NEW AUTOMATIC BAR LOADING MAGAZINE FEEDERS FEATURE UPGRADED DESIGN

Edge Technologies offers the FMB Turbo 2-20 and MiniMag 20, Automatic Bar Loading Magazine Feeders designed for feeding round, square and hexagonal bar material into CNC lathes. Quick change polyurethane guide channels allow for quiet operation at high RPM while feeding round, square or hex bar stock. These feeders are compatible with all types of sliding or fixed, CNC or CAM operated lathes with spindle bores up to 24 mm. The robust design of the Turbo?s main beam and support stands are resistant to bending, this keeps vibration from bent bars to a minimum, so a smooth operation is guaranteed.

Double-pusher space-saving design on the Turbo 2-20 is 28 in inches shorter than single pusher design of the MiniMag 20.
The Turbo 2-20 and MiniMag 20 feature an Omron controller with a servo motor drive to the feed mechanism. Flexible control of bar length and rate of feed guarantee the optimum practical and economic use of the bar feeder. Easy options on the operator control panel guarantee proper interaction between the bar feeder and the CNC lathe, with parameters clearly shown on the text display.
Both of these FMB Turbo models are equipped with a headstock synchronization device allowing rapid backward/forward movements on sliding headstock lathes without forward feed pressure from the bar pusher. The result: no bar distortion. The polyurethane guide channels can be changed quickly and easily in about 10 minutes to accommodate multiple bar stock diameters. Oil filled guide channels envelope the stock, providing the ideal guiding system for high RPM turning operations. During this process the rotation of the bar creates a hydro-dynamic effect, centering the bar stock in the channel reducing noise and vibration. The guide channel is securely closed with a toggle lever system while machining bars.

A Bushing Block Steady Rest device on the Turbo guides the bar stock between the bar feeder and lathe. The blocks provide excellent feeding of round or profiled material. Bars are placed in the storage magazine at the side of the guide channel. This area features a loading capacity of 7 linear in. The new bar is automatically positioned in the lathe ready for facing before the first component is produced. Loading time for a 12?bar is 26 sec on the Turbo 2-20 and 17 seconds for the MiniMag 20. Maximum adjustable feeding speed is 600 mm per second and maximum adjustable return speed is 1000 mm per second. The bar remnants are withdrawn to the back end of the magazine and a gripper extracts it out of the collet and deposits it in a remnant basket. The gripping device is used to both insert the new bar into the bar stock collet and to extract the remnant. It is not necessary to chamfer the bar if it is cleanly cut. No adjustment for bar size is necessary ant it is completely ?Self-Centering?. Bar pusher collet changes can be done less than 2 minutes with the ?Pin-On? collet feature.

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