Chucks & Jaws

Hoffmann Group knows that with the growing complexity of production and the increased diversity of components, new challenges in the production process arise for customers. Available from Hoffmann Group USA is the GARANT ZeroClamp system, a highly accurate clamping system for the metalworking industry.

Ball-Grip chucks are used for first operation roughing and/or second operation finishing. The basic chuck is modified to suit machine mounting, the need for coolant and/or air through, and mounting for top tooling, which is designed to a customer's part and machining requirements.

With the new JUMAT 6S 18-20-18, the engineers at JUNKER have once again expanded their proven portfolio. The simultaneous use of three grinding wheels guarantees maximum quality by utilizing a single clamping set up with an extremely short grinding time, according to the company.

The Dream Chuck Stop from Dream Tools Inc. allows end users to machine through a part by providing the clearance for cutting tools to go through the part. According to the company, it is reusable unlike soft jaws and conventional chuck stops.

BIG KAISER announces the introduction of the world's reportedly smallest hydraulic chuck for HSK-E25 machine spindles, thus completing its extensive range of BIG KAISER Super Slim hydraulic chucks. The Super Slim type of hydraulic chucks (HDC) are suitable toolholders for precision finishing processes in confined areas with drills, reamers, ball mills, endmills, diamond reamers and grinding tools.

Kitagawa NorthTech Inc. provides turnkey, custom engineered workholding services. The company also provides design, engineering, workholding manufacturing, assembly, testing, inspection, documentation, installation and training.

Klüber Lubrication offers ALTEMP Q NB 50, a white/beige lubricating paste containing a mineral base oil, a barium complex soap and inorganic solid lubricants. ALTEMP Q NB 50 is used as a universal assembly paste, offering benefits especially in friction points with small to minimum motion under high static and dynamic loads.

The Royal Chuck Stop provides a simple, consistent method for locating short parts in a 3-jaw lathe chuck. The chuck stop enables short parts to project beyond the chuck jaws, providing clearance for facing operations.

MAPAL offers hydraulic chucks specially for tool grinding machines, the HydroChuck Grind-A and the HydroChuck Grind-M. The advantages of MAPAL's hydraulic expansion technology can thus now also be used for tool grinding.

KOMA Precision Inc. introduces a line of high accuracy, high rigidity, energy saving and zero maintenance rotary tables from Tsudakoma. The pictured RBS series (Rotary Ball System) is a 4th axis rotary table series suitable for single-axis VMCs and the TBS series (Tilt Ball System) is a 5th axis rotary table series suitable for dual-axis use on VMCs.

American Workholding Inc. offers Force Gauge, an effective, lightweight, mostly hand-held, direct-reading gauge. It gives an operator, setup man or quality control individual an instant and accurate reading of actual lbs/tonnage force data for many shop floor situations.