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Chuck manaufacturer wins International award
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Leader Chuck Systems product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
May 7, 2004
Award-winning workholding specialist Leader Chuck Systems has added to its trophy cabinet - again - by winning the Best Workholding Equipment category at the 2004 International Machine Tool Awards.
Award-winning workholding specialist Leader Chuck Systems has added to its trophy cabinet - again - by winning the Best Workholding Equipment category at the 2004 International Machine Tool Awards announced during last month's MACH exhibition.
A distinguished panel of judges agreed that, against strong competition, Leader Chuck systems' new Mando Adapt and Jaw Adapt systems bring unrivalled levels of flexibility to lathe workholding by quickly and cost-effectively transforming a collet chuck into a mandrel and jaw chucking system.
This latest accolade adds to Leader Chuck Systems' continual success in the International Machine Tool Industry Awards, having been adjudged an Outright Winner in 2000 and Highly Commended in 2002.
Mando Adapt and Jaw Adapt transform a standard collet chuck into a mandrel for internal workpiece gripping (Mando Adapt), or into a jaw chuck (Jaw Adapt) that enables larger workpieces - up to almost double the diameter - to be held securely by the same chuck body.
Compared with conventional separate chuck set-ups for multi-turning tasks, Mando Adapt and Jaw Adapt effectively provide users with a three-in-one lathe workholding system to cover all eventualities at relatively lower cost, as well as vastly reduced changeover times.
Suited to use with the ultra-accurate Hainbuch collet chuck, both systems maintain the high clamping accuracy for which the Hainbuch system is renowned - guaranteed within five microns TIR.
Both products are easy and quick to implement; after removing the chuck's collet, both Mando Adapt and Jaw Adapt accurately locate via a central location/locking screw and tapered ring mechanism.
To revert to normal collet operation, the screw is simply released and the collet re-inserted ready for action.
The chuck body remains untouched and in the machine at all times, which contributes greatly to the systems' high concentricity.
Mando Adapt is currently available for 65mm Hainbuch Combi Pull Back chucks, giving a mandrel clamping range of 20mm to 100mm diameter.
Soft mandrels can also be supplied, which users can machine to suit their specific requirements.
As its name suggests, Jaw Adapt converts a collet chuck into a jaw chuck, enabling a 65 mm chuck, for example, to accommodate workpiece diameters of up to 120mm.
Following removal of the standard Hainbuch collet, the chuck collet acts as three master jaws, with serrations aiding location accuracy and stroke adjustment of Jaw Adapt, location is again via the central screw.
Jaw Adapt is available for 42mm, 52mm and 65mm Hainbuch Combi Pull Back collet chucks, and standard Jaw Adapt soft jaws can be bored out by users.
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