as in food
production, pharmaceutical, paint and dye
manufacture and similar, as well as saving on
use of cleaning materials and time taken in
wash-down cycles.
For example, there can be up to 25% time
saving with less consumption of water, energy
and cleaning agents, by use of specific design
criteria with high grade stainless steel and
FDA/EU compliant plastics.
In the food industry, medical technology
and the pharmaceutical industry, product
safety and consumer protection are becoming
increasingly important. Due to their specific
properties, standard parts in hygienic design
can assist the production process in these
sensitive areas and facilitate the manufacture of
products with a long shelf life, which are free
from preservatives.
Elesa UK Ltd
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