4" Top Plate Rigid Caster with Glass-Filled Polypropylene Wheel and Face Brake (FBC) - 170RT04201SFBC

About This Caster - 170RT04201SFBC

Choose this 4-inch Empire 170 swivel with an FBC face brake when a small washdown cart has to steer in tight aisles, then park and hold.

The FBC brake is the close-radius face-brake style, pressing a shoe against the wheel to stop it where space is short. The wheel is glass-filled polypropylene, a stiff reinforced plastic that handles -20 to 250°F and resists washdown chemicals where steel rusts and rubber breaks down. It is hard with no cushioning, so it rolls easily on smooth floors but passes shock through and can mark, and at 4 inches it carries up to 800 pounds on a roller bearing sized for manual pushing. The swivel turns on a kingpinless welded raceway with no central pin to loosen, bolts on a 4 by 4-1/2-inch top plate at a low 5-5/8-inch mount height, and wears a zinc-plated finish.

Ideal applications

• 4-inch glass-filled poly FBC-braked swivel up to 800 lb in tight aisles
• Close-radius FBC face brake holding a small plastic wheel on washdown carts
• Maneuverable 4-inch chemical-area cart up to 250°F that parks and holds

For the wider-radius brake, the 170RT04201SFBB uses the FBB style.

Pairs with: plain RT swivels on the rolling corners and this braked caster on a parking corner.

Wrong fit? Need the wider brake or a swivel lock? See the RT FBB-brake 170RT04201SFBB and the RT swivel-lock 170RT04201SL.

Also in this family: the plain RT swivel 170RT04201S, or the full Albion collection.