TPT September 2007

Technology Update

The company has also introduced a new 60mm diameter range, extending its catalogue to include diameters from 60mm to 800mm. The smaller diameter pipes, known as ‘vacuum cleaner pipes’, are designed to cover the areas of exhaust air ducting and dust removal for work place cleaning in explosion protection areas. The most common applications for Jacob pipe systems are bulk material handling, dust extraction and exhaust air units for environmental engineering (cooling air/ exhaust air). With wall thickness ranging from 1-3mm, the company’s steel pipes are produced using primed, galvanised or stainless steel. Applications include the food industry, tobacco industry, chemical, pharma- ceutical, plastics and glass industries, automobile manufacturing, concentrated feed plants, the chip industry, machine construction and paper and building materials industries.

Complete tube punching and piercing solutions

Multicyl Inc, Canada, provides advanced solutions for tube punching and piercing. The company’s products cover a range of applications, whether one hole size or multiple hole sizes, one or two sides, clean or dimpled, and shaped or round. An example of Multicyl’s range is a mandrel punching station used to punch multiple clean holes up to 18" from the end of a shaped tube. Interchangeable punch and die sizes allow for a complete product line to be punched. The company’s 3 cylinder adjustable punching station punches 1-3 holes per hit in a 4" diameter tube. The company has a complete line of standard tube piercing solutions, allowing for an easy ‘building block’ approach – stations and tooling can be added, removed or changed easily. Tooling can be removed and interchanged with standard unitised tooling such as Unittool or Unipunch, for added versatility.

Multicyl can also custom-design tube pierce tooling to suit user requirements, eg a custom mandrel punching tool with a double punch design and custom gauging to achieve multiple offset holes in adjoining walls of 1 / 8 " wall 2.5" square tubing.

Multicyl Inc – Canada Fax : +1 905 951 0672

Email : punch@multicyl.com Website : www.multicyl.com

Pull-ring connection for pipe system installation

Jacob Pipe Systems, Germany, has launched a new earthing bridge for both initial and retro-fit installation of pipe systems. Using the Jacob pull-ring connection, installation is achieved in a few easy steps, and existing systems can be retro-fitted without welding. The earthing bridge provides electrical potential equalisation in galvanised and stainless steel pipe systems.

Fr Jacob Söhne GmbH & Co – Germany Fax : +49 571 9558 160

Email : post@jacob-rohre.de Website : www.jacob-rohre.de

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