OVERVIEW
PROCESS YOUR WAY TO SAVINGS Fixtures and workpieces are easily adapted to UNILOCK clamping knobs. Tremendous savings are available if the fixture or workpiece can be reoriented or transferred to machine additional features while remaining attached to the UNILOCK clamping components. On horizontal machines with columns, fixtures can be rotated 90 degrees or moved to the top. Transferring fixtured parts through as many operations as possible eliminates additional fixtures and clamping/unclamping time. Less clamping and unclamping of parts also reduces scrap and improves feature-to-feature accuracies.
TRANSFER WORKPIECES BETWEEN PROCESSES • Vertical machining cells • Horizontal machining cells • High-speed drilling and tapping centers
• Surface and cylindrical grinding cells • Horizontal and vertical lathes • Coordinate measuring cells
Once you grab the part, use UNILOCK to send it to as many operations as possible without removing the part from the fixture. UNILOCK positions and clamps from one face, leaving the other faces available for machining. Rotary tables, angle/sine plates and multi-sided tombstones facilitate part reorientation for subsequent operations.
The user can expand the operational envelope of any UNILOCK chuck by adding external timing features and support for the portion of the workpiece or pallet that falls outside of the top of the chuck.
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