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KURT'S NEW 'HD' 8-STATION MANUAL AND HYDRAULIC TOWERS PROVIDE RIGID PART HOLDING, SMALL FOOTPRINT FOR ALL MACHINING CENTERS
21 March 2005 - Kurt Manufacturing Company
| Kurt's HD CarvLock™ manual and hydraulic towers feature quick-change machinable jaws that mount on a ductile iron base. These towers provide strength, rigidity and long term accuracy and are ideal for the full range of horizontal machining centers including the smallest versions. Because of their compact size, they also work well on vertical machines that are equipped with indexers. |
Clamping stations on the manual tower model produce approximately 5556 lbs. of clamping force at 70 ft lbs. of torque with repeatable clamping to .001 inches. The hydraulic model produces up to 7800 lbs. of clamping force. Both models are easily converted from manual to hydraulic or vise versa. For the hydraulic version, all hydraulic components are housed within the vise and tower body to conserve valuable space on the machine table. As the most compact, high density vise tower system introduced to date, the HD CarvLock manual tower model is just 16.875 inches high (428.62 mm) and comes on 300, 400, 500 or 630 mm bases. These small footprints reduce spindle travel, part to part, maximizing throughput without compromising holding accuracy. Additional features include: adjustable preloaded movable jaw for fast part loading on the manual version, fast and easy jaw removal, enclosed vise body keeps out chips and contaminants -- makes cleanup fast and easy. Both manual and hydraulic Kurt HD CarvLock towers come with quick change, machinable jaw block system that includes four sets of 7075 T-6 aluminum jaw blocks or four sets of ductile iron jaw blocks (1.73 inch standard thickness, 2.50 inch optional thickness and a fixture plate).
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About: Kurt Manufacturing Company
History of Kurt Manufacturing1947 - Founded by Kurt Kuban, father of current president and owner Bill Kuban
1950's - Introduction of the "Kurt Vise", the industry leader in precision workholding solutions
1960's - Kurt Manufacturing is positioned as a major supplier to the burgeoning disk drive industry and other high tech industries
1970's- Kurt's success with business partner relationships grew Kurt into an industry leader in contract manufacturing
1980's - As part of a vertical integration strategy, acquisition of several businesses complimenting the existing corporate capabilities - acquisitions include:
Two screw machine facilities; one in Minneapolis, MN and one in Lyman, NE
Summit Gear - a precision gear manufacturer in Minneapolis, MN
Strite Anderson - an aluminum die cast facility in Fridley, MN 1986 - Kurt introduces the Kurt Check, an SPC software and hardware package. Kurt Electronics is the premier custom manufacturer of SPC data collection systems, modular gaging systems and inline gaging systems. 1987 - Kurt opened a second precision machining facility in Pueblo, CO in support of Colorado's high tech industry, with the addition of impact extruding as a new capability 1990's - Kurt Manufacturing's continued quality journey through implementation of the following processes which are the basis for our current quality policy: 1996 - Dyna Fab (tube bending) and Theradyne Healthcare were acquired to further expand into the healthcare market
1998 - Development of Kurt Kinetic Trainer
2003 - Development of Kurt Hydraulics
2003 - Development of Kurt Chipmunk
2004- Manufacturing partner for Delta Hawk
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