TPT January 2009

S traightening & F inishing M achinery

Gear driven straighteners with 8 vertical and horizontal rolls

Shuster-Mettler Corp, USA, is a leading manufacturer of tube, wire, and shaped stock straighteners. The company has developed a series of self-feeding and high-speed straighteners used in the tubing industry to straighten inline or from coils. The Shuster models 2GRS, 3GRS, 4GRS, and 5GRS gear driven tube and bar straighteners do not rotate the material during the straightening process. Instead they use 8 vertical rolls and 8 horizontal rolls to straighten and feed the tubing. The 4-straightener models cover thin wall tubing in OD sizes from 0.125" (3.2mm) to 3" (76mm). The straighteners can be manufactured for speed ranges to meet user requirements up to a maximum production rate of 1,000ft/ min (300m per minute). Machines can also be manufactured to user specified pass-line height. For continuous straightening, a single motor and AC inverter drive is used on all GRS machines. A servo drive is also available on these machines for feeding

precise lengths into a press or other inline equipment. The company also manufactures a complete line of non-powered 2 plane roll type tube straighteners. Twenty-one models are available covering thin wall tubing sizes from 0.045" (1.1mm) to 1.875" (47.7mm) OD. Shuster-Mettler Corp – USA Fax : +1 203 562 8525 Email : vetracer@snet.net Website : www.shustermettler.com  Shuster-Mettler is the manufacturer of a series of tube straighteners, including the 3GRS model

The requested sawing units for the separation of the workpieces are powered with up to 3kW. The most commonly used machining units are milling units, cross- drilling units and undercutting units. Wolf Maschinenbau AG – Germany Fax : +49 71 35 93 6 98 66 Email : inge.peters@wolf-maschinenbau.de Website : www.wolf-maschinenbau.de  A range of products can be finished using operations including turning, undercutting, thread cutting, slotting, cross-drilling and non-cutting forming

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