I work outside of the injection moldmaking industry. However, I have a need for a mechanism that attaches two components together for linear motion until they reach a predefined location and then the mechanism releases automatically.

I found one company that has such a mechanism on their website, Rabourdin Industrie, and was looking for others.

Can anyone offer suggested websites or companies that make thes types of mechanisms?

Thanks,
Eric Hatley

This is not a rocket science and your own ingenuity would be your best help.

Just briefly think about it you want to maintain 2 plates to be held together for a pre determined distamce or pressure of pull.

Then just devise a simple locking system whether it be bars or rods or long screws or even PolyuUrethane rubber on a screw which is mounted on a screw on one plate and the more you tighten this the more it spreads ot and then goes into the hole in the other plate and applies pressure and pulls apart the items you want ot open.

Go for it, design something and you'll learn from your failures, it's okay to fail once but not three times on the same problem.

I agree with joe but if you don't have time to retrofit
of the shelf ready to use products think outside the ordinary -gear racks with friction controlled gear function using bellevue washers friction nuts,toggles,tulips,cams which can all be configured for positive, decellerated for accelerated travel and position .springs are as useful as chains
I prefer to eat with a spork yo quiero taco bell