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Top face operated chucks expanded to 500mm
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Leader Chuck Systems product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Jul 20, 2004
A top face-operated concentric clamping chuck system range that enables chucks to be grouped closely together has been extended to larger diameters - up to 500mm.
Birmingham, UK-based workholding specialist Leader Chuck Systems has expanded its award-winning MultiChuck MMY top face-operated concentric clamping system range by adding the larger chuck sizes of 200mm, 250mm, 300mm 400mm and 500mm to the existing 80mm, 100mm, 125mm and 150mm chucks.
The winner of the Best Workholding Product at the International Machine Tool Industry Awards, MultiChuck MMY brings a host of advantages to the self-centring of round parts on vertical and horizontal machining centres, milling machines and grinders - not least rapid clamping and short set-up times.
This is courtesy of a simple top face operation that enables more chucks, and therefore workpieces, to be 'banked' closely together - which is not the case with the traditional side face lock/unlock strategy.
Available with two or three jaws, MultiChuck MMY combines fast initial jaw travel with controlled second-stage clamping to provide a large jaw opening with high gripping force.
Able to fit all slotted machine tables, MultiChuck MMY is suitable for external and internal clamping, and satisfies both first and second operations in the same machining cycle - thereby providing continuous output of finished components for JIT supply.
Long jaw strokes across the range, coupled with low height, maximises the machine's Z axis (height can be increased using blocks).
Quick change top jaws can be supplied to suit most materials/components.
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