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The need to design a friction damper for glass-making robots arose because of the excessive vibrations, which occur in the course of their work. The robots are commonly used in the manufacture of glassware. The vibrations adversely affect the work of ball gatherers, which results in a large number of defects in the finished glass products. As a result of the vibrations molten glass may become unevenly distributed on the ball's surface and as the material flows down the ball into the mould the thermal conditions of its solidification may change. It is proposed to damp the vibrations by means of a prototype friction damper mounted directly on the ball gatherer lance. The glass-making robot lance with the friction damper was modelled. The vibrations of the glass-making robot lance tip under static load and impact excitation were measured during simulations. Also the relative displacements of the damper rings in the course of the excitations were measured. Moreover, the dependence between the preload force and the system's damping decrement was determined. The main aim was to select proper operating parameters for the proposed structure in order to obtain maximum system damping.

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The article presents FEM model of an angular contact ball bearing used in spindle systems with active preload control. A two-dimensional replacement model for a single rolling element was developed. Its elastic characteristics were determined and the stress distribution was presented for the FEM 2D model. Based on the elastic characteristics for a single rolling element, a complete 3D bearing was modelled. The substitute model of a bearing developed in this way was used to model the spindle system. The elasticity curve of this spindle was determined. The last stage of the work involved the experimental verification of the FEM model using a custom-built test bench, in which piezoelectric elements were used to preload the bearings.

A numerical model of a friction damper used for damping vibration in glass gatherer robots was described. The damper with a lance was modelled using finite elements. Primary natural frequency of the system was determined. Numerical calculations were performed to determine the best operating parameters of the damper for excitations using a impulse of a force. Results of the damping decrement calculations for the friction damper model with a constant coefficient of friction and for the model, in which the coefficient of friction varied depending on the sliding velocity and the normal pressure occurring at the contact surfaces of the damper's friction rings, were presented. Based on numerical simulations, the values of relative displacements between the damper's friction rings were also determined