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Safeguarding Cutting and
Turning Machines—Rockford Sys-
tems, Rockford, IL, introduces a
catalog, Safeguarding Cutting
and Turning Machines, high-
lighting its products designed
to protect operators from injury
while working with cutting and
turning machines. Included are
polycarbonate and steel shields,
for use with drill presses, lathes,
milling machines and grinders.
Also offered: emergency-stop devices, disconnect switches, pres- sure-sensitive safety mats and signage.
Rockford Systems, Inc.; 800/922-7533,
www.rockfordsystems.com
Green Coil-Coated Materials and Lubricants—Chemcoaters LLC, Gary, IN, has published a brochure describing the “green advantage” from using its coil- coated metal-alloy products and its dry-film lubricants. The firm supplies environmentally friend- ly waterborne coatings and lubri- cants. Acrylic dry-film lubricants described in the brochure have a low coefficient of friction—0.04 to 0.10—that the company says enables the forming of parts that would not normally form, or
would be difficult to form with typical wet lubricants.
Chemcoaters LLC: 877/411-2905; www.chemcoaters.com
Tube-End Forming Equipment
—Manchester Tool & Die, Inc.,
North Manchester, IN, offers
literature featuring its tube end-
forming equipment and tooling
capabilities. The brochure pro-
vides details and specifications
on O.D. tube capacities, typical
applications and benefits for
each model of forming machine,
groover, crimper, crimp machine
and autoloader. The firm offers
standard and custom-built tube end-forming machines with O.D. capacity from 3⁄16 to 3 in.
Manchester Tool & Die: 260/982-8524;
www.manchestertoolanddie.com
Tie-Rod Hydraulic Cylinders—Bosch Rexroth Corp., Beth- lehem, PA, offers a catalog detailing its extensive line of NFPA
tie-rod hydraulic cylinders. The
250-pg. cylinder catalog includes
datasheets, service instructions,
mounting details, schematics
and technical specifications for
the company’s medium- and
heavy-duty, large-bore, linear
positioning and metric ISO cylin-
ders. Bosch Rexroth NFPA tie-rod
cylinders find use, among other
industrial applications, in
machine tools and light- and
medium-duty hydraulic presses.
Bosch Rexroth Corp.: 800/739-7684; www.boschrexrothproducts.com
Fastening System, Fasteners—A new CD-ROM from AKH Inc., Indianapolis, IN, explains how the firm’s Fas-Ner system automatically feeds, inserts and locks fasteners into a sheet- metal assembly in one simple process. Demonstration and field- application videos provide a first-hand look at how the process works. AKH provides single-hit machines as well as completely automated turnkey systems integrated into main production lines. It also designs custom Fas-Ners around customer needs, in a variety of lengths and with special coatings and paints.
AKH Inc.: 317/243-5915; www.akhfas-ner.com
Automated Hardware Inser-
tion—A brochure from Haeger,
Inc., Oakdale, CA, catalogs the
firm’s fastener-insertion equip-
ment—models for nearly every
type and size of self-clinching fas-
tener on the market. The Model
824 WindowTouch-3, for example,
with the turret-insertion system,
enables the insertion of as many
as four different fasteners in one
handling. Specs are provided for
five machines with force range from 250 to 16,000 lb., throat depth from 12 to 24 in., and throat height from 13.75 to 17 in. Also illustrated in the brochure are Haeger’s robotic solutions for customized automation applications. Several testimonials from fabricators around the world are included, to further illustrate how the machines improve productivity and quality.
Haeger, Inc.: 209/848-4000; www.haeger.com
Fineblanking Presses—The X-Tra Series of fineblanking press- es from Schmid Corp. of America, Jackson, MI, takes center stage in this brochure. The machines feature a hydraulic servo-drive to control ram movement—an AC servo-motor defines ram position and the control valve on the main cylin- der amplifies the motions hydraulically. Direct mechanical
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