What is Multislide?
What is Multislide?
A four-slide, also known as a multislide, multi-slide, or four-way, is a metalworking machine tool used in the high-volume manufacture of small stamped components from bar or wire stock. The press is most simply described as a horizontal stamping press that uses cams to control tools.
What is Fourslide setup?
A fourslide is a machine used to form small stamped components out of wire stock or coils of steel. The slides are driven by four shafts that form the perimenter of the machine. The shafts are connected together with gears, so that one motor will drive all four shafts.
How does a four slide machine work?
The shafts are connected by bevel gears so that one shaft is driven by an electric motor, and then that shaft’s motion drives the other three shafts. Each shaft then has cams which drive the slides. This shafting arrangement allows the part to be worked for four sides, which makes this machine extremely versatile.
What is deep draw stamping?
Deep Drawn stamping is a process of forming flat metal into a die to make precise, usually cylindrical shaped components. This is accomplished by feeding a coil of flat metal into a press with stations of tooling, each performing a repeating operation on the metal.
What is slide manufacturing?
Multi-slide stamping is a metal forming process that shapes and bends sheet metal to create the ideal shape for the part. The die functions like a cookie-cutter for metal with a workstation for each task necessary for completing the components.
What is a machine slide?
Machine Slides Machine slides, or machine tool slides, are linear slide mechanisms used in automated machinery to push, pull or position equipment.
What is cupping and deep drawing?
Deep drawing (cupping) is a manucfacturing process used to create deep, seamless och round shapes from sheet metal. When deep drawing, a tool (called a plug) punches sheet metal into a die. The sheet metal takes the same shape as the tools, commonly a round shape with a radius and depth.
What are stamping tools?
Stamping — also called pressing — involves placing flat sheet metal, in either coil or blank form, into a stamping press. In the press, a tool and die surface form the metal into the desired shape. Punching, blanking, bending, coining, embossing, and flanging are all stamping techniques used to shape the metal.
What simple machine is a slide?
inclined plane
The slide is an inclined plane.
What is box way CNC?
The box way CNC lathe allows customers to slide the partial load envelope by simply reducing the fast pace. Consequently, a CNC box way lathe is always preferred when the application requires a rigid machine with a high weight capacity.
What is drawing and deep drawing?
Deep drawing is a sheet metal forming process in which a sheet metal blank is radially drawn into a forming die by the mechanical action of a punch. The process is considered “deep” drawing when the depth of the drawn part exceeds its diameter. This is achieved by redrawing the part through a series of dies.
What is tube drawing process?
Tube drawing is a process to size a tube by shrinking a large diameter tube into a smaller one, by drawing the tube through a die. This process produces high-quality tubing with precise dimensions, good surface finish, and the added strength of cold working.
How does a multi slide stamping machine work?
Rather than moving in an up-and-down motion, as with punch presses, multi-slide and four-slide machines work at right angles, allowing tooling to access the metal from many directions and stamp or bend the metal from multiple sides — either sequentially or simultaneously — in order to produce bent or twisted items.
How are multi slide and four slide stamping used at Keats?
At Keats Manufacturing, we make use of both multi-slide and four-slide manufacturing to produce structurally complex small metal components. Unlike other traditional processes, four-slide stamping and multi-slide stamping techniques can produce complex shapes and bends at highly cost-efficient prices.
Why are multi slide presses used in manufacturing?
Because multi-slide presses can be so easily modified and redesigned, they are well-suited to tooling refinement, or micro-tooling, which can greatly increase production volume while reducing overall costs.
What’s the difference between a four slide and a multi slide?
Often used interchangeably, “four-slide” and “multi-slide” bending/stamping are essentially the same thing, with the difference being that multi-slide machines feature an adjustable radial forming bed with multiple moving slides, where four-slide machines have only four fixed sliding tools.
