Workholding

Rigid mechanical and magnetic clamps are fine for most industrial gripping and positioning.

The Slic Pin (for Self-Locking Implanted Cotter) secures and self-locks through an implanted plunger (locking detent) that functions as a self-contained cotter pin.

New configurable locating pins for jigs and fixtures eliminate the need for engineers to draw custom pins and have them machined in-house or outsourced, saving considerable time and expense.

The DPZ-plus three-finger sealed centric gripper meets IP67 requirements for protection against contaminants.

Smart Gripper 2.0 is designed for laboratory use and features robotic finger positioning, adjustable grip force, and requires no proprietary software or controllers.

Two larger sizes of low-profile T-Handle toggle clamps, in steel or stainless steel, are now available.

The six-finger O-Ring Gripper ORG 85 fits O-rings to shafts and in holes.

The Fixturing/Workholding CD covers products and services, links to complete online catalogs, CAD models, company overview and video, and contact information.

Kurt Self-Centering vises have a unique jaw adjustment feature for quickly matching centerlines in multiple vise setups thereby reducing setup time.

The 2-Finger Angular Gripper Type LMG 64 is designed to Hygienic Design requirements of the food-handling industry.

The addition of analog sensors to pneumatic grippers gives new intelligence about the health and well being of automated processes.

EGN 100 is a two-finger parallel-type and EZN 64 is a three-finger centric-type gripper.

HGDS grippers from Festo Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y. (www.festo.com), use a semirotary vane actuator to control a parallel gripper, letting the compact unit grip and turn.

The PZV 4-finger concentric gripper for industrial and automation tasks handles cylindrical workpieces palletized in a grid.

A new Workholding Solutions brochure provides an overview of a wide variety of workholding options. It includes descriptions of modular components, self-aligning fixture elements, grids, force cartridges, tombstones, locating systems, and high-density workholding systems.