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CUBES
Features and Advantages:
• Fits directly to machine pallet with no need for further machining.
• Safe load/unload outside machine.
• Base and faces finish machined.
• Strong construction and integral base providing dimensional stability and capacity for arduous work.
• Easier machine set up and programming.
• Permanent datums and interchangeable fixture plates (available as an option).
• Probe the cube, not the component.
Range of Options Available
• Cube
• Tee Bracket
• Angle Bracket
• Extended Tee Bracket
• Cruciform
• Hexaform (special)
• Triform • Window (special)
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To support and complete the Gerardi Modular Workholding System a more and more strategic and important role is played by the range of Modular Tubstones and Sub-plates.
They are manufactured in the most different shapes and versions, anyway always provided in one solid cast iron cast G30 and with double stress relieving heat treatment. Just recently they are available in Aluminum too.
The shapes available are the following:
Square cubes
Rectangular cubes
Crank-webs
Angles
Plates and subplates
Shelves
On specific request
As versions and finishing following types are manufactured:
Rough milled cast irons (5mm stock)
Rough milled cast irons with tailor-made base face
Finished Tombstones, accuracy ±0,01mm
Tumbstones for modular plates
Grid Tumbstones with calibrated holes and solid threads
Grid Tumbstones with Ø12 or 16mm hardened bushings and elicoils in inox steel
Grooved types
Taylor made
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Utilizing proven technologies, we can develop a solution for your milling process.
ITW Workholding has utilized both its core products as well as newly engineered designs to address the needs of its customers, as they relate to static machining processes.
Tombstone Fixtures
- Hydraulic - 3000 to 5000 PSI
- Pressure Maintained with Accumulator
- 2, 4 or 6 Sided Tombstones Available
- Modular Component Designs
- For Horizontal Machining Centers
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TOMBSTONES
The use of prismatic type workholding, brings all of a machine’s axes into play - and each pallet can be loaded with the maximum number of components.
Chevin Tools offers a wide range of prismatic workholding; all made from cast iron to provide both strength and increased damping capability.
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Each FMS vise can be vertically assembled thanks to extra keys on the base and with the use of a purpose base plate to be ordered extra (Art.827). FMS vises could be back to back or side to side or cross assembled. By the way, FMS jaws never stick out from the base.
Of course solid Multilfex visecubes bodies for Horizontal Machining centres could be also supplied as standard items, which offer the possibility to reduce the number of set up given that, they allow to machine workpieces not only on the front side, but also on their lateral sides during the same work cycle.
Specifically designed for Horizontal machining centres are cubi morsa Vise Towers or Vise Cubes: a solid structure allows, with the max rigidity, to get, in a vertical way, all the types and options already seen horizontally.
In such way all six sides of a typical prismatic workpiece can be machined in only 2 clampings. All this also increases the accuracy of the operations.
Of course even single Multiflex vises can be vertically assembled with proper reference points and supports. Vertical Machining Centres can be equipped with dividing tables in order to get the same result too (lateral sides operations).
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FRESMAK TOMBSTONES AND CUBES
Fresmak produces cubes and tombstones for horizontal machining centres for the vices ARNOLD mat and ARNOLD twin in there different versions and sizes. The standard items are:
for the ARNOLD mat in sizes 090, 125, 160 and 200:
- Duo Base Plate
- Double Duo Base Plate
- Cube 4x90º
for the ARNOLD twin in sizes 090 and 125:
- Duo Base Plate
- Double Duo Base Plate
- Cube 4x90º
This items can also be made as per customers indication.
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GibbsCAM TMS (Tombstone Management System)
Tombstones are a very productive means for machining multiple parts, greatly extending the time a machining center can run without operator intervention. GibbsCAM TMS (Tombstone Management System) streamlines multi-part setups to move more material through a machine tool while dramatically reducing the overall time required to create error-free machining processes.
Is it more efficient to keep the tool in the spindle and index around the tombstone or would it be better to finish all operations on one face of the tombstone before indexing to the next? GibbsCAM TMS makes it easy to try a variety of strategies to find the optimal strategy for any group of parts.
Perfect for lean manufacturing environments, or for job shops that want to implement lean principles, tombstone machining automates the output of a continuous flow of parts. The simplest strategy is to arrange the same part across multiple locations and sides of a tombstone and machine them one after the other by simply repeating the CNC program. With each rotation of the tombstone, a fresh group of parts is presented for machining.
With only a few mouse clicks, parts and their associated fixtures are located on the tombstone. GibbsCAM TMS offers numerous options for automatically arranging parts on a tombstone face with the choice of duplicating the same configuration on all faces of the tombstone or creating custom configurations for each face.
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