Cage Nut Assembly
Cage Nut Assembly

Cage Nut Assembly

Cage Nut Assembly supplied by Xiamen Apollo Electric is specially designed for electrical cabinet and relay installation. Its technical features include stainless steel/spring steel material, various threads (metric/imperial) and a floating compensation design. Mold opening customization and structure optimization are available. We strictly control the process standards of silver contact riveting, stamping and welding. With years of experience in electrical metal processing, our company has both precision and cost advantages. Welcome for inquiries and customization.
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Cage Nut Assembly
Products Description

In modern cabinet systems, server architectures, industrial control equipment and rail transit equipment, the reliability of structural connections directly affects the safety and maintenance efficiency of the entire equipment. As a key fastening element in standardized installation systems, Cage Nut Assembly is widely used in square-hole mounting rails and frame structures to achieve stable connections with high strength, detachability and repeated assembly.

We specialize in the R&D and manufacturing of high-quality Floating Cage Nut, providing global engineering purchasers and system integrators with highly consistent and reliable standard and customized solutions to help customers improve assembly efficiency and reduce later maintenance costs.

 

Materials and Production Process

Pre-pressing and Setting of the Elastic Cage

After the stamping of the Cage Nut Combo, precise pre-pressing treatment is carried out to ensure that the elastic resilience is stabilized within the designed range, avoiding permanent deformation during transportation or pre-installation, and guaranteeing the positioning and compensation accuracy of the floating nut.

Dual Process: Cold Heading + Thread Rolling

Cold heading is adopted to maintain the internal fiber continuity of the Floating Nut Combo. Then, precision thread rolling is applied to process the threads, with tooth profile accuracy meeting international standards. The threads engage with the bolts smoothly without jamming, eliminating the risk of thread slipping.

Online Inspection of Component Clearance

 

Automatic clearance inspection equipment is equipped in the assembly process to monitor the movement range of the U-Nut Floating Assembly inside the cage in real time, ensuring flexible tolerance compensation and preventing pre-installation looseness caused by excessive clearance.

Full Inspection of Finished Products and Batch Traceability

100% dimensional and elasticity inspection is conducted for each batch of Clip-On Floating Nut. Meanwhile, a batch traceability system is established to realize full-link traceability from raw materials to finished products, ensuring consistent quality and traceability.

 

Production Process of Cage Nut Assembly

 

Core Advantages of the Product
 

Quick Snap‑in Structure

The Floating Nut Clip features an elastic clamping design. It requires no screws, welding, or riveting tools, and can be positioned simply by snapping into a square hole, significantly shortening production line time. Its freely floating structure automatically compensates for mounting hole position errors, reducing requirements for sheet metal punching precision, minimizing assembly issues such as jamming, misalignment, and off‑center locking, and improving overall assembly consistency.

Floating Compensation + Shockproof & Loose‑proof

The Cage Nut with Float provides adequate floating space within its cage, accommodating assembly deviations, thermal expansion and contraction, and slight deformations. This ensures more even force distribution on the screw, preventing thread stripping, seizing, and breakage. The combined cage and nut structure maintains stable locking under vibration, making it ideal for equipment exposed to long‑term vibration, such as cabinets and vehicle‑mounted chassis, and fundamentally reducing the risk of loosening.

 

Reusable Installation & Removal

The Spring-Steel Floating Nut supports repeated disassembly and reuse without damaging the sheet metal or leaving residual structures, facilitating later equipment expansion, maintenance, upgrades, and modifications. Compared with non‑detachable methods such as riveting and welding, it greatly reduces maintenance costs and scrap rates, and is particularly suitable for scenarios requiring frequent maintenance, including data centers, telecommunication rooms, and industrial cabinets.

 

High Versatility

Standard‑specification Float-Nut Cage Units are compatible with mainstream global cabinet hole spacings, support common thread sizes such as M5, and fit most telecommunications cabinets, server cabinets, industrial control cabinets, and power distribution cabinets. They are compatible with sheet metal structures of different thicknesses and can be installed with corresponding square holes without retooling for different sheet thicknesses, greatly reducing the variety of materials and inventory pressure for customers.

 

Floating Cage Nut

 

Packaging & Transportation

Specialized Thread Protection

Adopts independent inner bag packaging + inner box with positioning slots design. Each Floating Nut Retainer is individually embedded into a customized foam slot to prevent thread damage and elastic deformation of the cage during transportation. The inner bag is anti-static and moisture-proof, filled with anti-rust desiccant to eliminate thread rust, ensuring intact precision and elasticity upon delivery.

 

Graded Compression-Resistant

Standard Cage-Type Floating Nut is protected by an inner plastic bag + inner paper box + outer corrugated box + pallet. Partition boards are installed inside the paper box to prevent shaking. Heavy-duty or stainless-steel nuts above M10 are upgraded with pearl cotton lining + thickened outer box, and cushioning pads are added between pallet layers to disperse stacking pressure and guarantee pre-assembly flexibility of components.

 

Cross-Border Customized Protection

For cross-border sea transportation, Cage Nut Assembly is added with anti-salt spray coating and moisture-proof sealing film, with "Precision Fasteners" and "Moisture & Pressure Proof" marks on the outer box. For air transportation, packaging weight and size are optimized with lightweight cushioning materials. Full-process logistics tracking and signature confirmation are provided to ensure on-time and intact delivery without affecting the assembly schedule.

 

 

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Contact Us

 

If you have any requirements concerning the procurement, selection, sample request, or customization of Cage Nut Assembly, or if you wish to obtain further information regarding product details, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will deploy a professional team to provide personalized one-on-one service, develop customized adaptation solutions, and guarantee stable supply, precise selection, and efficient procurement processes.

Mr. Terry from Xiamen Apollo

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