Sapphire and Ruby are excellent orifice jewel materials due to its high hardness, high strength, scratch resistance, high temperature resistance, as well as low coefficient of friction.

Typical Applications of sapphire orifice includes Precision flow control - gases or liquids, Accurate timing in pneumatic or hydraulic circuits, Pressure dividing circuits and pneumatic resistance bridges, and Impedance matching.

Sapphire Orifices Jewels & Ruby Orifice Jewels

Sapphire and Ruby are excellent orifice jewel materials because of their resistance to wear, heat and corrosion, as well as low friction. Ruby makes an ideal jewel orifice for a similar reason. The hole diameter for control purposes is usually specified to be held within 0.0002”. Sapphire orifices and ruby orifice jewels can be used for UHP water jet applications (up to 40,000-50,000 PSI), oil atomizing and the handling of air, hot gases and practically all liquids and acids.

Contact us for more info on sapphire orifices, jewel orifices, orifice nozzles, and orifice valves.

Sapphire Orifices Typical Applications: Ultra-High Pressure Sapphire Waterjet Orfices, Control Units (gas, liquid), Flow-meters, Ink Jet Printing

Sapphire Orifices

General Ruby Series precision sapphire orifices are available leak-proof mounted in stainless steel or brass on three week delivery.

Sapphire Orifices Ruby & Sapphire Waterjet Orifices & Nozzles

HYT Sapphire Optics manufactures the highest quality ruby and sapphire nozzle assemblies available for the waterjet cutting, surface preparation and material removal industries. We offer a wide variety of standard orifice sizes and assemblies as well as custom orifice sizes and assemblies designed to meet your exact specifications. We also offer custom orifices for a wide range of other industries including homogenization, medical, 3D printing and many more.

Sapphire Orifices Average Lifetime Of Ruby & Sapphire Orifices

Because each HYT Sapphire Optics ruby and sapphire nozzle is backed with over 30 years of experience and manufactured with the best, industry proven procedures and materials, our customers continue to rely on us to provide the longest lasting assemblies in the world today. Depending on your application, cutting pressures, shop cleanliness and many additional factors, every user is susceptible to a different average ruby or sapphire lifetime. For further lifetime details based on your specific application, please contact us.

Sapphire Orifices Corundum Orifice Material

Although Orifices are most ideal for waterjet cutting and cleaning applications, ruby and sapphire remain a commonly used orifice material. While ruby and sapphire, also known as corundum, are still heavily utilized today for non-critical applications, due to their inherent material characteristics they do not hold up well to impacts from on/off cycles, metal debris from high pressure lines, or abrasive particles that collide with the orifice edges. Any of these impacts can render the jewel useless in an instant. It takes only one impact on the inlet edge of a ruby or sapphire to chip it, causing jet stream quality failure. For these reasons, we almost always recommend upgrading to a higher quality diamond orifice material. Customers that make the switch typically never switch back due to significant increases in their productivity and bottomline.

Sapphire Orifice Jewel & Ruby Orifice Jewel

Sapphire and Ruby are excellent orifice jewel materials due to its high hardness, high strength, scratch resistance, high temperature resistance, as well as low coefficient of friction.
With 20 years’ diverse experiences of sapphire nozzles fabrication, we can ensure super surface finish and tighter tolerances to meet customer’s precision applications. The hole diameter of sapphire orifices are available in sizes from 0.04 to 0.18 mm, and tolerance up to 0.002. The surface of hole can be highly polished and surface quality can reach 40/20.
Typical Applications of sapphire orifice includes Precision flow control - gases or liquids, Accurate timing in pneumatic or hydraulic circuits, Pressure dividing circuits and pneumatic resistance bridges, and Impedance matching.