We asked Smalley marketing engineer Justyna Rapacz to fill us in on the design of wave springs and their utility to engineers designing products. We turned to Smalley as the inventor of the edge wound ...

The springs are manufactured from a single strand of Type 17-7 PH stainless-steel flat wire formed in a continuous precise coil with uniform diameters and waves. Sizes to fit hole diameters from 0.375 ...

Stainless-steel and beryllium-copper wave spring washers obtain required loading when the allowable amount of axial space in a mechanism is limited. They are used as cushion springs or spacers between ...