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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2011 65
H&S Engineering has 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
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 :
Website:
Launch of the Cable Count
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Engineering
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
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
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/m2,
enabling direct galvanising or other
metallic or plastic coatings.
Decalub – France
Fax: +33 1 60 20 20 21
Email:
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