Floyd Automatic Tooling has innovations to show at three forthcoming Open House events

The company will have a presence at the Citizen/Miyano event from the 8 to the 10 October, the Tornos Technology Event from 15 to 17 October and the Star Micronics Open House (www.stargb.com), which is held over three days from Tuesday, 22 October to Thursday, 24 October. Floyd Automatic will be demonstrating a number of new innovations that will be fresh from EMO, alongside some established and successful product ranges. From a cutting tool perspective, the established and productive new TRIO-Line of turning tools from Applitec will be underlined. With the new TRIO-Line, the Swiss tooling specialist has created a cost-effective range of inserts for precision grooving and fine turning that deliver exceptional rigidity for outstanding performance. Applitec has developed a unique insert, using its classic 'ridge' clamping technique that features three teeth on the surface that lock the insert into position with a similarly ridged toolholder. This drastically improves clamping strength, with three protrusions on the toolholder mating perfectly with the insert. Beside enhancing rigidity for productivity and surface finish enhancements, the design allows three cutting edges on a triangular insert for improved cost and productivity per insert. Also on show Applitec's innovative TOP-Line 700-JET turning toolholders, which accommodate high pressure coolant. The new coolant-fed toolholder for the TOP-line turning range delivers coolant directly to the cutting edge to improve tool life, productivity and surface finishes, courtesy of its ability to clear swarf. The 700-JET series is available in left- and right-hand toolholders for both 730/740 series and the 750/760 series inserts. Also on view will be the new Mowidec-TT spindle centring system is a spindle centring system that enables users to perfectly centre tools on the main or counter-spindles to improve accuracy, performance and tool life on Swiss automatic lathes. When changing the set-up or settings on an automatic lathe, operators frequently have to re-centre the spindles, usually with a dial test indicator. While this can be achieved in a number of ways, the process is so restrictive that operators often prefer not to do it at all - resulting in poor quality, precision and premature tool wear. With the Mowidec-TT, centring is carried out without removing either the guide bush or the tools. It is conducted without any complicated equipment or training and is said to be so simple that users start centring systematically, thereby benefitting from enhanced tool life and productivity.