Hemispherical End Caps

Vessel dished ends can also be welded together from smaller pieces.

Hemispherical end caps.

The most common head shapes are. These end caps are used at the bottom of pipes to filter out solvents from materials. Spheres hemispheres these hollow metal balls and metal spheres have a wide range of ornamental applications for designers and fabricators. If the plane passes through the center of the sphere so that the height of the cap is equal to the radius of the sphere the spherical cap is called a hemisphere.

Our end caps are made from ss304 stainless steel. Xtractor depot has all kinds of end caps for sale. 6 hemispherical end cap with 1 2 compression filter plate. Check out our 2 hemispherical end cap with 1 2 compression made from ss304 stainless steel.

Prescor manufactures seamless asme hemispherical tank heads of many sizes from 6 5 8 od to 60 id. This end cap comes with 1 2 compression to add tubes. The starting material is first pressed to a radius r 1 and then curled at the edge creating the second radius r 2. It is also a spherical segment of one base i e bounded by a single plane.

Get more information about post and end caps including pricing and availability and place your next order. For high pressure projects the advantage of a hemisphere is that most asme code calculations require less minimum thickness to hold high pressure than a 2 1 elliptical head. The shape of the heads used can vary.