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Chucks and collets for rotational work
News Release from: Pratt Burnerd International | Subject: Large bore four-jaw independent chuck - MACH 08
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 May 2008
Four-jaw large bore independent chuck
introduced
Among a range of large chucks which gives the user minimum set-up times and maximum gripping force Prat Burnerd has introduced a large bore four-jaw independent chuck.
Pratt Burnerd International (PBI) showed a large bore four-jaw independent chuck at the UK's recent MACH 2008 machine tool exhibition The chuck is an extension of the company's range of large bore power chucks (up to 1.2m diameter bore) and manual chucks (up to 2m diameter bore)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Working with the latest CAD technology, Pratt Burnerd has designed a range of ingenious large chucks which gives the user minimum set-up times, maximum gripping force and weight/size capability combined with ease of use.
Introduced last year in response to demands from customers, particularly those in the oil industry, take up has been such as to justify extending the range.
The range has been designed and is being manufactured at the company's 5,000m2 plant in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK.
A substantial investment of over GBP 700,000 has been made in additional machine tools alone to provide the additional capacity needed for the production of the large bore chucks.
Director/general manager of PBI, David Tucker, said: "We aim to be a one-stop shop for cost effective, high quality collets, chucks and workholding systems.
To meet this end, we have enhanced our range by the addition of a number of new products and by extending some of our existing ranges.
This will enable customers to source anything from a simple one off collet to a complex, specially designed and built workholding mechanism from the one company, giving them assured quality and support, easier purchasing, and simplified asset management.
We are well placed to achieve our aim because design and manufacturing is at our own site".
With over 150 years experience of supplying accurate, productive, high quality workholding to the machine tool and manufacturing industries, the Pratt Burnerd range includes the following.
* Scroll chucks.
* Independent chucks.
* Three- and four-jaw chucks.
* The novel Pratt Burnerd 2+2 chuck.
* 'Superthin' chucks.
* Innovative Programmable Power Chuck (PPC).
* The Self-Contained Power Chuck (SCPC).
* Radio Frequency Gripmeter (RFG).
The latest catalogues show the broad range of standard collets, chucks and workholding systems and can be downloaded from the company's web site.
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