Spring Clips

Flat Springs

Spring clips are fasteners that grip inserted components through spring tension. Generally, spring clips are u-shaped, but they are also available in other shapes; both clothes pins and binder clips are types of unusually shaped spring clips. A wide range of materials are used in the manufacture of spring clips, including steel, plastic, wood, and various alloys. The material used and its thickness, as well as design, determine the clips strength.

Fourslide Stampings

Flat Springs

Fourslide metal stamping is a metal forming process in which flat stock sheet metal, formed from metals such as steel, aluminum, zinc, nickel and titanium, etc., is shaped into predetermined parts in a stamping press. During press operation, the slide, or ram, maintains movement to and from a motionless table called a press bed. The die, a press tool consisting of a specially designed cavity, shapes metal parts from the inserted sheet metal. The upper component of the die connects to the press slide, and the lower component connects to the press bed. A die component called the punch performs the necessary shaping operation by pushing the sheet metal through the die.

Metal Clips

Flat Springs

Metal spring clips come in all shapes and sizes. It might attach the penlight to your keychain, keep your distributor cap in place or keep your glove box closed snugly. Whatever its function, odds are the best way to make it is with the Fourslide process. Nobody knows more about making your metal spring clip than Fourslide Spring and Stamping.

Metal Stampings

Flat Springs

Metal Stamping is a process that use dies to transform flat metal sheets into shapes. Odds are you have a product in your home that has parts created through metal stamping because it is a process used in everything from your household appliances to automotive industries. This process is used for producing parts for large machinery, but the metal sheets can also be molded into shapes for household items like pots and pans.

Electrical Contacts

Flat Springs

Bow Springs

Flat Springs

A bow spring is commonly manufactured from flat bar or strip. A bow spring is formed with an arc at or near the center and is supported on both ends with the force applied to the center of the arc.A Cantilever Spring is made from the same materials but is clamped on one end while the force is applied to the other. Edge style of the material can play an important role in these springs; square edge, round edge, as milled or precision machined, depending on your application.