WCA September 2011

Technology news

Launch of the Cable Count

number of targets for Cable Count. Apart from high levels of accuracy, we wanted to design a machine with a good range of adjustment in terms of cable diameter and operating height and angle.” Cable Count joins another recently introduced machine at H&S that is for hose and tube pricking. Again with the industrial market in mind, it makes use of rollers to guide the tube through the pricking head. This innovation allows for efficient set-up on a wide range of tube diameters. Cable Count sales and after-service in Europe and North America will be fulfilled directly by H&S Engineering, whilst sales in Asia will be through Aerocomp Precision Engineering, an AIV Group company in Bangalore, India. H&S Engineering Impactbond Ltd – UK Fax : +44 1553 769151
 Email : enquiries@hs-engineering.co.uk Website : www.hs-engineering.co.uk

H&S recently launched the Cable Count, a new cable, wire and conduit measurement machine. “Cable Count™ has been developed to satisfy a long-standing demand for more efficient mechanical measuring devices,” said John Stitchman, managing director of the Norfolk, UK-based company which provides precision engineering and fabrication services in the food, medical devices, printing and energy sectors. Cable Count utilises an innovative and proprietary roller box design to smoothly deliver the cable to the measuring head to aid accuracy. It also uses a rack and spur gear arrangement and gas struts to assist in height adjustment. H&S developed Cable Count after extensive research and development, and will support customers with a robust marketing and after-sales service campaign. Andrew Howard, chief engineer in charge of research and development for Cable Count, added: “At the start of the R&D process, we set out a The BHW system incorporates new technology which enables normal plant water to be converted into a unique ‘micro-abrading liquid’ agent used for cleaning of drawn wire, in-line, at high speed, at virtually zero energy consumption, providing extra-clean wire. Basically, it is a sensitive multi-layer displace/fine scrub/flush cleaning system, benefiting from water immersed high density ultra-fine brush bristles performing as porous long-life abrading pads that smoothly impact wire surface separating lubricant residue from base material, washing away dispersed contaminants by moving wire, exiting the unit clean of white-metal appearance. The BHW system provides the ultimate combination of simplicity and effectiveness: acid-free, caustic-free, without ultrasonic, without chemicals. Economical and environmentally friendly, the system provides significant process savings in production of clean H/C and L/C wires. The BHW wire Engineering has

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process is inappropriate, especially with wires drawn upon severe conditions resulting in increased heat and burned lubricant tightly bound to the wire surface and embedded in microscopic cracks. The BHW system cleans drawn wire from lubricant residue in applications prior to heat treatment or coating, including galvanising, annealing, patenting, plating, welding (chain, mesh), painting, plastic coating, Al or Cu cladding, etc. In a typical application, the 2.6mm (0.102") drawn wire is cleaned in-line at 12m/s (2,400ft/min) with 5 x BHW units, obtaining a very clean wire with remaining residue of 0.1-0.21g/m 2 , enabling direct galvanising or other metallic or plastic coatings. Decalub – France Fax : +33 1 60 20 20 21 Email : info@decalub.com Website : www.decalub.com

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cleaning system is used in the most demanding applications, allowing the highest cleaning speed, with all carbon steel wires (including 0.90%), mechanically descaled or acid cleaned, bare or pre-coated, drawn with calcium or sodium lubricants. The BHW system is particularly recommended for cleaning applications in which a conventional

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