Flat Wafer Brushes
Flat wafers use a flat ring or channel and are commonly stacked with separate spacers. They suit road, snow and attachment brooms designed for this ring-and-spacer arrangement.
Custom Sweeper Wafer Brushes
We manufacture custom wafer brushes for road sweepers, snow sweepers, runway equipment and sweeper attachments.
Flat, convoluted, tufted wide-face and angled designs are available in synthetic filament, steel wire or mixed fill. We produce individual rings and complete replacement sets to drawing or sample.
Send Your Wafer DrawingSweeper Broom Construction
What Is a Sweeper Wafer Brush?
A wafer brush is an individual circular brush ring installed with other wafers along a sweeper arbor or core. The stacked wafers form the wide cylindrical working face of a road, snow or attachment broom.
Brush Ring Types
Wafer Brush Types We Manufacture
Convoluted Wafer Brushes
Convoluted or wavy wafers use a formed ring that provides spacing as adjacent sections nest along the core. These are commonly supplied as spacerless designs, with the wave pitch and orientation matched to the broom assembly.
Tufted / Wide-Face Brush Rings
Filament bundles are set into a wider molded ring body. We manufacture custom wide-face rings, including designs that assemble without separate spacers, for machines using this replacement system.
Angled / Sloped Wafer Brushes
The channel is angled so the bristles work in a sloped direction. These rings serve selected sweeping, agricultural collection and gutter-sweeping arrangements, with the angle made to the required installation.
Ring & Drive Interface
Ring Construction and Custom Dimensions
- Ring materials: steel or galvanized-steel profiles, plastic channels and molded bodies for tufted rings.
- Dimensions: custom outside diameter (OD), inside diameter (ID) and axial ring width.
- Drive features: one- or two-pin arrangements, notches, keys and other features matched to the core.
- Assembly details: spacer width, wave pitch and end arrangement matched to the existing broom.
The inside diameter must fit the core, and the drive features must match its drive arrangement. Matching the ID alone does not establish fit. A worn sample can identify the ring and drive features, but the original working OD needs a drawing, part specification or unworn reference.
Fill Selection
Bristle and Wire Options
- Synthetic fill: PP, with PET and PBT available for selected constructions. Straight and crimped filament options are available.
- Steel wire: wire grade and diameter selected for the sweeping duty and machine.
- Poly / wire combinations: mixed-fill wafers or separate poly and wire rings arranged in the required sequence.
Filament diameter, trim and color can be customized.
Replacement Set Planning
From Individual Wafers to a Complete Broom Stack
Ring width, spacing and end retention together determine how a set fills the working length of the core:
Flat stacks:
ring and spacer widths set the spacing between brush sections.
Convoluted stacks:
wave pitch and nesting orientation affect the assembled length.
Tufted wide-face stacks:
the ring-body width determines the number of sections.
Mixed stacks:
the poly/wire sequence determines how many rings of each fill are needed.
Use the original stack arrangement as the starting point when ordering a replacement set. Changing between flat and convoluted rings can change the ring count, spacing and drive engagement; confirm the complete stack before conversion.
Sweeping Applications
Applications
Sweeper wafer brushes are used for:
- Street and road sweeping
- Snow and runway sweeping
- Skid-steer and tractor angle brooms, and pickup broom attachments
- Walk-behind power brooms
- Road resurfacing and construction cleanup
- Selected trommel screen cleaning systems
Drawing & Sample Production
Custom Replacement and Batch Supply
Brushcustom manufactures from drawings or samples for equipment manufacturers, replacement-parts distributors and maintenance teams. Supply can be organized by individual ring quantity or complete replacement sets. Wafer brushes are typically packed 20 pieces per package; confirm the final packing arrangement for each order. Spacers, shaft, core and mounting hardware are included only when listed in the quotation.
Additional Sweeper Supply
Complete gas-powered walk-behind sweepers and power brooms are also available for selected projects. Machine supply is quoted separately from replacement brush rings, based on the working width, power configuration and application.
Product Comparison
Wafer Brushes vs. Tube Brooms and Gutter Brooms
Wafer brushes:
individual rings assembled along a core.
Tube brooms:
cylindrical brushes supplied on a tube or core.
Gutter brooms:
side brushes for curbs and edges.
Runway brush cassettes:
linear brush elements fitted into tracks around a core.
Custom Production Review
Need Wafer Brushes Matched to an Existing Broom?
Minimum order quantity: 20 pieces. We support bulk custom production from drawings or samples. To request a quote, send:
- Machine or attachment model and existing part reference, if available
- Wafer type, OD, ID and ring width
- Ring material and drive-pin, notch or key details
- Filament material and size, plus the sweeping surface and debris
- Spacer or stack details, wafer count per broom and order quantity
- Drawing, sample or clear photos of the ring and complete assembly