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Previews
Press-Feed Equipment Lineup Features Zig-Zag Feed
Dallas Industries
Booth A5120
Quick Die-Change Equipment and Solutions
EAS Mold & Die Change Systems, Inc.
Booth A5251
Dallas Industries will discuss its lineup of press-feed equipment, including air and servo feeds, pull-through and powered straight- eners, single- and double-coil reels, and cradles. The company’s zig-zag servo feed has a one-, two- or three-out capacity with the servo-feed index cycle made simultaneously with the cross- slide lateral travel, producing a diagonal stock movement in the automatic mode. This combination of the cross-slide lateral
EAS will present its
extended product portfolio for quick die
changing on forming presses. The offerings
include equipment for moving and clamping tools on the press, including conveyor systems and heavy-load stackers used in automatic transport and die-change systems.
www.easchangesystems.com
travel and diagonal stock movement of the zig-zag feed enables manufacturers to minimize the scrap generated when stamping out circles. The manual mode has forward or reverse indexing and cross-travel indexing, and the absolute feedback of the cross-slide eliminates the need for homing, making the feed ready at power-up.
The servo is mounted on a linear bushing support base that travels perpendicular to the stock flow on case-hardened guide paths, and the zig-zag feed provides optimized strip advance and lateral length based on operator entry of material width,
blank diameter and web thickness.
www.dallasindustries.com
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