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Workholding - miscellaneous clamping systems, components
News Release from: Thame Workholding | Subject: Lang products and Vac-Mat at MACH 2008
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 February 2008
Vacuum mats hold machined work pieces
fast
Two vacuum workholding fixtures consist of a disposable rubber mat with individual suckers that hold the component flat, while machining can penetrate it without reducing clamping efficiency.
Thame Workholding will be showing the full range of Lang products at the UK's MACH 2008 machine tool show, as well as displaying its range of chucks, jaws, and vacuum fixtures for standard and special applications There will also be an adhesive clamping system
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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* Vacuum mats - Vac-mat and Metapor are just two of the vacuum workholding fixtures being shown by Thame.
Vac-Mat is a disposable rubber mat with a series of individual suckers that hold the component flat.
Machining can penetrate the mat without compromising the clamping efficiency.
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It is ideal for the machining of the very thin materials found in electronic applications, and enables parts to be securely clamped without distortion.
* Adhesive clamping system - an innovative adhesive clamping system is activated by light and it will bond most materials providing high fixing strength.
Visitors will need to go to Thame's stand to get details of this new approach to workholding.
* Lang systems - the Lang Makro Grip allows users to securely hold a billet on just 3mm of the material with 20 tonf of force, thanks to the precise contoured indentations formed in the material by the stamping device.
Lateral alignment can be within +/-0.02mm, ensuring repeatability and easy loading.
Improved access to the material makes the system ideal for 5-axis cutting, said Thame to manufacturingtalk.com, minimising the chance of a collision, while the small clamping area saves costly wasted material.
Also on the stand will be the Lang Eco Tower.
This unit provides a cost effective way of automatically feeding pallets to a machine tool, using gravity.
A powered elevator raises pallets to the top of the spiral slide, where they queue for loading into the machine.
Increased productivity and out of hours working made possible with the Eco Tower, can significantly reduce cost per part.
As well as its range of standard hard and soft jaws and special designed jaws to suit customer's applications, Thame Workholding will be displaying its range of quick change jaws, which can be switched in less than one minute.
* About Thame Workholding - with a history dating back to 1946, Thame Workholding specialises in all types of innovative workholding equipment.
The company is unique in the UK in that most of its products are designed and manufactured at its ISO 9001/2000 accredited factory in Buckinghamshire.
Thame Workholding has representation in Germany through its subsidiary company HWR Spanntechnik, as well as reseller partners worldwide.
The company also distributes workholding and automation products from Lang Technik throughout the UK and Ireland.
In addition to the distribution agreement, both companies collaborate on product development and technological innovation.
* Thame Workholding at MACH 2008, NEC, Birmingham, UK, April 21-25, Hall 5, Stand 5017.
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