Machinery & Equipment

Guill Tool announces a new design for its high-production rotary models, both inline and crosshead style.  A 2X increase in speed, with models running to 1000 RPM depending on the application, are now available in the Guill line of patented rotating tip & die designs.  By rotating the tooling in relation to the material flow, a rotary head increases the wall strength of an extrusion, thereby allowing a thinner wall with less material and the corresponding cost savings for the user.   Typical applications for rotary heads include medical and multi-lumen tubing plus various high-end extrusions with interlocking layer or multiple striping requirements.  

Wickert Maschinenbau has developed an extremely compact, setup-free multifunctional gripper for the handling of multilayer stacked or chaotically deposited components with layer separation.
The system is available with two different gripper types: A group of two to six fingers picks up work pieces and lifts them out of the transport container. As soon as one layer has been completely emptied, the separation sheet is removed by three close fitting, extendable vacuum suction elements on the gripper arm. The system is then able to access the next level of components.