TPT May 2011

OCTG & P ipeline M anufacturing SMW-Autoblok big bore chucks for OCTG application

SMW-Autoblok Spannsysteme GmbH – Germany Fax: +49 7542 405 181 Email: sales@smw-autoblok.de Website: www.smw-autoblok.de

SMW-Autoblok Spannsysteme GmbH, a manufacturer of workholding solutions in Germany, has updated and completed its range of chucks for oil country tubular goods (OCTG). The inventor of the original Big Bore Type BB chuck offers a large product portfolio to cover all applications from standard API or premium pipe to fully automatic machining of couplings in one operation. Open centre chucks up to 560mm through hole for pipe threading and hydraulic indexing chucks for couplings up to approximately 18" are now standardised. Straight or bent pipe can be clamped for threading by utilising either self centre or compensating jaw chucks. The innovative Big Bore Type BB-FZA 6 jaw sequence chuck with three integrated centring jaws and three compensating clamping jaws, incorporated in the same chuck body, allows a fully automatic clamping sequence for pipe of any quality. Associated couplings can be machined in only one set up by using the new SMW- Autoblok hydraulic ring indexing chuck Type

SF-RAZ. Cutting the thread of both sides of the coupling in one set up guarantee outstanding concentricity and quality. Robust design with long lifetime and long service intervals minimise the customer’s machine downtime. Quick clamping cycles, large jaw strokes and high gripping forces

ensure safe and economical clampingofallOCTGproducts. Various sizes of each chuck model can be supplied as a standard. Therefore, the need for expensive special chucks with long delivery times is eliminated. SMW-Autoblok offers worldwide turnkey solutions and service to improve the productivity and the product quality of the customer’s pipe plants. The brand new catalogue ‘Chucks for Oil Country Tubular Goods’ is available on request now.

The Big Bore Type BB-FZA 6

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