Spider Fittings

Description

Spider fittings are another crowd favourite when it comes to a successful glass fin system. A glass fin stabilizer supports the glass facade as a back-up structure while allowing for maximum vision area. Basically, it allows for a flush exterior surface over a large expanse of glass. It’s no surprise that it’s quite perfect for malls, business complexes, even furniture and other such structures.

The spider fittings are manufactured using the lost wax casting method with a 316-grade stainless steel and a tensile strength of 600 MPa to provide a flexible connection between glass and the support system.

The arms of the spider fitting are specifically fashioned to support maximum loading and allow a certain flexibility to reduce stress around the glass holes. They can carry 12.0 kn under static load tests. They also assist the glass facade in absorbing any dynamic movement while allowing maximum transparency. Spider fittings are supported by vital engineering. This is done so that the final product can be designed to endure natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes.

We have various series of glass fin spiders designed to fit well with the structural glass wall and the glass fin stabilizers. The two most sought-after ones being, 445/4, which is a four-way connector, designed to attach four glass panels and 445/2, a two-way connector created to be used at the perimeters of the structural glass wall to connect two glass panels. Other uses of the 445 series of glass fin spiders includes its purpose in conjunction with suspension assemblies, root fin angles, glass fin splice plates, restraining boxes, thus offering a complete design solution for structural glass walls using glass fin stabilizers.