Clamping Equipment
Clamps - Case/Feed Through
Case clamps are clamping devices that will take a complete cabinet, when being assembled and pressed together to square the cabinet. It will be left in the clamp until the glue cures or it has been stapled or screwed together.
Case clamps come in a couple of different formats. Manual case clamps are either hand or air operated. Case clamps usually stand vertically from the ground, are not very deep but are normally quite long (16-20’ long) and stand about 7-8’ high. They have cylinders, normally air operated, that are set to the approximate size of the cabinet. Once the cabinet has been placed into the clamp a foot pedal or button is activated and the clamps come in and force the loose parts of the cabinet together.
Cylinders are normally on the top and one side of the case clamp. Some case clamps are double acting, in plain words, they allow two cabinets to be placed in the clamps at the same time so that one can be worked on while the other is drying. In this case the cylinders would be on top and two sides, while the sides would open and close manually to accommodate the size of cabinet.
There are also electronically controlled case clamps which have a conveyor feed which automatically brings the incomplete cabinet into the clamp where a magic eye reads the size of the cabinet as it goes into the machine. This now presets the cylinders as opposed to the manual system. The clamps come down electronically and will press for a certain pre-programmed cycle time and then release; once completed, the cabinet will come out on the other side of the conveyor.
MANUFACTURERS OF THESE MACHINES INCLUDE:
Activa, Comil, Hess, Hofer, Italpresse, Manea, Ramarch, Uhling.
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