WCA May 2011

Wire bending, straightening & forming equipment

AIM on target with new 3D bender

Cometo’s wide range of devices

Founded in 1983, Cometo has established itself as one of the most competitive suppliers in the wire and cable industry. In the field of straightening, Cometo offers a wide range of devices: ESM110 is a technologically advanced wire straightener for metal wire stretching or straightening, equipped with an automatic rollers position control system. The lower row or grooved roller is fixed, and the upper rollers are adjustable and can slide on hardened guides thanks to screws connected to a gearmotor. The epicyclic gear inlet shaft is aligned with the outlet one, that at its turn is aligned with the upper rollers’ adjusting screw. The brushless motors assembled on this model have enough torque for the mechanical frictions in order to stretch the wire or straighten it properly. During the working process the motors are constantly fed in order to hold the rollers position without using brakes. The ESM model can store up to 100 recipes which include positioning of each roller, wire stretching percentage and related tolerance. This equipment is suitable especially for cold-rolled ribbed profiles, having diameters up to 20mm. In the domain of spring and screw production, where straightening accu- racy is needed, Cometo offers a special straightener, the ASM/ADM, a sturdy straightener manufactured with centesimal tolerances, with quick locking and release device and adjustable on both rows of rollers to ensure a proper wire straightening. A simpler model is the AS/AD, adjustable only on one row of rollers, with quick opening system and available also with CAW rollers with double bearings circle which can bear heavy loads. Suitable especially for wire mesh production, thanks to the minimum space necessary for its installation, another model that is part of Cometo production range is the D type with quick scissor-opening system. Cometo di Tocchetti Enrico & C snc – Italy Fax : +39 341 260 927 Email : info@cometo-italy.com Website : www.cometo.eu

❍ The new Synchro Bender from AIM

AIM has introduced a new 3-dimensional machine with extended bending capabilities: the ‘Synchro Bender’. The most sophisticated 3D CNC wire bending solution available, featuring a turret tool changer with three satellite mandrel benders, offers the least forming limitations (Patent pending). The pre-loaded graphics animation allows for programme/data verification before even running a single production part. Part of an automation cell, along with a Fanuc robot, it can provide the best production solutions for today’s challenging market. In all instances, wire can be fed directly from a coil, straightened, bent and cut using a software package that provides flexibility and simplicity in programming. This comes complete with a 2-plane straightener, 2,000 kg automatic payoff unit, maintenance-free servo quad-roller feeder, precision bender axes, unlimited arm (Z-Axis) rotation, industrial PC running Windows ® XP Pro and SmartEditor ® . Headquartered in the USA and with a second location in Europe, AIM manufactures a broad line of wire bending machines, from below 2mm to over 20mm diameters. AIM can analyse customers’ wire and/or tube bending needs by providing a full production proposal, including guaranteed production rates with unmatched accuracies and repeatability.

AIM Inc – USA Fax : +1 630 458 0730

Email : info@aimmachines.com Website : www.aimmachines.com

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Wire & Cable ASIA – May/June 2011